Three rail lines, one county, and a car that runs to your timetable.

At a glance

The short version, before the detail.

Coverage

The whole county: the river towns from Yonkers to Croton-Harmon, the Harlem Line towns up to Katonah, the Sound Shore from New Rochelle to Port Chester, and the corridor around White Plains.

Ways to book

Point to point, by the hour, and airport transfers to JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and Westchester County Airport. Groups of up to fourteen in one vehicle.

Hourly minimum

Four hours, up to sixteen in one booking, with the chauffeur waiting between stops.

Wait time

15 minutes at a kerbside pickup. 60 minutes on an airport arrival, from the moment you land.

Availability

Every day, including holidays. Book at least 24 hours ahead where you can.

If plans change

Full refund 24 hours or more before pickup. Half back between 12 and 24 hours. Nothing inside 12.

Parkway restrictions

The Bronx River, Saw Mill, Hutchinson, Sprain Brook and Taconic parkways are closed to commercial vehicles. A van or a bus runs on I-287, I-684 or the Thruway instead.

Congestion charge

Only on a journey that reaches Manhattan at or below 60th Street. Quoted with the fare and passed through at cost, like a toll.

The county, from the kerb

Not what each place holds, but what it does to a car. Where it can stop, which road reaches it, and when that road is full.

• Playland

  Playland Parkway, Rye

  Reached off the Boston Post Road on its own short parkway, with one road in and the same road out. A pickup point agreed before you go in beats one arranged from inside the queue.

• Kykuit and Sleepy Hollow

  Route 9, Sleepy Hollow

  Everything here hangs off Route 9, which narrows through the village centre and has nowhere obvious for a car to hold. We agree a meeting point when you book rather than circle for one.

• The river towns

  Hastings-on-Hudson to Ossining

  Village centres strung along one road above the Hudson, each with a narrow main street and its station down at the water. A pickup a corner off the main street is quicker than one on it.

• SUNY Purchase

  Anderson Hill Road, Purchase

  A campus of separate halls set around one loop road, with performances and term dates that empty several of them at once. Name the building rather than the campus and the car waits at it.

• The Sound Shore

  New Rochelle to Port Chester

  The Boston Post Road links the New Haven Line towns and carries the local traffic the whole way. I-95 is faster when it is moving and slower when it is not, so we choose between them by the hour.

• The Cuomo Bridge

  Tarrytown to Rockland County

  The Tappan Zee crossing, and the way west from the north of the county. It is tolled, the toll goes on the quote at cost, and it is the stretch of a Newark run we build the extra time into.

• The parkways

  Bronx River, Saw Mill, Hutchinson

  Narrow lanes, stone overpasses and no commercial vehicles at all. A sedan or an SUV may use them; a Sprinter or a bus takes I-287, I-684 or the Thruway instead.

• The northern towns

  Chappaqua, Mount Kisco, Katonah

  Furthest from the airports and least served by anything that is not a car. The roads are dark and narrow after nightfall, so we build time in rather than shave it.

The airport run from Westchester

Give us the flight number and the pickup follows the aircraft. Every arrival includes 60 minutes of wait time, and the fare is quoted for the route.

Drive times are typical, not guaranteed. Traffic, weather and roadworks all move them, which is why we watch the flight instead of the clock.

Ways to book

Three formats cover everything we do here, and every one is quoted before you confirm.

Westchester is where a great many of our journeys start. It is rarely where they end.

• BrooklynBrownstone Brooklyn to the Red Hook cruise terminal, with the bridges, the BQE and both airports part of the daily round.
• The BronxRiverdale to Throgs Neck, the Stadium and the Botanical Garden, with every bridge and parkway known by heart.
• QueensThe borough both airports sit in, from Astoria to the Rockaways, with JFK and LaGuardia closer than from anywhere else.
• ManhattanThe whole island, above and below 60th Street, from the piers to the parks, every day of the year.
• Staten IslandSt George to Tottenville, by the Verrazzano or the Goethals, whichever the traffic favours on the day.
• Long IslandNassau and Suffolk, from the Queens line to Montauk, door to door in either direction.