Do you have an ESTA? If so, then you should be able to use the APC booths. However... it all depends on how JFK has implemented APC. At ORD, we went through to the APC booth, did our fingerprints etc., and were then dumped at the back of the queue for non ESTA arrivals We'd arrived just after the EK and QR flights had landed. Completely bizarre.

At MCO and BOS, there is a separate line for people that have completed APC.

Of course, you then have customs to contend with no matter whether or not you have an ESTA.