Originally Posted by
LimitingFactor
Thanks - that’s great. No hotel actually booked at the moment, that’s still in the planning but yes, it will be Manhattan.
Cool, Midtown West area would be incrementally more convenient for access to EWR (and also relatively easy to get to from JFK on your inbound). Downtown (Financial District / Soho / Tribeca) is also close to EWR, but I wouldn't recommend that unless you're planning to focus your activities in downtown and Brooklyn, and it's a bit more of a challenge from JFK.
Originally Posted by
EvilDoctorK
What's the issue with the Newark AirTrain at the moment. - flying out of EWR next week and would probably take the train ( I'll be in midtown .. going for the 930pm flight ) .. but if the AirTrain is a mess then maybe that's not a good idea
They have been doing work on one of the tracks between the P4 station and the RailLink station (
map here) so there is one train shuttling back and forth on a single track between P4 and RailLink. Then you have to transfer at P4 for a different train to the terminals. And the last time I was there, that train was using the same track as the shuttle to the rail station, so one train would just sit and wait while the other one unloaded/reloaded. Since the AirTrain goes so slow, it only runs once every ~15 minutes, and if a crowded NJ Transit train arrives, there's a good chance you may have to wait for a second (or third!) AirTrain.
It's unclear for how much longer this work is continuing, but a scroll through the EWR Airport twitter account shows FREQUENT disruption/delays. They don't otherwise make it easy to find out what's going on.
https://twitter.com/EWRairport
https://twitter.com/EWRairport