To difference of big part of the urban areas American, most of the inhabitants of New York utilization the means publics rather than the automobiles deprived; it had to is the presence of a good and efficient public net of transportation (based on one of the most extended subways some world), is thanks to the discourage to the use of the deprived, like the high costs of the hours of point. Very famous are surely the yellow taxi, available to all them hours of the day and of the night. THE prices of a race in taxi specially are not raised.

Airports
 New York arranges of 3 important airports: the international airport John F. Kennedy (JFK), situated to Jamaica (in the Queens) and to 25 km from Manhattan; the art nouveau Newark International Airport (EWR), in the New Jersey; and the Fiorello La Guardia Airport (LGA), situated instead to Jackson Heights (in the Queens), used almost exclusively for the inside flights USA.
 From the JFK the half more rapid one to reach Manhattan is the helicopter, that employs only 15 minutes; to do a comparison, a race in taxi can last from 45 to 60 minute and beyond, to second of the deal. The half perhaps more economical one, instead, is constituted from the combination of Airtrain with the local net of transportations. The Airtrain is the system of trains suspended (inaugurated in 2004) that connects the terminal varieties of the airport to the stop "JFK/Howard Beach" of the subway and to the stop "Jamaica" of the train (lines LIRR, Long Island Rail Road). From "JFK/Howard Beach" it is reached Manhattan in about 40-60 minutes (to second of the destination). From "Jamaica" it is reached Penn Station in about 15-20 minutes.
 Also the Liberty Newark has a system Airtrain that it is connected to the station "Newark Airport" of the train (lines New Jersey Transit). From there it is reached Penn Station to Manhattan in about 30 minutes.
 Different lines of bus and bus-shuttle, finally, connect the varied airports to Midtown.

Local transport
 The local system of transportation is based mainly on the subway (subway), the half more rapid way to move in town. The net, that is very extensive (1142 km and 469 stations), is characterized from the fact that there are is local trains (stop in all the stations), that express trains (stop alone in the main stations).
 Thanks to a net of railroads and local buses, then, are possible catch up various localities, from Long Island to the New Jersey to the Connecticut and the continental part of the state of New York. These lines are managed from various societies, between which the more important they are:
 The mta (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), that does head mainly to the town of New York and manages the subway, the urban bus and the trains verse Long Island (LIRR) and verse North (Metronorth);
 The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, under the combined control of the states of New York and New Jersey, that it manages the PATH (Port Authority Trans the Hudson), the extracity metropolitan whom Manhattan to the New Jersey connects, and various lines of bus that Buses Terminal converge to the Port Authority, neighbour to Times Square;
 The New Jersey Transit, society of the state of the New Jersey, that manages the railroad lines that from the New Jersey finish to Penn Station, beyond that to a lot of lines of bus.
 The system is then integrated from a series of you ferry (ferries), that connect above all Manhattan to the New Jersey and to Staten Island, and from the numerous yellow taxi that travel the city roads.

Train
 The two main city railway stations are the Grand Central Terminal and the Pennsylvania Station (more known like "Penn Station") and both are found in the Midtown zone of Manhattan.  The Grand Central Terminal is situated in the east part (East Side) and is a tourist attraction of for himself, in particular for its the enormous and elegant entrance hall. They make head the coming from railway convoys you from the north of the state and the Connecticut.
 The Penn Station, instead, it is found in the part west (West Side), literally under (that is to say to the underground plans of) another well-known building newyork, the Madison Square Garden. It is an of the main stations of the trains to long percolation Amtrak, provenienti from all of the USA and from the Canada, and a terminus of the trains of the New Jersey Transit as well as of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) that connects the town to Long Island.