What is the most efficient and effective way to get from Newark Airport to Pennsylvania Station, New York on a Sunday afternoon. Or to lower New York where I can catch the N train to 59th Street in Brooklyn and transfer to a Bay Ridge train. I am not sure whether the N train runs express on Sundays.
Check NJ Transit’s schedule for the 62 bus to the downtown station in Newark. Runs … maybe every 20 minutes, takes 20? minutes to the downtown station where you can catch the PATH train to downtown Manhattan.
http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/bus/T0062.pdf
Note the luggage limit on the 62.
Take the monorail at Newark Airport to the train station. Take any northbound train to Penn Station. Remember that the station in Newark is also called Penn Station; make sure that you stay on the train until it travels through a long tunnel.
From the NYC subway map, it looks like the easiest way to get to the N train from Penn Station is to take a Seventh Avenue train (#1,2,or3) uptown to 42nd street (next station from 34th street - Penn Station), and then follow the signs to the N train. Don’t exit the station; this is a free transfer, it just requires a walk through the maze.
There’s a lot of construction in the subways on the weekends, on various lines on different weekends, so I can’t answer your question about the N running express.
you can take the monorail at the airport to the nj transit station where you can take a train directly into Penn station.
If you’d just as soon end up in downtown Manhattan, rather than at 33rd St, no reason to take the train from the Newark Airport station. It’ll cost more and won’t get you there any sooner.
Monorail and New Jersey Transit is the easiest way. Take the airport monorail to NJT’s airport station and an NJT train to New York Penn Station. One way adult fare is $12.50. Senior citizen fare is $8.75. To qualify as a senior citizen you must be 62 and have proof of age (such as a drivers license with your date of birth or a Medicare card). Total time in NJT schedule is 30 minutes. On a Sunday afternoon the trains can be as much as an hour apart but many are closer together. You have to check the schedule. Just be sure you don’t get on an Amtrak train by mistake as the fares are much, much higher.
Or find the no. 62 bus stop at the airport. Take the bus to Newark Penn Station. (Newark Penn Station is the last stop so you will have no problem knowing when your get there). Adult fare is $1.35 exact change (you can use a dollar bill) or 70¢ senior citizen fare. Sunday afternoon the buses are 20 to 30 minutes apart.
Change to the PATH train to World Trade Center in Newark Penn Station. PATH trains Newark to WTC are 20 minutes apart on Sunday afternoon. Fare is $2.25 and you have to figure out how to buy a fare card. Maybe there is a cash turn style. Allow time to figure it out.
If you take the PATH I think the best way is to change at Journal Square to a 33rd Street Train. This will take you to Herald Square, one block from New York Penn Sation and a short walk to the the N train.
If you go to WTC you will need to take a 1 train to South Ferry, change to an R train uptown and then change to the N train along the way.
So you can do it the frugal way for $3.60 with some changes or the easy way for $12.50 with no changes.
A BETTER WAY.
62 bus to Newark Penn Station and then change to a New Jersey Transit Train to New York Penn Station. One way fare is $5.
Etxcept that you are in luck. There is no need to use the N train on Sundays. The R train, running in two sections on weekdays and just as a shuttle south 36th or 59th Street in Brooklyn on late nights pre-dawn mornings, on Sundays runs in one through route from Continental Avenue, Queens, to 95th and Fort Hamilton, and siince the Montague Street tunnel is closed for post-Sandy rehab, operates via the Bridge, just like the N operates. Your best bet is the following:
Either bus from Newark Airport to Newark Penn Sta. to save money, or the monorail-people mover to NJT rail station and then NJT train to Newark. The PATH to Journal Square, then the uptown “33rd Street” PATH train (always a good connection at Journal Square, 1/12 minutes) to 33rd Street, and then get the downtown R train at the “BMT” platform in the same station complex. No need to go up to Times Square and back. For variety, but no real saving in time, you can depart PATH at 14th Street, and use the “L” 14th Street Canarsie Line train one stop east to Union Square and board the southbound R there, just to visit New York’s automatic train operation, only currently on the L.
The 30 June 2013 R train timetable at mta.info is wrong?
http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/pdf/trcur.pdf
If by chance the R train does run like the timetable says, then it stops a couple blocks from the PATH station in downtown Manhattan.
https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.7115,-74.011&spn=0.004408,0.006856&t=m&z=17
See the Cortlandt St station for the R train, just south of center? And the PATH station, just north of center?
If the R train timetable isn’t lying, then no one knows why the guys want you to ride up to 33rd St.
Usually, information on the NYCTA website is accurate. Possibly the shutdown of the Montague Street Tunnel has been:
- Posponed beause of long than expected delivery time for signal and power control parts,
or
- Innitial work indicated the problems are not as severe as first concluded, and a shut-down is not nedessary.
I hope the latter.
So by all means board the R right at the World Trae Center PATH station.
Poossibly the work on the Montague St. tunnel has been postponed or reduced in scope. If the website is correct, by all means board the R at Courtland St.
The shutdown of the Montague St. Tunnel will occur the first week in August and last up to 14 months. But the 4 and 5 are nearby and bring you to the R at Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.
Good advice. I followed the general consensus of advice and had no trouble getting from the Newark Airport to Penn Station, New York. I took the airport train to the Newark Airport train stop, hopped onto a NJ Transit train, and rode into New York without a hitch.
Since my original post for help, I changed my hotel plans and decided to stay in the city. I am a LQ Returns member. I booked the hotel on 32nd Street between Broadway and Fifth Avenue. It is just a short walk from Penn Station to the hotel.
The fare on the train was $8.75 for a senior. Had I taken a bus into NYC, it would have taken me to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, which would not have been as convenient as taking the train into Penn Station New York. Also, it would have cost $16 compared to $8.75 for the train.
There are lots people in the airport to help guide a visitor to his or her destination. They are identifiable by their red jackets. One young lady even helped me get my ticket out of the ticket machine. Unlike the ticket machines in San Francisco, the NJ Transit machines, as well as the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority machines, are easy to operate.
I got to Newark around 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. Not the best time to arrive. The trains were crowded. I am going back to New York in October. I plan to go up on Saturday; I suspect the trains are a bit less crowded on a Saturday afternoon, although I could be wrong.
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Yes, Newark is quite convenient for getting to Midtown Manhattan. I’ve done that trek a number of times. La Guardia isn’t bad either. Just takes a little longer. Bus from airport to the N subway and then next stop Manhattan.