DECEMBER IN MIDTOWN · TREE TO TIMES SQUARE
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All within a few blocks; none with an open kerb outside.
Lit at the start of December, on view into early January; we confirm the date and hours with your booking. At busy times the blocks beside the plaza close to cars, and some weekends close Fifth, so the car meets you on Madison and you walk the windows from Saks to Bergdorf Goodman.
Sixth Avenue at 50th, often several shows a day. The kerb outside is fenced around each one, so a car drops and collects on Sixth below 47th or a side street to the west.
Mini buses for a group outingBryant Park Winter Village fills the park between 40th and 42nd with stalls and a rink; Union Square and Columbus Circle hold the other large markets; the rink beneath the tree and Wollman Rink in Central Park run timed sessions. An hourly car waits nearby while you browse or skate.
Hourly chauffeur serviceThe one night nothing on wheels gets close: closures begin in the afternoon and spread until the area is sealed. A car brings you to the edge early and collects you after midnight from a corner outside the perimeter.
By the hour and the day, not the address.
Weekday mornings have a crowd rather than a crush, so a car waits within a block or two. From early afternoon the crowd holds until the stores close, and December weekends and gridlock alert days are the slowest of the year.
Sixth Avenue below 47th, Madison Avenue and the numbered side streets east of Fifth and west of Sixth usually stay reachable. Fifth itself, and 49th and 50th by the plaza, assume you will walk.
The closures move with the crowd, so the corner is agreed when you book and confirmed the day before in writing, with the chauffeur's name and number.
Midtown's December problem is not distance.
Fifth and Sixth between 42nd and 59th carry the season: the tree, Radio City, the windows and Bryant Park. When the pavements overflow, the crowd is channelled behind barriers and the cross streets at the plaza close, pushing every vehicle onto avenues already at walking pace.
So we stop driving where the walking starts: drop on Madison, collect on Sixth below 47th, route around the perimeter rather than through it, and build the time for weekends and gridlock alert days into the quote.
The 14-passenger Sprinter is what most December groups book; the 7-seat Jet Sprinter suits a smaller family; mini buses and the coach take the office outing.
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A couple, or a visitor with an evening to fill.
Two couples, or a family with teenagers.
Three generations, or a small office team.
A department's outing to the tree and a show.
A whole company to Radio City and back.
Sprinters for families and office teams, mini buses for the larger outing.
The Midtown page covers the kerb rules; the Sprinter and group pages cover the vehicles.
A December evening here rarely has one destination: the tree, the windows, a show at Radio City, dinner near Times Square. Four transfers mean four cars hunting four kerbs; one hourly chauffeur holds two blocks away while you walk and returns to the agreed corner when you call.
Splitting a family across two cars is how someone ends up on the wrong corner; a 14-passenger Sprinter keeps three generations together, with a sliding door onto the kerb. A mini bus seating 23 to 38 does the same for an office outing, with one dispatcher holding the movement, and the 55-passenger coach takes a whole company.
At the start of December, on view into early January; we confirm the date and hours with your booking. At busy times the blocks beside the plaza close to cars, so the pickup is a short walk away.
On the kerbs that stay open: Sixth Avenue below 47th, Madison Avenue and the side streets away from the plaza. We confirm the corner the day before, in writing, because the closures move.
A weekday morning: lighter crowds, open streets and a car waiting close by. Weekend afternoons and evenings are the busiest hours of the year here; gridlock alert days are the ones to avoid.
To the edge of it, yes; to the ball, no. Closures start in the afternoon and grow until the area is sealed, so a car drops you nearby early and collects you after midnight outside the perimeter.
Hourly, once there are more than two stops: one chauffeur stays with you from the tree to Radio City to dinner, returning to the agreed corner when you call. For a single transfer, point-to-point is simpler.
Outside the peaks, ~45 to 80 minutes door to door depending on the hour. In December the last mile grows, and on a weekend afternoon the tunnel to a hotel in the fifties can add half an hour, so we track the flight and approach from the quieter side.
Rockefeller Center and Times Square are a ten-minute walk apart, between 42nd and 50th Streets, Fifth to Seventh. In December that rectangle holds the tree, the Fifth Avenue windows and Radio City, and the streets beside them close to cars whenever the crowd builds.
So the plan is a loop, not a line: the car drops you where it can legally stop, you walk the closed blocks, and it waits on the far side. Weekday mornings are quiet; afternoons, evenings, weekends and gridlock alert days are slow.
One hourly chauffeur suits an evening of stops, a Sprinter carries a family or office group of up to 14, and a mini bus takes the larger outing. A JFK sedan into a Midtown hotel is $140 all-inclusive; dispatch answers on (718) 360-9383.
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