JFK · LaGuardia · Newark · Teterboro

Black car service in New York

Twelve miles can take ninety minutes, and the bridge or tunnel chosen is usually the reason.

The Manhattan skyline at dusk, with the Empire State Building

Example all‑in fares Weekday afternoon · Oct 2026

Route	Off-peak	Peak	Sedan	SUV
JFK → Midtown	50–65 min	80–110 min	$247.85	$291.65
LaGuardia → Midtown	30–40 min	60–80 min	Quoted	Quoted
Newark → Midtown	45–60 min	75–100 min	Quoted	Quoted
By the hour	3-hour minimum		from $126/hr (gratuity included; taxes and surcharges added)	Quoted

Weekday afternoon examples from our quote engine, Oct 2026, including the 20% chauffeur gratuity, tolls, parking, airport fees, surcharges and taxes. Your quote is confirmed in writing and held for 72 hours.

The airport access fee and the NY State and MTA congestion surcharges are shown on their own lines and already in the total.

* Hourly: gratuity included; New York taxes and surcharges are added on top.

Sedan: up to 3 passengers and 3 bags. SUV: up to 6 passengers and 6 bags.

Booking in New York

Twelve miles can take ninety minutes, and the bridge or tunnel chosen is usually the reason. The route is decided before the pickup, not during it. Chauffeured sedans and SUVs across New York — three commercial airports, the busiest private field in the country, and the one city where the difference between a good chauffeur and an average one is measured in whole hours. Booked and managed by Executive Black Car, driven by vetted local operators who work these roads every day.

Gratuity and airport fees included
Rate agreed in writing, no surge pricing
Free cancellation up to 2 hours before pickup
Free waiting: 60 minutes at airports, 15 minutes elsewhere

Booking for someone else

With a corporate account, confirmation and chauffeur details go to you and, if you want, the traveller
Cost centre or PO on the invoice, with a corporate account
One monthly invoice across all 27 cities — open a corporate account

Travelling yourself

Meet-and-greet at arrivals; your flight is tracked, so early and late landings are handled
One number, answered 24/7: 1-866-EXEC230

Every operator must hold

Licensed and permitted for the city and its airports
$1M combined single limit, certificate on file naming Karfis Enterprises LLC
Background and driving-record checks, attested
Two vehicle classes, the same in every city

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Choose your trip

Airport transfers

JFK, LaGuardia and Newark — terminals, customs and tracking

Corporate & roadshows

Hourly hire, named chauffeurs and consolidated billing

Private aviation

Teterboro, Westchester, Republic and the Manhattan heliports

Hotel transfers

Midtown, the Upper East Side, downtown and Hudson Yards

Events & venues

Javits, the Garden, Lincoln Center and the Broadway houses

Universities & campuses

Columbia, NYU, Fordham, Cornell Tech and the medical corridor

Airport guide

JFK vs LaGuardia vs Newark: which airport for Midtown, Downtown, New Jersey and Westchester, and how long the ride really takes.

New York airports

John F. Kennedy International (JFK)

Multiple terminals spread around a loop road, with no realistic way to walk between them, so the terminal has to be right before the vehicle moves. We confirm it against the flight number rather than the ticket, because carriers move between terminals more often than passengers expect. International arrivals at JFK routinely take an hour to clear, and we hold the vehicle rather than charging waiting time against a queue nobody controls.

Every terminal · Customs hold · Meet & greet

Airport transfers in New York Live flight tracking

LaGuardia (LGA)

The closest commercial field to Midtown and, since the rebuild, the easiest of the three to work. Terminal B and Terminal C each have their own arrivals level and their own approach road, and choosing wrongly costs a full loop of the airport. LaGuardia is also the most weather-exposed of the New York airports: short runways and no room to absorb delay, so we watch the inbound aircraft rather than the schedule.

