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Travel to New York

Flight times:

From London to New York is 6 hours 50 minutes.

Travel by rail

Pennsylvania Station, at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street, serves both the Long Island Railroad, with routes to Long Island, NJ Transit, with routes to New Jersey, and Amtrak, nationwide (tel: 1 800 872 7245, in the USA only; website: http://www.amtrak.com/). Grand Central Station, at 42nd Street and Park Avenue, is the terminus for services to upstate New York (Metro North) and Connecticut. There are daily trains to Montréal and to Toronto.

Approximate rail journey times:
From New York on the 'Maple Leaf' to Niagara Falls is 9 hours; on the 'Silver Meteor' to Orlando (Disney World) is 21 hours; and on the 'Crescent' to Atlanta is 16 hours. There are frequent shuttles to Washington, DC and Boston, taking 3 hours 15 minutes and 4 hours 30 minutes respectively.

Driving to New York

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects Brooklyn with Staten Island.

Queensborough Bridge links Manhattan and Queens.

Take Triborough Bridge for upstate New York and the New England Thruway and Bruckner Expressway to New England.

Ferry operators:

The Staten Island Ferry (website: www.siferry.com; departing from Battery Park) operates between Lower Manhattan and Staten Island. The Circle Line Ferry (tel: 1 866 925 4631, in the USA only; website: www.circlelinedowntown.com; departing from Battery Park) sails to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises (tel: (212) 563 3200; website: www.circleline42.com) provide guided tours around Manhattan Island and along the Hudson River (departing from Pier 83, West 42nd Street). Frequent ferry services also run from Manhattan to Brooklyn, New Jersey and Queens. Operators include NY Waterway (website: www.nywaterway.com) and Seastreak (tel: 1 800 262 8743, in the USA only; website: www.seastreakusa.com). Lake Champlain Ferries (tel: (802) 864 9804; website: www.ferries.com) provide several crossings on Lake Champlain, between New York State and Vermont. Routes include: Plattsburg NY-Grande Isle; Port Kent NY-Burlington and Essex NY-Charlotte. Wolfe Island, Ontario, is connected to Cape Vincent in New York by a ferry service which operates daily during the summer (website: www.wolfeisland.com). A service from Wolfe Island to Kingston, Ontario, operates daily throughout the year.

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