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For $2.25 you can ride the M-60 public bus (there are limited luggage facilities on some buses) to 106th Street and Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. From there, you can transfer to the subway to head to your destination. Alternatively, you can take the Q-48 bus to the Main Street subway station in Flushing, where you can transfer to the 7 train. Allow at least 90 minutes for the entire trip to Midtown.
Transfers from Newark Airport
Taxis to Manhattan cost $50–$70 plus tolls ($8) and take 20 to 45 minutes. “Share and Save” group rates are available for up to four passengers between 8 am and midnight—make arrangements with the airport’s taxi dispatcher. If you’re heading to the airport from Manhattan, a $15 surcharge applies to the normal taxi rates and the $5 toll.
AirTrain Newark is an elevated light rail system that connects to New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains at the Newark Liberty International Airport Station. Total travel time to Penn Station in Manhattan is approximately 20 minutes and costs $15. AirTrain runs every 3 minutes from 5 am to midnight and every 15 minutes from midnight to 5 am.
The AirTrain to Newark’s Penn Station takes five minutes. From Newark Penn Station you can catch PATH trains, which run to Manhattan 24 hours a day. PATH trains run every 10 minutes on weekdays, every 15 to 30 minutes on weeknights and weekends. After stopping at Christopher Street, one line travels along 6th Avenue, making stops at West 9th Street, West 14th Street, West 23rd Street, and West 33rd Street. Other PATH trains connect Newark Penn Station with the World Trade Center site. PATH train fare is $1.75.
Coach USA with Olympia Trails buses leave for Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station in Manhattan about every 15 to 30 minutes until midnight. The trip takes roughly 45 minutes, and the fare is $15. Between the Port Authority or Grand Central Terminal and Newark, buses run every 20 to 30 minutes. The trip takes 55 to 65 minutes
Newark Airport Information AirTrain Newark (888/397–4636 | www.airtrainnewark.com). Coach USA (877/894–9155 | www.coachusa.com). PATH Trains (800/234–7284 | www.pathrail.com).
Transfers Between Airports
AirTrain provides detailed, up-to-the-minute recorded information on how to reach your destination from any of New York’s airports. Note that if you arrive after midnight at any airport, you may wait a long time for a taxi. Consider calling a car service, as there is no shuttle service at that time.
Contacts AirTrain (800/247–7433 | www.airtrainnewark.com).
BOAT TRAVEL
The Staten Island Ferry runs across New York Harbor between Whitehall Street next to Battery Park in Lower Manhattan and St. George terminal in Staten Island. The free 25-minute ride gives you a view of the Financial District skyscrapers, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island.
New York Water Taxi, in addition to serving commuters, shuttles tourists to the city’s many waterfront attractions between the West and East sides and Lower Manhattan, the South Street Seaport, and Brooklyn’s waterfront parks. The hop-on, hop-off one-day pass ticket is $20; the two-day pass is $25.
Information New York Water Taxi (NYWT | 212/742–1969 | www.nywatertaxi.com). Staten Island Ferry (www.siferry.com).
BUS TRAVEL
Most long-haul and commuter bus lines feed into the Port Authority Bus Terminal, on 8th Avenue between West 40th and 42nd streets. You must purchase your ticket at a ticket counter, not from the bus driver, so give yourself enough time to wait in a line. Several bus lines serving northern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York, make daily stops at the George Washington Bridge Bus Station from 5 am to 1 am. The station is connected to the 175th Street Station on the A line of the subway, which travels down the West Side of Manhattan.
A variety of discount bus services, including BoltBus and Vamoose Bus, offer direct routes from cities such as Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, D.C., with the majority of destinations lying along the East Coast. These budget options, priced from about $20 one way,