Manhattan
A chauffeured sedan, SUV or Sprinter van anywhere in Manhattan — point to point, or held for your day. Reserved in advance, with the rate agreed before you book.
Manhattan is thirteen miles long and, in most places, about two miles wide, and almost none of that is designed to make driving easy. Avenues run one way. Crosstown traffic moves at a pace that surprises people who have only seen the island on a map. Curb space is regulated block by block and enforced in earnest. Whatever the distance suggests, the time it takes is decided by the hour of day and the direction you are going.
What a chauffeur removes is not the traffic. It is everything around the traffic. You are dropped at the entrance rather than several blocks from a garage. You are not making a decision about where to leave a car in a city where that decision is expensive and often wrong. And at the end of the evening, the vehicle comes to you instead of you going looking for one.
We work across the whole island, from the Financial District to Washington Heights, and out to Brooklyn, Queens and the airports.
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Manhattan is not one destination. Where you are going changes the route, the timing and often the vehicle.
Corporate offices, hotels, Grand Central and Penn Station. The densest traffic on the island and the tightest kerbs.
Wall Street, Battery Park City and the Seaport. Narrow streets and restricted vehicle access in parts.
Residential addresses and the museums along Fifth. Crosstown access is the constraint, not distance.
Columbus Circle north to Morningside Heights, Lincoln Center and Columbia.
Downtown addresses with narrow cobbled streets where drop-off points need agreeing in advance.
Galleries, the High Line and the Hudson Yards edge.
Above 110th Street, reached more easily from the north than through the centre of the island.
The newest corporate district on the West Side, and the easiest Manhattan arrival from New Jersey.
The Part Nobody Explains
This is the question we are asked most often, and it is usually asked by someone standing on a pavement wondering where their car has gone.
Manhattan kerb space is regulated block by block. A vehicle cannot sit outside a restaurant, a theatre or an office building waiting for a passenger to come out. What a chauffeur does instead is drop you at the entrance, move the vehicle to wherever it is legal to be, and return when you call. On a point-to-point booking that means the car is released after drop-off. On an hourly booking it means the chauffeur stays nearby and comes back to your door.
Which is why, for an evening with more than one stop, hourly is not the expensive option — it is usually the one that works. Three separate point-to-point bookings across a night in Manhattan frequently cost more than the same hours booked outright, and every one of them involves waiting for a car to arrive.
A single journey from one address to another, quoted as a flat rate. The right choice when you know both ends of the trip and there is nothing in between — an airport run, a transfer to a meeting, a ride home after dinner.
Quoted per trip
The vehicle and chauffeur held for a booked period, with you directing where they go. The right choice for several stops, an uncertain finish, or a day where you would rather the car waited than be re-booked.
3 hour minimum · sedan and SUV
5 hour minimum · Sprinter van
Describe the day when you request a quote and we will tell you which works out cheaper for what you have described.
An executive sedan handles most Manhattan work and moves through traffic and kerbside stops more easily than anything larger. A full-size SUV is the better choice when luggage rather than passengers is the constraint, or in winter weather. A Sprinter van is for groups — and on Manhattan streets, keeping fourteen people in one vehicle rather than three is the difference between arriving together and arriving across half an hour.
| Vehicle | Passengers | Checked bags |
|---|---|---|
| Executive sedan | 3 | 2 |
| Full-size SUV | 6 | 5 |
| Mercedes-Benz Sprinter | 14 | 10 |
Some downtown addresses have narrow street access where a Sprinter is impractical. Tell us the destination when you book and we will say so rather than discover it on the day.
See the Full FleetA large share of our Manhattan work starts on the other side of the Hudson. The crossing is the part that decides the timing: the Lincoln Tunnel for Midtown and the West Side, the Holland Tunnel for downtown, the George Washington Bridge for Upper Manhattan. Hudson crossings are tolled eastbound only and appear on your invoice at cost.
The return matters as much as the journey in. Booking both legs together means you are not standing on a Manhattan pavement at midnight arranging a ride home.
Flying out of Newark instead? Our sister service handles every Newark Airport trip — see Newark Airport transportation.
Longer than the distance suggests, and it depends entirely on the hour. Crosstown travel is the slow direction at almost any time of day, while moving up or down the island on an avenue is usually quicker. We build realistic timing into the plan rather than quoting a best case.
Not on a point-to-point booking — Manhattan kerbs are regulated and a vehicle cannot sit waiting. On an hourly booking the chauffeur stays nearby and returns to your door when you call, which is what makes hourly the right structure for a day with several stops.
Frequently the opposite, on days with three or more stops or significant waiting between them. Describe the day when you ask for a quote and we will tell you honestly which costs less.
Manhattan at and below 60th Street sits inside New York's congestion relief zone. Any charge applied to the vehicle for entering it is passed through on your invoice at cost, in the same way tolls are. It is set by the operating agency rather than by us.
Yes. Tell us the hotel and we will agree the pickup point when you book — some Manhattan hotels have a designated vehicle entrance rather than a main kerb, and knowing which in advance saves time.
Yes, both boroughs, along with JFK and LaGuardia and the cruise terminals.
A day or two is comfortable for a weekday sedan. Sprinter vans, weekend evenings and event nights should be booked as far ahead as possible, because availability rather than price is the constraint.
Waiting allowances, fees and cancellation windows: Rates & Policies
Tell us the trip and we will confirm a rate in writing. The reservations line is answered around the clock.