Originally Posted by
PAL62V
I decided last year that next time I travel in for business, I will go into EWR, clear immigration much quicker, get the train to Penn and a cab from there. I'll be into midtown faster and my client will pay less than the $75 cab fare from JFK.
Ewr can, at the wrong time in the wrong terminal, be worse than JFK. And the train to Penn does not run to a regularly spaced timetable, so you may wish to pick your schedule with great care. As others have said, if it really matters go via Dublin, or do the Lcy-jfk ba001.