You can use two different types of parking at JFK airport:
Long-Term JFK Airport Parking
Located at Lefferts Blvd, 4 miles from CTA
AirTrain services link parking with the terminals.
Parking rates
$18 for up to 24 hours
$6 for each 8-hour period over first 24 hours
Daily JFK Airport Parking
Green parking - Terminals 1,2,3
Blue parking - Terminal 4
Yellow parking - Terminals 5 & 6
Orange parking - Terminal 7
Red - Terminals 8 & 9
Parking rates
$3 for the first half hour
$6 for up to 1 hour
$3 for each additional half hour, up to $33 maximum each 24-hour period
BEWARE!!!!! THEY ARE TERRIBLE I parked there for a week and when I came back the driver's side door was smashed and the inner door panel was in the back seat. They said the car was that way when it arrived and tried to show me their hand written note saying that the car was damaged when it arrived. The door wouldn't even close properly.
I took it to an auto body shop and they took photos and wrote that the damage was done when the door was hit when it was open - a common parking garage accident. The auto body shop also wrote that there was no rust on the damaged metal, so the damage had to occur within the last two or three days. Since the car was there for a week, it could not have been damaged when it arrived.
Despite all this info, AVISTAR claimed that both its manager and regional manager saw the car arrive damaged. There reaction was to totally ignore my letters and calls.
After reading all these comments, you decide if its safe to park your car there.
If I park long term at JFK and am traveling with 4 large bags, is there a way to transport the bags from the car to the shuttle or am I better off going with Smart Park?
The long term lot has the little push carts that you can rent for a couple bucks. You can then wheel your luggage from the car to the building that has the monorail. The building has elevators too, so getting to the platform is easy. Monorail takes you directly to any of the terminals and you can take the cart and luggage on to the monorail and leave the cart at the terminal.
However, with parking now $18 a day in long term, you may want to look into off airport options if it's a long trip.
i have used smartpark before and find them to be courteous, efficient and cheaper than the other options. the jfk long term lot is easy if u don't mind the monorail (convenient but u need to walk to it and schlep ur stuff). smartpark drops u off at the door to the terminal.
Does AirTrain have hours limitations? Do they stop running at any certain hour? We are arriving late on a Saturday night and want to make sure we are able to get to our car when we get back.
Nope. Runs all night. Its pretty easy, just remember where you parked!
Could anyone please tell me the street address of the entrance to the Long Term Parking Lot at JFK and a rough estimate how long it would take me to make it to say terminal 5 frm the parking lot? Thanks in advance for sharing the information.
My complaint: It was very difficult to locate jfk long term parking info on your site. I kept getting Avistar parking on your site and an attorney advertising his services (Edward Jenks, former ADA)
Does the airtrain run on any kind of schedule from the long term parking lot? If so does anyone know the time schedule. I am leaving On jet blue at 6 am, and want to have plenty of time for security check and parking
thanks Joe
The AirTrain schedule is on this brochure:
http://www.panynj.gov/airtrain/pdfdownload/jfk_brochure_english.pdf
I've never had to wait longer than 10 minutes. You can usually park closer to the Howard Beach station (northwestern side of the lot), compared to the Long Term Parking Lot station, if you prefer a shorter walk.
This is ridiculous $18 per day, for a week will be more than i paid for my roundtrip flight. I can't believe this, to pay more for parking than for roundtrip flight?
ok..yes, i totally get the "wow, can't believe they are charging $18/day for longterm parking!" but...if you really look at the breakdown...its 18 for the first 24 hrs and then 6 every 12 hrs after...so its really only 12/day which is better than some of the other places that include tax and have to drive u in traffic to the terminal.The JFK longterm pking is soooooo much easier and you can use ezpass to pay at the end. hope this helps!
Ohh, ok, than I do apologies for my remark. I was getting it that is $18 every day. Thank you for the info, I was planing to use one of those parking companies, but good thing i checked back here and thank you for posting this message, now I will park my car at JFK long term parking.
Thanks again!
recheck your math. you were right the first time. $6 per 8 hours after the first day. Three 8 hr time periods per day... $6 times 3 does indeed equal $18 per day (24 hour period of time) after the first day. Still $18 a day, $6 for the first 8, $6 for the second 8, $6 for the third. now if you got to the lot before 16 hours went by on a particular day, you'd pay only $12 for that day, or $6 if under eight hours.
BEWARE!!!!! THEY ARE