Brooklyn is the easy part. The crossing is the job.

At a glance

The short version, before the detail.

Coverage

The whole of Kings County: Greenpoint and Williamsburg down through Downtown Brooklyn, Park Slope and Sunset Park to Bay Ridge and Coney Island.

Ways to book

Point to point, by the hour, airport transfers and the Red Hook cruise terminal. Groups of up to fourteen in one vehicle.

Hourly minimum

Four hours, up to sixteen in one booking, with the chauffeur waiting between stops.

Wait time

15 minutes at a kerbside pickup. 60 minutes on an airport arrival, from the moment you land.

Availability

Every day, including holidays. Book at least 24 hours ahead where you can.

If plans change

Full refund 24 hours or more before pickup. Half back between 12 and 24 hours. Nothing inside 12.

Tolls on a crossing

The three East River bridges carry no toll. The Hugh L. Carey Tunnel and the Verrazzano do, and either appears on the quote at cost.

Congestion charge

Brooklyn is outside the zone. A journey ending on a local street at or below 60th Street in Manhattan enters it, and the charge is quoted with the fare.

• Barclays Center

  620 Atlantic Avenue

  Atlantic and Flatbush meet at the door, which makes the kerb outside the slowest place in the borough after a show. We name a pickup a street or two off the plaza and you are moving while the crowd is still on the pavement.

• Brooklyn Museum and Botanic Garden

  Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue

  Two entrances on the same parkway, with the service road the only place a car can genuinely wait. Say which of the two you are at and the chauffeur is at that door rather than at the junction between them.

• Prospect Park

  Grand Army Plaza to Parkside Avenue

  The park drives are closed to traffic, so every pickup is on a street around the edge or at a named gate. Grand Army Plaza is a roundabout rather than a kerb, so we use the streets off it.

• Brooklyn Academy of Music

  Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene

  More than one auditorium a short walk apart, finishing at different times. Tell us which one and the car is timed to your curtain rather than to the building.

• Downtown Brooklyn and Borough Hall

  Court Street and Cadman Plaza

  The courts, the civic buildings and the offices around them, on streets where the standing rules change block by block. A named cross street beats a building number here every time.

• Industry City

  Sunset Park, off Third Avenue

  A run of converted warehouses with courtyards between them and more than one way in. Give us the building number and we pull up to that one instead of leaving you to walk the block.

• Green-Wood Cemetery

  Fifth Avenue at 25th Street

  Gates on more than one side and quiet roads inside. For a funeral we hold the car at the gate the party is using and move with the party, not with a schedule written the night before.

• Coney Island and the boardwalk

  Surf Avenue, southern Brooklyn

  No cars on the boardwalk, so a pickup is on Surf Avenue or a side street off it. Summer weekends fill the whole approach, which we allow for rather than promise around.

• The Belt Parkway

  Bay Ridge round into Queens

  The shore road, and the way to JFK from most of the borough. Quick when it is clear and short of useful exits when it is not, which is why the airport time on this page is a range.

• The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

  Bay Ridge to Staten Island

  Tolled, and the way towards Staten Island and New Jersey without going through Manhattan. The toll is added to the quote at cost, the same as any other.

Ways to book in Brooklyn

Three formats cover everything we do here, and every one is quoted before you confirm.