LaGuardia → FiDi
Downtown & the Financial District
Wall Street, the Seaport, Battery Park City and Tribeca.
Best ways here
How to play it
The E from Jackson Heights runs down to the World Trade Center — one transfer, $3, no bridge traffic.
LIRR to Penn, then the 1/2/3 south — fast and seated for most of it.
The longest drive of the corridor (~10–11 mi); a flat quote beats a climbing meter.
Downtown & the Financial District is below 60th Street, so any car you take in — taxi, rideshare or black car — crosses into the Congestion Relief Zone. That adds $0.75 to a yellow taxi, $1.50 to an Uber or Lyft, and the $9 peak toll to a private car you drive yourself. The Q70, M60 and LIRR pay none of it. See the congestion-pricing bulletin.
For the LGA → Manhattan corridor
From the desk
Reading for this trip
Best LaGuardia-to-Manhattan car services in 2026
The black-car operators we'd actually call for an LGA pickup — ranked, with what each one is good for, real phone numbers and no paid placements.
B-011 · faresCongestion pricing and your LGA ride
How the Congestion Relief Zone below 60th Street adds to a driven LGA trip — and quietly changes which mode is cheapest by destination.
More destinations
Other arrivals
Midtown West
Times Square, Penn Station, the Theater District and Hudson Yards.
congestion zoneMidtown East
Grand Central, Murray Hill, the UN and the Plaza District.
congestion zoneChelsea & Union Square
Flatiron, Chelsea, Union Square and the High Line.
congestion zoneSoHo, the Villages & Lower East Side
SoHo, NoHo, Greenwich Village, the East Village and the LES.
above 60thUpper East Side
Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, Museum Mile and Yorkville.
above 60thUpper West Side
Lincoln Center, the Museum of Natural History and Morningside.