Taxi availability in Manhattan at late night? -

Hi there,forgive the possibly stupid question, but I just want to be sure about this :)I ll get to New York for a day in february, and will be visiting Manhattan as my connection flight leaves 12 hours later. I have to be back at JFK Airport at 5 AM, and was thinking to get a taxi from Manhattan to the ariport at around 2-3 AM. Is it easy to get a taxi at that time in Manhattan or should I get a taxi company number just-in-case? I know by day Manhattan is literally flooded with taxis, but I really have no guess if there s many at night as well. (If it makes any difference, it ll be a saturday).Thanks for any help.

Cabs are available on the avenues in downtown and midtown Manhattan at all hours of the day and night. You may not be able to hail one on a side street in the middle of the night, but just walk to an avenue intersection and you ll be fine within a few minutes, particularly on a weekend night. Calling a car service would be far more expensive. It s not as easy to hail a cab in northern Manhattan (Harlem and above) or in the outer boroughs.Incidentally, at an hour when there s little traffic, you don t need to allow that many hours for getting to the airport! unless you want to spend the wee hours at JFK rather than in Manhattan -- that s certainly your call.

There are plenty of cabs on the street at that time. You can look an basically any avenue or major crosstown street and I am sure that yiou will be on your way to the airport in less than five minutes.Couple of throngs about cabs...They have to take you where you want to go. The fare will be on the meter and that is for the car, not per person. You will pay any tolls, like if you want to save a couple of minutes and go through the tunnel or RFK bridge. I have heard of drivers trying to extract double the fare, but that does not apply here. The fare will be around $40 or $50, plus tip. Another $8-$10 would be nice.