New York help?

[Vick The Lick]

OK so this is probably a home run for John from NY, but what the heck, I'll throw it open to everyone lol...

I'm gonna be in NYC in a couple weeks and will need to get from Manhattan to JFK Airport. What's the quickest, most cost effective way of doing it? (Obviously I could do it by cab but I'm not hot on snaking through the roads and the likely high charge they'll whack on me).

What's the transport option? I know Newark has great links into Manhattan (i.e. a direct coach service). Does the same exist for JFK or am I looking at subways and trains?

Any help appreciated. :)

[john271]

Vicky,

I am in the travel business (cruises) and have a contact who I tell my clients taking cruises from NYC and it is a private car. Feel free to let me know if you would like the number or if John from NYC will get this done for ya. Speaking of cruises, when are we going to have a Vicky members only short cruise? :)Get a bunch of Vicky and her galpals, my fellow roomies to get away for a short cruise? Imagine the fun on the high seas guys

John

OK so this is probably a home run for John from NY, but what the heck, I'll throw it open to everyone lol...

I'm gonna be in NYC in a couple weeks and will need to get from Manhattan to JFK Airport. What's the quickest, most cost effective way of doing it? (Obviously I could do it by cab but I'm not hot on snaking through the roads and the likely high charge they'll whack on me).

What's the transport option? I know Newark has great links into Manhattan (i.e. a direct coach service). Does the same exist for JFK or am I looking at subways and trains?

Any help appreciated. :)

[John_fromNY]

Feel free to let me know if you would like the number or if John from NYC will get this done for ya.

Haha John - I'm not in the City.. I live on Long Island, in the County of Nassau, which is next to the counties of Queens and Brooklyn...

So Vick the Lick - you want to come here for a visit? That's nice.

To go from Manhattan to JFK Airport? ---

You have to start in Manhattan - Go into Brooklyn - then into Queens -

Taxi cabs are very expensive possibly expect to pay between $125 to $150 or more plus tip... You can take a bus too, not as bad but the time schedule runs at various points, and it could be very difficult to catch a bus at an off hour .

Most subway lines don't run into Queens..

The 8th Avenue Subway - the A (Express) is the best bet -- Though both, the A and C lines, run from Manhattan into Brooklyn then into Queens. The A line is the best alternative...

If you take the A (Express) take it from Penn Station (Manhattan) - the last station stop in Manhattan is the Broadway/Nassau Street station - However stay on the subway don't get off ... take it into Brooklyn - the last station stop in Brooklyn is the Grant Avenue station - However stay on the subway don't get off ... take it into Queens - the last station stop is the Rockaway Boulevard station ... The A line splits at that point...

(1) You'll need to take the southern tier... The Far Rockaway line ... being the first station stop .. the Aqueduct Racetrack/North Conduit Avenue station .. The next station stop is The Howard Beach/JFK Airport station - you'll need to then take the Port Authority shuttle bus - it's free - from the subway station to the Airport.

(2) However if the subway takes the northern tier ... the Lefferts Boulevard line ... you've gone the wrong way - just so you know - these stations are the 104th Street/Oxford Ave.. the 111th Street/Greenwood Avenue... and lastly the Lefferts Boulevard station... The A subway line ends.

However all is not lost...

As you can always take a taxi cab from any of the northerly tier stations to JFK Airport... the fare would not be out of reach or expensive.

Some telephone numbers:

New York City Transit Authority

MTA subway travel information - (718) 330-1234
Metrocard Information - (212) 638-7622

from outside NYC on Metrocards 1-(800} METROCARD

Website: http://www.mta.info

Let me know how you do...

[WalterB]

http://www.mta.info...

Vick, beware the MTA. :lol:

I changed the words a bit below to fit Vick. The guy was Charlie and it happened in Boston. Story is that, when the Boston MTA raised the fare, they didn't want to install all new fare boxes, so they decided to let the riders get on for the original fare, then collect the extra when they got off. Poor Charlie went to work with only 10 cents in his pocket. While riding, they increased the fare, so Charlie didn't have the extra nickle to get off. (The song doesn't explain why his wife didn't hide a nickle in his sandwich before she threw it through the open window, or, why he didn't have return fare to get home from work teehee.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIaicLSSH4

Spoken:
These are the times that try men's souls. In the course of our nation's history, the people of Boston have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened. Today, a new crisis has arisen. The Metropolitan Transit Authority, better known as the M.T.A., is attempting to levy a burdensome tax on the population in the form of a subway fare increase. Citizens, hear me out! This could happen to you!

