Midtown Manhattan Taxi & Car Service

Midtown is where most visitors to New York spend their first night and where most business trips begin. Yellow cabs are plentiful here, which is exactly why people are surprised when one will not stop at 5pm in the rain, or cannot fit four people and their suitcases.

A prearranged taxi solves the moments a street hail does not: a hotel departure at 4:30am for an early flight, a group of six leaving a Broadway show, or a client who needs to be collected from a specific entrance rather than whichever corner a cab happens to pass.

Where we pick up in Midtown

Times Square and the Theater District — the pedestrian plazas on Broadway and Seventh Avenue mean no car can stop in the middle of the square. We collect on the side streets between 44th and 48th, or on Eighth Avenue, and tell you the exact corner.

Grand Central and Midtown East — Vanderbilt Avenue, Lexington, Park Avenue hotels such as those around 49th and 50th, Turtle Bay and the United Nations on First Avenue, Sutton Place and Beekman Place.

Penn Station, Herald Square and Koreatown — Seventh and Eighth Avenue exits, Moynihan Train Hall on Eighth Avenue at 31st, and 32nd Street between Fifth and Broadway.

Hudson Yards and Hell's Kitchen — the Vessel and the Shops on Tenth Avenue, the High Line's northern end, the Javits Center on Eleventh Avenue, and the restaurants along Ninth.

Midtown Center — Rockefeller Center, Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 59th, Bryant Park, the Garment District and Murray Hill.

Trains, subways and ferries

Grand Central Terminal serves Metro-North's Hudson, Harlem and New Haven lines, and Grand Central Madison below it now runs Long Island Rail Road trains. Penn Station and Moynihan Train Hall handle Amtrak, New Jersey Transit and the LIRR — tell us which hall you are in, because they are a long block apart.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street is the hub for intercity and commuter coaches, and PATH trains to Jersey City and Hoboken start at 33rd Street. Almost every subway line crosses Midtown; the 7 runs crosstown under 42nd Street.

Popular taxi trips from Midtown

Taxi to JFK, LaGuardia and Newark

From the west side of Midtown, Newark through the Lincoln Tunnel can take no longer than JFK, and sometimes less. From the east side, LaGuardia is almost always the quickest airport. Add generous time on weekday afternoons, when the tunnel approaches back up well before the entrances.

Traffic, tolls and timing

Congestion pricing. All of Midtown is inside the Congestion Relief Zone below 60th Street. Trips that start, end or pass through it carry the charge, and it is included in your quote rather than added later.

Crosstown streets. 42nd, 57th and 34th Streets are the slow ones. A driver will often go up or down an avenue to reach a quieter crosstown block. UN General Assembly week each September closes parts of First Avenue and the East 40s; holiday season around Rockefeller Center and Fifth Avenue slows everything from late November to early January.

Broadway theatre letting out between roughly 10pm and 11pm floods the side streets from 44th to 49th. Meet your driver a block west on Ninth Avenue and you usually leave ten minutes sooner. For a dinner-and-show evening with the car waiting, see Manhattan limo service.

Places we drive to

Broadway theatres, Madison Square Garden above Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall at 57th and Seventh, the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street, the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library at Bryant Park, the Javits Center for trade shows, and the headquarters hotels that line Park, Lexington and Sixth Avenues.

Book a taxi in Midtown

Send the hotel or building name as well as the street address: many Midtown towers have entrances on two streets, and the name tells the driver which one. For a show, give the theatre and the curtain-down time. Choose an Economy Sedan for a simple ride, an executive sedan for a business pickup, or a taxi van when the whole group is leaving together.

Use the form, WhatsApp or (888) 201-0419, with the hotel, theatre or tower name alongside the street address. Your first ride with us can carry 10% off your first ride.

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