Point to point
One Bronx address to another, or a run into Manhattan, over to Queens or up into Westchester.
One fixed quote for the route, confirmed before you book.
Riverdale down to Throgs Neck, by way of the Stadium, the Garden and the Zoo. Several of the quickest roads here are parkways closed to commercial vehicles, so the vehicle decides the route, and every bridge toll is on the quote before you confirm.
Parkway rules routed around
Every toll quoted at cost
LaGuardia in 25-55 minutes
24/7, holidays included
The short version, before the detail.
Commercial vehicles prohibited
Four of the fastest roads in the borough are parkways, and a parkway in New York is closed to commercial vehicles. That is the road authority's rule rather than ours, and it decides the route before the traffic does.
No commercial vehicles
I-95 and the Bruckner
The quick way north-east towards Pelham, New Rochelle and the Connecticut line, and the road a sedan takes without thinking. A van or a bus goes by the New England Thruway and the Bruckner instead, which is a longer run at the same hour.
No commercial vehicles
Webster Avenue
The north-south road through Bronx Park, and the way most cars reach the zoo's Bronx River gate. A commercial vehicle may not use it at all, so a group arriving at the zoo comes in from Southern Boulevard on the far side instead.
No commercial vehicles on the freeway
Bedford Park Boulevard
The short link between the Bronx River Parkway and Van Cortlandt Park, and the signed approach to the Botanical Garden. In a van we come up Webster Avenue and along Bedford Park Boulevard rather than turn one round at a sign.
No commercial vehicles on the mainline
The service roads either side
The centre roadway from the Hutchinson River Parkway across to Stillwell Avenue is closed to commercial traffic; the service roads on either side are not. That is how a van legally reaches a Morris Park or Pelham Gardens address, and it is slower.
No commercial vehicles · bridge tolled
The Major Deegan
Riverdale's own road, and the direct way into Manhattan from the north-west corner. A van cannot use it, which also rules out the Henry Hudson Bridge, so a group leaving Riverdale comes down the Deegan to a free Harlem River bridge.
Open to every vehicle we run
Interstate 87
The west-side spine, from the RFK Bridge up to the Thruway, and the default road for anything the parkways will not take. It also carries the Stadium traffic, so we read the fixture list before setting a pickup on it.
Open to every vehicle we run
Interstate 95
The east-west crossing to the George Washington Bridge, and for years running the most congested corridor in the country. Nothing runs parallel to it and there is no shoulder, so we build the hour into the pickup rather than promise around it.
Open to every vehicle we run
Interstates 278 and 95
The eastern spine, tying the Deegan to the Throgs Neck and Whitestone bridges. It is the road a van takes towards Queens and the airports, and the one that decides whether LaGuardia is twenty-five minutes away or fifty.
If your booking needs a Sprinter van or a bus, say so when you book. We plan it on roads it is allowed to use from the start, instead of turning it round at a sign.
A sedan or an SUV counts as a passenger vehicle under this rule and takes the parkways freely. A Sprinter van or a bus does not and never will, so the vehicle you choose genuinely changes the road.
Which bridge, and what it costs
The Bronx is the only borough joined to the mainland, and nearly every way out of it is a span. The Harlem River bridges cost nothing. The four that reach Queens and Riverdale do, and the toll goes on the quote at the price the authority charges.
No toll
Third Avenue Bridge
Bronx to Manhattan only
One way southbound, and the free way off the borough by car. It lands at 129th Street with the FDR Drive straight ahead, which is why most of our Manhattan runs leave this way.
Willis Avenue Bridge
Manhattan to the Bronx only
The other half of the same pair, one way northbound off First Avenue. It is how the car comes to you, and the reason the outbound and inbound halves of a booking are not mirror images of each other.
Macombs Dam Bridge
155th Street to 161st Street
The short free hop into Harlem, landing at the Stadium end of 161st Street. Excellent at ten in the morning and the worst place in the borough within an hour of the last out.
The Washington Bridge
181st Street, to Washington Heights
Free, and the link between the Cross Bronx and upper Manhattan. Useful when the Deegan is holding. It feeds the same junctions as the George Washington Bridge, which is neither free nor the same bridge.
Tolled
Henry Hudson Bridge
Riverdale to Inwood
The direct way between the north-west Bronx and Manhattan, and a parkway bridge, so a sedan takes it and a van may not. The toll is passed through at cost like any other.
RFK (Triborough) Bridge
To 125th Street and Astoria
Three boroughs off one interchange, and the sensible road when the destination is East Harlem or Queens rather than downtown. Tolled in both directions.
Bronx-Whitestone Bridge
To Whitestone, Queens
The nearer of the two Queens crossings and usually the quicker one to LaGuardia. Open to every vehicle we run, which is why a group heading for the airport goes this way.
Throgs Neck Bridge
To Bayside, Queens
The eastern crossing, and generally the better one for JFK and for anywhere along the Cross Island. When the Whitestone is holding we take this instead, and we say so rather than sit in it.
