Upper East Side Taxi & Car Service

The Upper East Side runs from 59th Street to 96th Street between Fifth Avenue and the East River. Yellow cabs are common on Madison, Park and Lexington, but they thin out toward York and East End Avenues — exactly where several of the city's largest hospitals sit.

Many of our Upper East Side bookings are appointments that cannot be late: a surgery check-in on York Avenue, a school pickup, or an early flight from LaGuardia, which is closer to this neighbourhood than to anywhere else in Manhattan.

Where we pick up in Upper East Side

Lenox Hill — 60th to 77th Street, including the Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue co-ops, Madison Avenue boutiques and Hunter College at 68th and Lexington.

Yorkville — 79th to 96th Street east of Third Avenue, with the Carl Schurz Park and Gracie Mansion end of East End Avenue.

Carnegie Hill — 86th to 96th Street between Fifth and Third, home to many of the private schools whose dismissal times we plan around.

The hospital corridor on York Avenue — NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center at 68th, Memorial Sloan Kettering around 67th and 68th, Hospital for Special Surgery at 70th and the river, and Lenox Hill Hospital on 77th between Park and Lexington.

Trains, subways and ferries

The Second Avenue Subway (Q) stops at 72nd, 86th and 96th Streets. The 4, 5 and 6 run under Lexington Avenue, with express stops at 59th and 86th. The M15 Select Bus runs up First Avenue and down Second, and the M79 and M86 Select Buses cross Central Park to the West Side.

For Metro-North, Grand Central is 15–25 minutes south; for the Hudson and Harlem lines, 125th Street is often quicker from Yorkville.

Popular taxi trips from Upper East Side

Taxi to JFK, LaGuardia and Newark

The RFK Bridge puts LaGuardia unusually close to the Upper East Side, and it is also a reasonable route to JFK when the Van Wyck is moving. Newark is the one airport that is genuinely awkward from here, because every route first has to cross the whole island.

Traffic, tolls and timing

Outside the congestion zone. Almost all of the Upper East Side is above 60th Street. Trips staying uptown, or heading to Queens or the Bronx, avoid the charge; trips continuing below 60th include it in the quote.

The FDR Drive is the fast route south when it flows and a car park when it does not; the driver will choose between it and Second Avenue on the day. Crosstown transverses at 65th, 79th, 86th and 97th Streets are the only ways through Central Park to the West Side after the park drives close to traffic.

School dismissal between about 2:45 and 3:30pm fills the side streets of Carnegie Hill and Lenox Hill. Museum Mile Festival in June and the New York City Marathon in November, which runs up First Avenue, close key streets.

Places we drive to

The Metropolitan Museum of Art at 82nd Street, the Guggenheim at 89th, the Frick Collection, the Neue Galerie, Cooper Hewitt, the Park Avenue Armory, the Asia Society, 92NY for talks and concerts, Hunter College, and the hospitals and medical offices along York, First and Park Avenues.

Book a taxi on the Upper East Side

For a hospital visit, give the building and entrance rather than just the institution name; York Avenue campuses have several. If a patient is being discharged, tell us — waiting time can be planned into the quote. Families often choose a Luxury SUV for school and airport runs with car seats, which must be requested ahead.

To arrange a ride, call (888) 201-0419 or send the details by WhatsApp or the form, including the hospital building or school entrance where relevant. Ask for the first-ride offer on your first booking.

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