NYC Taxi & Cab Service
Metered yellow cabs and pre-booked taxis for everyday trips across the five boroughs.
licensed NYC cab ridesUnmarked executive sedans and premium SUVs. Discreet vehicles for the trips where arriving well is part of the job.
There is a category of trip where the vehicle is part of the message. Collecting an investor from JFK. Moving a client between their hotel and your office. Arriving at a dinner where a yellow cab would be a small, unnecessary note.
Our luxury black car service in NYC covers those trips: unmarked executive sedans and premium SUVs, pre-booked at a fixed rate, driven by someone in business dress who knows which door of the building you actually want.
It is a real regulatory category, not marketing language. Black cars are licensed for-hire vehicles that operate strictly on pre-arrangement — no street hails, ever — and historically served corporate accounts on a subscription basis.
What survives from that history is the presentation. The vehicles are dark, late-model and unmarked. There is no roof sign, no livery, no phone number down the side. Parked outside an office tower it looks like someone's own car, which is precisely the intention.
| Vehicle | Passengers | Luggage | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive sedan | Up to 3 | 2–3 large | Solo business travel, client collection |
| Executive SUV | Up to 6 | 4–5 large | Small groups, heavier luggage, airport runs |
| Extended SUV | Up to 6 | 6+ large | Full-size luggage loads, golf clubs, equipment |
There is no separate SUV page on this site, and that is a deliberate decision rather than an omission. Premium SUVs are part of this service — ask for one when you book. Building a whole page around "SUV service" would be optimising for a search term that barely exists and mostly belongs to people looking to rent or buy one.
The default for an airport booking is a curbside pickup: you land, you walk out, the car is at the designated pickup area.
For clients, guests and anyone who has not flown into New York before, pay for the meet-and-greet instead. The driver parks, walks into the terminal, and waits at the arrivals barrier holding a name board. It costs more — parking at JFK is not free and the driver's time is real — and it removes the single most stressful twenty minutes of an international arrival.
Either way, give us the flight number. We track the arrival, so an early landing or a three-hour delay is handled without a phone call. Sixty minutes of free waiting is included on airport pickups, measured from the actual landing time rather than the scheduled one.
Worth it: client collections, first meetings, airport runs where the passenger is a guest rather than you, anything where the alternative is your client standing at a taxi rank.
Not worth it: your own routine airport run when nobody is watching. A standard NYC car service booking gets you there in the same time for less, in a car that is clean and licensed and simply not as new.
Wrong vehicle entirely: a wedding party, a prom, or any occasion where the point is the spectacle. That is NYC limo service.
Wrong booking shape: a full day of meetings. Four separate black car trips cost more than one hire a chauffeur by the hour booking, and you lose the continuity of the same driver.
We would rather tell you that than take the larger booking.
If you book regularly, ask about an account. Monthly invoicing instead of paying per trip, a named contact who knows your usual routes, and consistent drivers for regular passengers. For firms that move visitors through New York every week, it removes most of the administration.
Fixed rate per route, quoted when you book, including tolls and the driver's gratuity. No meter, no surge, no fuel surcharge appearing afterwards. Waiting time beyond the included allowance is charged in 15-minute blocks at a rate you are told up front.
Check any specific route against a metered fare with the work out what the trip should cost if you want to see the difference before committing.
Call (888) 652-7136 or send the details through the form. For an airport collection, include the flight number and say whether you want curbside or meet-and-greet. For a client pickup, give us the passenger's name so the driver can greet them properly.
Send the details and we come back with one number — no meter, no surge.
Executive pickups anywhere in the five boroughs, and out to Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey on request.
Black car is the premium point-to-point option. These cover the other shapes of trip.
Metered yellow cabs and pre-booked taxis for everyday trips across the five boroughs.
licensed NYC cab ridesReserve ahead at a price agreed up front. The New York default for airport runs.
book a car and driver in New YorkStretch limousines for weddings, proms and events, charged by the hour.
book a limousine in New York CityA professional driver assigned to you for the hour or the day.
hire a chauffeur by the hourRamp-equipped vehicles where the passenger stays in their own wheelchair.
our WAV (wheelchair accessible vehicle) fleetFlying out? Start at NYC airport transfers.
In New York, 'black car' is a specific category of licensed for-hire vehicle: pre-booked only, typically a dark unmarked sedan or SUV, historically serving corporate accounts. The distinguishing features are that it cannot be hailed, it carries no livery or roof sign, and it is dispatched to a named passenger. Practically, it means a car that looks like a private vehicle rather than a taxi — which is the point when it is collecting a client.
The vehicle class and the presentation. A standard car service sends a clean, licensed sedan. Black car sends a late-model executive vehicle — typically a Cadillac, Lincoln, Mercedes or a premium SUV — kept to a higher cosmetic standard, with a driver in business dress. Both are pre-booked and fixed-price. You are paying for how it arrives, not how it drives.
Yes. Meet-and-greet is standard on black car airport bookings: the driver parks, walks to arrivals, and waits at the barrier with a name board. It costs more than a curbside pickup because of parking and the driver's time, and it is almost always the right call for a client who has not been to New York before.
You can, and if the day has more than three or four stops you should — but ask for it as a chauffeur booking rather than a series of black car trips. Hourly pricing works out cheaper than four separate point-to-point fares, and you keep the same driver and the same car throughout.
Completely. No livery, no roof sign, no company branding, no visible TLC plate decal beyond what the law requires. From the pavement it reads as a private car, which is exactly the intent when it is sitting outside a client's office.
No, and deliberately. Premium SUVs are part of this service rather than a page of their own. Ask for an executive SUV when you book if you want the extra room, the higher seating position, or space for three passengers plus real luggage. Same booking, same fixed-rate pricing.