A working manual for eight bad miles.

LaGuardia is closer to Times Square than any other airport serving New York — and harder to leave than either of the others. There is no train to the terminal, the taxi has no flat fare, and the cheapest option is a free bus most visitors never hear about. This site exists to settle that, line by line.

LGA → Manhattan is a single-corridor reference: every realistic way from the LaGuardia curb into Manhattan, with the real 2026 fare, the honest time off-peak and at rush, the transfers, and the catch on each one. It is a manual, not a booking engine — we do not sell tickets, take commissions, or rank operators for pay.

Who publishes it

It is published by Marine Air Press, the trade name of East Elmhurst Transit Atlas LLC, based in East Elmhurst, Queens — the neighborhood the airport sits in. The name is a nod to LaGuardia's 1939 Marine Air Terminal, the Art Deco rotunda built for Pan Am's flying boats and still standing at the airport's western edge. We are a small independent desk; we write under a house byline rather than personal ones because the work is reference, not opinion. We are not affiliated with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, the MTA, or LaGuardia Gateway Partners.

How we work

Every number here is grounded in a public source — MTA fare schedules, the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission fare rules, Port Authority guidance, and the MTA's Congestion Relief Zone tariff — and re-checked each fare cycle. When figures change, the bulletin says so and the date moves. Read the editorial standards for the specifics, and the corrections log for anything we got wrong.

Questions or fixes: desk@lgatomanhattan.com.