Getting In and Around New York City

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As one of the world's busiest and most populous capitals in the United States, New York City enjoys a good number of connections - through air, land and sea, such that travelling to the city can be fairly easy wherever your place of origin may be.

By Plane. The city has the busiest airspace in the United States and to serve the hundreds of millions of travelers that go in and out are three major airports in New York City: the John F. Kennedy International (JFK), Newark Liberty International (EWR) and the La Guardia Airport (LGA). JFK is in the Queens borough and is a major international hub for airlines such as Delta, American Airlines, Air France and Lufthansa, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. Newark Liberty International is located in Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey. One of the three terminals in this airport is home to Continental Airlines. Meanwhile, LGA or La Guardia Airport mostly provides domestic services for the city. All three are being administered and managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

By Land. There are several options for travelling into New York City - by train, by commuter rail and by bus. Amtrak has its largest hub in the east-coast system in the New York Penn Station. It provides regular commuter service between major points on the East Coast from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, with convenient stops at Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Haven and Providence. Other points of service include Chicago, California, New Orleans, Miami, and to Toronto and Montreal in Canada.

Meanwhile, there are three commuter rail lines serving New York City: the Long Island Rail road (LIRR) which basically serves points in Long Island but has stops at Jamaica Station, Hunters Point, Queens and Atlantic Terminal Station in Brooklyn; the Metro-North Rail Road has service to points in Westchester, Putnam, Duchess Counties in New York as well as Connecticut; and the New Jersey Transit which, like the LIRR, operates from the New York Penn Station but services to points in New Jersey. All these commuter rail lines also offer transfers or connecting services to either the airport or the train station.

Travelling by bus to and from New York City has its share of advantages - they can be cheap if booked well in advance, tickets can be booked through wifi or outlets, and with more bus lines sprouting, the service stops across New York City are also increasing. Traditional stop for most buses remain at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. "Chinatown" buses, so called because they mostly stop in Chinatown, are said to have the lowest walk-up fares. Other bus lines include Boltbus, Greyhound, Megabus, NeOn, Peter Pan Bus Company, New Century Travel and Tripper Bus to name a few.

By Sea. A ferry system connects Manhattan to various areas within and outside the city. The Staten Island Ferry runs between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan and is considered the busiest ferry in the United States.

Getting around New York City is fairly easy - most people take the extensive New York City Subway which is still by far the best and most convenient way to travel around the city. If you plan on renting a car to drive around, you may want to think twice about it because traffic in the city is always congested and safe parking is an expensive privilege. Of course, the healthiest alternative is to walk and New York residents are known to walk everywhere.

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