Lincoln Square
Towers and hotels around the Lincoln Center campus, where an evening pickup is set against a fixed curtain time rather than a guess.
UPPER WEST SIDE · TUNNEL RUNS & STAFFED LOBBIES
Car service on the Upper West Side, sized from a sedan to a coach
The crossings start here, so Newark is the short run and the park is the variable.
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- Lobby-agreed pickups
- Straight run to the Lincoln Tunnel
- Sedans to 55-seat coaches
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the Upper West Side car service at a glance
Golden Class Limo covers the Upper West Side from Columbus Circle to 110th Street, river to park. Pickups at a staffed building are agreed with the lobby in advance, so the vehicle is in position before anyone comes downstairs.
The west side owns its own river crossings, and that decides which airport is easy. The Lincoln Tunnel is a straight run down the West Side Highway and the George Washington Bridge is straight up it, so Newark and Teterboro are the short trips from here.
LaGuardia is the trade-off. There is no eastward road across the park above 97th Street without using the transverses or going up to 125th, and that leg is what separates a thirty-minute run from a fifty-minute one.
Every vehicle class reaches the same address, from an executive sedan to a 55-seat motor coach, with mini buses and Sprinter vans between them. Rated 4.7 stars from 300+ Google reviews; the desk answers at any hour on (718) 360-9383.
Inside the neighbourhood
Five stretches, five different kerbs.
Which vehicle fits, and where it can wait, changes along the way.
Central Park West
Pre-war co-ops with staffed lobbies facing the park, and a kerb that a bus cannot use at the door on a weekend morning.
Riverside Drive
Quieter frontages above the Hudson, where the service road and the park wall decide which side of the street a car can wait on.
Morningside Heights
Columbia and the buildings around it, a campus neighbourhood with its own term-time rhythms and a hospital a few blocks south.
Manhattan Valley
Above 96th Street, closer to the 125th Street crossings than to Midtown, and outside the relief zone like the rest of the neighbourhood.
Coverage
What the four runs take from this side of the park.
Typical door-to-door times from around West 72nd Street. The order is the reverse of the east side's: the tunnels first, the bridges last.
| To | Distance | Typical drive time |
|---|---|---|
| Airports | ||
| Newark Liberty (EWR)Down the West Side Highway to the Lincoln Tunnel — no crosstown leg | ~14 miles | 35–65 minutes |
| Teterboro (TEB)Straight up the Henry Hudson Parkway to the George Washington Bridge | ~11 miles | 30–55 minutes |
| LaGuardia (LGA)Across the park or up to 125th Street first, which is what adds the time | ~10 miles | 30–55 minutes |
| JFKThe longest of the four from this side of the park | ~18 miles | 45–80 minutes |
Each row links to that airport's own page, where an arrival is tracked against the flight.
Lincoln Square
An evening here runs to a published clock.
Around the Lincoln Center campus the pickup time is not a guess — it is set against a curtain time that everybody already knows.
That makes the return leg the part worth arranging. A few thousand people leave the plaza within about fifteen minutes of the final curtain, and Columbus Avenue takes most of them, so a car waiting at the entrance is in the slowest place available.
We stage away from the plaza and come in once your party is together at the corner agreed beforehand. On a booking by the hour the vehicle simply waits through the evening, which is what most people here end up choosing.
The northern end
A campus, and two hospitals a few blocks apart.
Above 96th Street the neighbourhood stops being residential and starts running to institutional timetables.
Columbia sits at the top of the neighbourhood, and Mount Sinai Morningside is a short way south of it on Amsterdam, with Mount Sinai West at the other end near Columbus Circle. Between them they make appointment runs and campus arrivals a steady part of what we drive here, rather than an occasional one.
Both patterns want the same thing: an arrival time that is fixed by somebody else and a vehicle that is already there. Appointment work is set up as a standing booking so it is not re-entered each week, and a term-time arrival is quoted with the luggage counted rather than discovered at the kerb.
Flying from Newark?
From this side of the park it is a straight run down to the tunnel with no crossing to make.
The fleet
Every class reaches the same address.
A sedan or an Escalade covers most bookings on this side of the park; the vans and coaches come to the same buildings, loading from the cross street where the avenue will not take them.
Showing 13 of 13 vehicles.
