Calling for a car service in Brooklyn can be mystifying. $35 for a white-knuckle ride to JFK? Without the comforting upward tick of a digital meter, the price from anywhere to anywhere can seem like it’s plucked out of thin air. What is the going rate? We decided to find out. Starting here with Park Slope, we’re contacting companies around the borough to learn just what the deal is (and what the best deals are) with your neighborhood car services. Read the rest of this entry »
Car-service price check: W’burg
How much is that doggy in the window? Around $3 more. Photo by Bitchcakes.
Our latest car-service price check brings us to Williamsburg, where we compared the fares for six different companies. Unlike the Park Slope car services we recently surveyed—whose rates were fairly well synchronized across the board—there was a bit more of a range in the prices quoted by WB dispatchers for the three sample rides we asked for.
As with last time, we called car services like anyone else would and asked for quotes on three different destinations. With a hypothetical starting point at Bedford Avenue and N. 12th Street, we asked for fares to: 1) to Lafayette Avenue and Ashland Place in Fort Greene, 2) to Delancey and Allen Streets on the Lower East Side and 3) to JFK Airport. We called each car service within a 20-minute span on an early weekday afternoon. We also compared rates with those of a metered yellow cab. Here’s what we found: Read the rest of this entry »
Price check: Park Slope car services
Calling for a car service in Brooklyn can be mystifying. $35 for a white-knuckle ride to JFK? Without the comforting upward tick of a digital meter, the price from anywhere to anywhere can seem like it’s plucked out of thin air. What is the going rate? We decided to find out. Starting here with Park Slope, we’re contacting companies around the borough to learn just what the deal is (and what the best deals are) with your neighborhood car services. Read the rest of this entry »