(Eight bar guitar, banjo introduction)

Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named Victor on a tragic and fateful day.
He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family, went to ride on the M.T.A.

Chorus:
Well, did he ever return? No, he never returned and his fate is still unlearned.
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of New York. He's the man who never returned.

Victor handed in his dime at the Kendall Square Station and he changed for Jamaica Plain.
When he got there the conductor told him, "One more nickel." Victor couldn't get off of that train.

(Chorus)
Well, did he ever return? No, he never returned and his fate is still unlearned.
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of New York. He's the man who never returned.

Now, all night long Victor rides through the station, crying, "What will become of me?
How can I afford to see my sister in Chelsea or my cousin in Roxbury?"

(Chorus)
But, did he ever return? No, he never returned and his fate is still unlearned.
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of New York. He's the man who never returned.

Victor's wife goes down to the Sculley Square Station every day at quarter past two,
And through the open window she hands Victor a sandwich as the train comes rumblin' through.

(Chorus)
Well, did he ever return? No, he never returned and his fate is still unlearned.
He may ride forever 'neath the streets of New York. He's the man who never returned.

(Banjo Chorus)

Now, you citizens of VickyVille, don't you think it's a scandal how the people have to pay and pay?
Fight the fare increase! Vote for George O'Brien! Get poor Victor off the M. T. A.

(Chorus)

Or else he'll never return, no, he'll never return, and his fate is still unlearned.
He may ride forever through the streets of New York, he's the man who never returned.
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man who never returned.
Ain't you, Victor?
walt

[John_fromNY]

Haha Walter - yes Boston has one of those as well. It's called the Boston Metopolitan Transit Authority too... Heehee... A very good and appropriate song the Kingston Trio's "MTA", hey Walter was that you singing with the green beard...lol!!

About the NYC MTA: We could show Vick the Lick that scene from Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Vincent Schiavelli (yes the great character actor who just passed away recently - boy, it's been almost two years at Christmas time, where did the time fly to) ... Anyway, where Patrick, new as a ghost, learns to move things; newspapers, trash containers, and coins by using his mind. Vincent, the expert, teachs him all that and how to move and jump from moving subway cars.. Of course, they have a falling out when Patrick says he jumped and Vincent says he was pushed!!

Or

We can scare the hell out of Vick the Lick by showing that NYC subway scene from Death Wish where Charles Bronson, as Paul Kersey aka the vigilante, shoots the subway robber who tries to cut up his newspaper with the switchblade knife, while he's looking and browsing at the paper. Then he proceeds to go out and wipe out all the thugs, drug crazed weirdos, and creeps who try to mug him sporatically through out the film. He eventually is stopped by Vincent Gardenia as Detective Frank Ochoa, in the St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital room. Tells him "to get outta New York for the best, no ifs, ands, or buts"...so he's off to Chicago, pointing is finger at the purse snatcher at the end...

Interesting movie 1974's Death Wish.....

(1) This film was one of the first character roles for Jeff Goldblum, later of The Big Chill and The Fly , as one of the freaks that rapes Bronson's daughter, Kathleen Tolan. And rapes and kills Bronson's wife, Hope Lange, as the "Gristedes delivery boys". That is a grocery store in NYC ...Both are very scary and violent scenes...

(2) Another actor getting his start, is Christopher Guest, - yes Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap you don't recognize him as Patrolman Jackson Reilly as it is a serious dramatic role. He finds Kersey's gun off in the bushes after he kills the last of the thugs in the park...This is where Bronson is moved to the St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital emergency room.

Both Death Wish and Ghost had two great Italian-American actors named Vincent. Vincent Gardenia and Vincent Schiavelli...

Yes Walter, you may say how do I remember all this?? ... I do get into my movies a whole lot!! :lol:

[rokkerr]

Quickest way of getting to Manhattan from JFK...... private helicopter..... or if you are flying Virgin they will include a limo if you are in first class.... and no I have not done either.... poofters

[Donor]

You guys just reminded me why I have only been to NYC one time.

[WalterB]

Wassamatta, Donor? No guts for the MTA???? joystick walt lmao

[John_fromNY]

Quickest way of getting to Manhattan from JFK...... private helicopter..... or if you are flying Virgin they will include a limo if you are in first class.... and no I have not done either....

Vick the Lick said cost effective... private helicoper or limousine precludes that... unless he's Donald Trump or Steven Tyler....