Terminal B & C · Closest to Midtown · Weather-aware scheduling

Newark Liberty (EWR)

In New Jersey, which matters more than the mileage suggests. A Newark run crosses either the Lincoln or the Holland Tunnel, and the tunnel is the entire journey — the same trip is forty minutes or ninety depending on when you enter it. For a morning departure out of Newark we will usually recommend leaving earlier than the estimate, and we would rather tell you that at booking than apologise for it later.

Terminals A, B & C · Tunnel-aware timing

Teterboro (TEB) and private aviation

Teterboro is the principal private field for Manhattan and among the busiest general-aviation airports in the United States, with several FBOs operating on it. Westchester County and Morristown handle the overflow and are sometimes the better call depending on where you are staying. For private arrivals we work from the tail number and coordinate with the FBO directly, so an early landing is met on the ramp. Tell us the field and the FBO when you book and we will confirm coverage before you travel.

Teterboro · Westchester County · FBO ramp pickups

Private aviation in New York Tail-number tracking

Where we work in New York

Midtown

Agree a corner, not a building. Where most of our New York corporate work sits — the Plaza District, Grand Central and the Park Avenue corridor. We agree a specific corner rather than a building entrance, which sounds pedantic until the first time it saves you a block of walking in the rain.

Financial District & Hudson Yards

For Newark, downtown beats Midtown. Downtown and the far West Side now function as two separate business districts with two different traffic patterns. Both sit convenient to the tunnels, which is the reason a Newark departure often runs smoother from downtown than from Midtown.

Congestion pricing

The charge is its own line on the quote. Manhattan below 60th Street carries a congestion charge on entry. We disclose it as a line on the quote rather than folding it into the fare or adding it afterwards, and where a routing can reasonably avoid the zone without costing you time we will say so.

Brooklyn, Queens & the outer boroughs

Materially closer to JFK than Midtown. Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO and Long Island City carry real corporate weight now, and all three are materially closer to JFK than Midtown is. A Brooklyn pickup for a JFK departure is one of the more forgiving runs in the city.

Westchester, Connecticut & the corporate corridor

Often better flown via Westchester County. Greenwich, Stamford and the Westchester office parks generate steady executive travel that has nothing to do with Manhattan, and is frequently better served through Westchester County Airport than through the city fields. Long-distance runs up the corridor are quoted per trip.

Typical journey times to and from Manhattan

Distances in New York tell you almost nothing; the crossing does. We quote airport runs with genuine allowance rather than the number a mapping app produces at three in the morning.

Approximate driving times between New York districts and the New York area airports
From	Approx. distance	Off-peak	Allow in peak
Midtown to LaGuardia	9 miles	30–40 min	60–80 min
Midtown to JFK	17 miles	50–65 min	80–110 min
Midtown to Newark	16 miles	45–60 min	75–100 min
Midtown to Teterboro	13 miles	35–45 min	60–80 min
Financial District to JFK	16 miles	45–60 min	75–95 min
Brooklyn (Downtown) to JFK	13 miles	35–45 min	55–75 min

Hotels, venues and campuses we run to

Hotel transfers in New York

Several of the Fifth and Madison Avenue houses have a side-street entrance that works far better than the avenue frontage, particularly between four and seven in the evening when the avenues stop moving. We use it unless you ask otherwise, and we agree the cross street rather than the address.

Events & venues in New York

Javits sits on the far West Side with limited approaches, so a show morning there needs an earlier start than the distance suggests. For MetLife and the outer-borough stadiums we quote the return leg honestly — leaving is always slower than arriving.

Broadway curtains fall within a few minutes of each other and the theatre district becomes impassable immediately afterwards. We stage a few blocks out and come to you on a call rather than sitting in the crush. Hamptons and Hudson Valley runs are quoted per trip and are usually better as a day hire.

Culture, dining and the region

Universities & campuses in New York

The Upper East Side medical corridor along York and First Avenues is dense enough that we confirm the building and the entrance, not the hospital name. Appointment days are better booked hourly — the return time is genuinely unknown.

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