A tolled bridge is taken when it is genuinely the faster road, not to pad the fare. Every toll is passed through at the price the authority charges and is never marked up.
The Bronx is outside the Manhattan congestion zone. A journey ending on a local street at or below 60th Street enters it, and the per-trip charge is shown with the fare and passed through at cost, exactly like a toll.
Not what is inside these places. Which gate a car can reach, which street empties all at once, and which corner to be waiting on.
161st Street at River Avenue
Forty-odd thousand people leave within twenty minutes of the last out, into streets that were narrow before they arrived. We name a pickup off the ground, either the Grand Concourse side or Gate 2 at Jerome Avenue and 164th, and leave the Macombs Dam Bridge to everybody else.
2950 Southern Boulevard, Mosholu Gate
The visitor gate is Mosholu, on Southern Boulevard. The car park is the Conservatory Gate at 2900, a short way along the same road and a different queue. Say which one and the chauffeur is at that gate rather than at the other.
2300 Southern Boulevard, Gate C
A separate institution half a mile down the same boulevard, and the one people mean when they name the other. The zoo asks car services to use the Southern Boulevard gate at 185th Street; its Bronx River gate is reached on a parkway a van may not drive.
East Fordham Road at Southern Boulevard
A walled campus with gates on more than one side and a security desk deciding which is open. On move-in and commencement weekends the whole of Fordham Road is a queue, so we set the pickup at a cross street and walk the cases to it.
Arthur Avenue at East 187th Street
Narrow, double-parked and taking deliveries all day. A car cannot hold the avenue itself for more than a moment, so the pickup is a cross street, 186th or 188th, and the chauffeur walks up to meet you.
North-west Bronx, above the Hudson
Steep, wooded and genuinely confusing. Fieldston's streets are privately owned and closed to non-residents one day a year, and house numbers there are rarely visible from a moving car. Give us a corner rather than a number.
One bridge, one avenue
A real island with a single bridge onto it and a single road down the middle. On a summer weekend afternoon the queue starts back at Pelham Bay Park, so we either go early or build the wait into the time and tell you which.
The south-east peninsulas
Quiet lanes that end at the water, most of them without a turning circle at the far end. We work out where the car turns before it goes down, which is the difference between a pickup at the door and a hundred yards in reverse.
Sections 1 to 5, off the Hutchinson
Fifteen thousand apartments on a plan of loops and numbered sections, where the same building number turns up more than once. Give us the section and the building and the car is at your lobby instead of circling the estate.
Norwood and Morris Park
Three large hospital campuses with separate discharge doors and a discharge time that moves by hours. Tell us the building and we hold at that entrance, or wait nearby and come to the door when you are actually ready.
Give us the flight number and the pickup follows the aircraft. Every arrival includes 60 minutes of wait time, and no run from the Bronx is charged at the flat Manhattan rate.
LGA
The closest of the three, over the Bronx-Whitestone or the RFK. Both are tolled and the toll goes on the quote at cost. Priced on the route, not at the flat Manhattan rate.
25-55 min
JFK
Over the Throgs Neck and down the Cross Island, or the Whitestone and the Van Wyck. Which of the two depends on the hour, and we say which we intend to use.
35-75 min
EWR
West along the Cross Bronx to the George Washington Bridge, then down the Jersey side. The expressway sets this number, which is why it is the widest range on the board.
45-95 min
Drive times are typical, not guaranteed. Traffic, weather and roadworks all move them, which is why we watch the flight instead of the clock.
Three formats cover everything we do here, and every one is quoted before you confirm.
One Bronx address to another, or a run into Manhattan, over to Queens or up into Westchester.
One fixed quote for the route, confirmed before you book.
A day with several stops: a match, a hospital round, a graduation weekend, with the car held between them.
Blocks of four to sixteen hours, with the car staying and waiting included.
LaGuardia, JFK or Newark Liberty, with the flight watched and 60 minutes of wait time on every arrival.
Quoted per vehicle for the airport and the address, with the flight watched.
Charged on top
A car service that promises to beat traffic is a car service that will be late and surprised about it.
Vetted, licensed, insured and dispatched to be early. That part is entirely ours, and no road gets the blame for it.
A parkway closed to commercial vehicles is closed to ours too. We route the vehicle you booked on roads it is allowed to use, from the moment the booking is taken.
One expressway carries the whole width of the borough, with no shoulder and nothing running parallel to it. What we can do is build the hour into the pickup instead of pretending it is clear.
The fare is worked out before you confirm and does not move for the weather or the hour. Tolls, parking and the congestion charge are passed through at cost.
A sedan takes two people, two cases and the parkways. A van takes the group and the expressways. Give us the head count and the bag count and the right one is assigned.
The Bronx touches Manhattan, Queens and Westchester, and most journeys that start here end in one of them. These are the pages nearest this one.
If plans change
Full wording is in our terms and refund policy. Terms · Refund policy
Put the two addresses in and the fare, with the tolls, is on the screen before you confirm anything.