Thirteen miles long, and every block priced the same way.

At a glance

The short version, before the detail.

Coverage

The whole island: Financial District and Battery Park City up through Midtown, the Upper East and Upper West Sides, Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood.

Ways to book

Point to point, by the hour, and airport transfers to JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty. 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.

Congestion charge

A per-trip charge applies below 60th Street. It is quoted with the fare and passed through at cost, like any toll.

The island, from the kerb

Not a list of what to see. A list of what each place does to a car: where it can stop, when the street is closed, and which side of the building to be on.

• Central Park

  59th to 110th Street, Fifth Avenue to Central Park West

  Cars cross it on the transverses at 65th, 79th, 85th and 97th. The park drives themselves are closed to traffic, so a pickup is always on an avenue, never inside.

• The Theater District

  Broadway, roughly 41st to 54th Street

  Curtain down empties forty theatres onto the same eight blocks at once. We meet you a street or two clear of the marquee and you are moving in minutes rather than twenty.

• Museum Mile

  Fifth Avenue, 82nd to 105th Street

  North of 60th, so outside the congestion zone. Fifth Avenue runs one way downtown, which decides which corner the car waits on.

• The High Line and Hudson Yards

  Gansevoort Street to 34th Street

  An elevated park with stairs at intervals and a car park at neither end. Pick your access point when you book and we will meet you at the foot of it.

• Madison Square Garden

  4 Pennsylvania Plaza, above Penn Station

  Twenty thousand people leave in ten minutes, into the block that also holds a railway station. A pickup point two streets away is the difference between leaving and queuing.

• Wall Street and the Financial District

  South of Chambers Street

  Narrow, old streets with security closures that move. Battery Park City and the West Side Highway edge are where a car can reliably stand.

• The Battery and the ferries

  The southern tip of the island

  Statue of Liberty and Staten Island ferries both leave from here. Sailing times are fixed and the security queue is not, so we build in more than you think you need.

• Lincoln Center

  Columbus Avenue at 63rd Street

  Three halls with three different finishing times on the same plaza. Tell us which one and we will time the car to your curtain, not the campus.

The airport run from Manhattan

Give us the flight number and the pickup follows the aircraft. Every arrival includes 60 minutes of wait time.

Drive times are typical, not guaranteed. Traffic, weather and roadworks all move them, which is why we watch the flight instead of the clock.

Ways to book

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

Manhattan is where most of our journeys start or end, but not where they stop.

• BrooklynBrownstone Brooklyn to the Red Hook cruise terminal, with the bridges, the BQE and both airports part of the daily round.
• The BronxRiverdale to Throgs Neck, the Stadium and the Botanical Garden, with every bridge and parkway known by heart.
• QueensThe borough both airports sit in, from Astoria to the Rockaways, with JFK and LaGuardia closer than from anywhere else.
• Staten IslandSt George to Tottenville, by the Verrazzano or the Goethals, whichever the traffic favours on the day.
• Long IslandNassau and Suffolk, from the Queens line to Montauk, door to door in either direction.
• WestchesterThe river towns, the Sound Shore and the corporate corridor, with Metro-North and HPN both close.