Taxi from JFK to E 34th St

I am planning my first ever trip to NYC in the first week of May. I have read all the tips here regarding transfers from JFK to Manhattan and have decided a yellow cab is the easiest and less stressful option though the most expensive! Am I right in assuming that if I hand over $60 each way to the driver for the trip from the Delta terminal to the Affinia Dumont on E 34th St I would be doing the right thing?

Thanks.

Taxi from JFK to E 34th St

The flat fare is $45. You then pay tolls and tips. If for some reason he takes a bridge (versus the midtown tunnel) to Manhattan there are no tolls and all you have to do is tip on top of the $45. He should, btw take the tunnel but he may know something about traffic at the moment which makes it a bad idea! Assuming he takes the tunnel, at the end of your ride you hand him $60--which will include fare, tolls and tip!

For your return--the same thing applies. You pay at the END of your trip!

Taxi from JFK to E 34th St

OK thanks for the info - sorry I maybe didn%26#39;t express myself clearly. I do realise you pay at the end of the trip but I was more concerned that the guy wasn%26#39;t going to give me sh*t for not tipping enough! I realise that tipping is far more widespread there than it is in the UK - I just wanted to do the right thing. My $60 equates to a 20% tip (assuming tunnel toll paid) which I assume is perfectly acceptable - I don%26#39;t want to be called a cheapskate Brit - or worse!

Thanks again.

The Affinia Dumont is seven blocks south of the drop-off point for $15 shuttle buses that pick up at JFK. You could take one of those, then cross 42nd to Grand Central and catch a cab to the Affinia for about $5.

Or you could, conceivably, walk up Murray hill, wheeling your luggage if small, south on Park Avenue, and turn left at 34th, one more block. It will be the place with the J. Seward Johnson sculpture of a painter out front.