Choosing a vehicle
From one passenger to fifty-five.
Pick the bracket and the row opens the form with that vehicle selected.
- 1–3
Executive sedan
A single rider to Newark, or the standing weekday trip to an office downtown.
- 4–6
Cadillac Escalade ESV
A family with luggage heading out through the tunnel for a flight.
- 7–14
Mercedes Sprinter van
A block of neighbours travelling together, or a student move at the end of term.
- 15–38
Mini bus
Campus groups and building committees, loaded from the cross street.
- 39–55
Motor coach
A whole-school or whole-building movement, staged off the avenue.
Tell us the building and the hour.
The quote comes back on your address, with the crossing already counted.
Keep planning
The island, and the airports this side favours.
The hub page prices the island as a whole; the airport pages go into each crossing in detail.
In depth
Two park frontages, two different pickups
Central Park West and Riverside Drive do not behave the same
Both are lines of pre-war buildings with staffed lobbies, and that is where the similarity ends. Central Park West has a bus lane, a park wall opposite and a weekend crowd walking to the museum, so a larger vehicle is loaded from the numbered side street rather than at the canopy. We set that corner when the booking is made.
Riverside Drive has a service road for much of its length, which is the easiest kerb on the west side to wait at — but the drive and the road are not always on the same level, and giving a chauffeur the building number without the cross street is how a car ends up one tier below the entrance. We ask for both.
Good to know
the Upper West Side questions, answered.
Which airport is quickest from the Upper West Side?
Newark, more often than people expect, because the Lincoln Tunnel is reached without crossing town: the West Side Highway runs the length of the neighbourhood and feeds it directly. Teterboro is close behind via the George Washington Bridge. LaGuardia and JFK both need an eastward leg first.
Why does LaGuardia take longer from the Upper West Side than from the east side?
Because the park is in the way. Above 97th Street there is no through road across it, so the trip uses a transverse or goes up to the 125th Street crossing before it can turn toward the bridge. That leg is short in distance and unpredictable in time, which is why we quote a range rather than a number.
Can a coach pick up on Central Park West?
Usually not at the canopy itself. There is a bus lane along the park side and a steady weekend flow of people on foot, so a vehicle of that size loads from the numbered cross street instead. We agree the corner when the booking is made and send it to whoever is marshalling the group.
Do you pick up from buildings on Riverside Drive?
Yes, and it is one of the easier kerbs in the neighbourhood because much of the drive has a service road beside it. The thing worth giving us is the cross street as well as the number: the drive and its service road sit at different levels in places, and the wrong one leaves the car a tier below the entrance.
Is the Upper West Side inside the congestion relief zone?
Only the very bottom of it. The zone covers Manhattan below 60th Street, and the neighbourhood runs from Columbus Circle up to about 110th, so almost every pickup starts outside it. A trip continuing into Midtown or downtown does enter the zone, and we say so when we quote.
Can you handle a group leaving Morningside Heights at the same time as a campus event?
Yes, and it wants planning rather than improvisation. The streets around the campus narrow and fill quickly when a term-time event turns out, so we stage larger vehicles a few blocks off and bring them in once the group is together at an agreed corner, rather than leaving a coach idling on Broadway.
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Who runs this service
About this service
Golden Class Limo is a chauffeured ground transportation company headquartered at 47-47 35th St, Long Island City, NY 11101, providing car, van and bus service to and from the Upper West Side of Manhattan 24/7, 365 days a year. The company serves John F. Kennedy International (JFK), LaGuardia (LGA), Newark Liberty (EWR) and Teterboro (TEB) airports, with a fleet of 30+ vehicles: executive sedans, a Mercedes-Benz S550, Cadillac Escalade ESV SUVs, 14-passenger Mercedes Sprinter vans, a conference-table luxury Sprinter, a 7-passenger Jet Sprinter, a cargo Sprinter for heavy luggage, mini buses seating 23, 29, 32 and 38, a 40-passenger charter bus and a 55-passenger motor coach. Its service area covers all five New York City boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island) plus Long Island, the Hamptons, Westchester, New Jersey and Connecticut. Golden Class Limo is rated 4.7 out of 5 across 300+ Google reviews, has carried 3,100+ clients, and takes reservations online, by phone at (718) 360-9383 and by email at info@goldenclasslimo.com.
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