Grate advice Julio, other option --staying there-- is use navigation
capabilities of OsmAnd mobile app.
El jun. 4, 2015 12:53 PM, "Julio Costa Zambelli" <
julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl> escribió:

> Andy,
>
> I am a frugal traveller so I have always used the subway to/from JFK. From
> any Airport terminal you take the Airtrain to "Howard Beach" (NOT Jamaica),
> once there you only have A trains and you have to take one towards
> Manhattan. You get off the train in the 14th Street station (it should be a
> long trip, a little longer if its late night since the train will stop at
> every station at that time of the day). From the station you walk a few
> meters south to Jackson Square and then left (East) on West 13th Street (on
> the Starbucks according to our map:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/40.73925/-74.00224) until you cross
> 7th Avenue.
>
> To get to the UN Headquarters probably the easiest way is to walk to the
> Union Square Station (three blocks away to the East) take the train 4 or 5
> (Express) towards Bronx and get off the train in Grand Central 42nd Street
> station and walk a few blocks East (until you reach the river ;)
>
> If you combine http://web.mta.info/maps/submap.html and OSM it should be
> quite easy. I do it that way every time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julio Costa Zambelli
> Fundación OpenStreetMap Chile
>
> julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.cl/
> Cel: +56(9)89981083
>
> On 4 June 2015 at 13:58, Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Well I visited New York in 2004 and then the choice was either a shuttle
>> bus (which drops you off somewhere near Grand Central) or the monorail to
>> an "A train" subway station which would take you into Manhattan.
>>
>> Once you're in Manhattan I guess you can just use an OSM map ;-)
>>
>> Obviously things might have changed now...
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
>> Sent: 04 June 2015 16:38
>> To: osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: [OSM-talk] SOTM-US: directions please
>>
>> Ironic, given our subject of interest...
>>
>> I've searched online, but found no directions from JFK to the New
>> Shool's 13th Street Residence, nor walking directions from there to
>> the UN building.
>>
>> Could someone oblige, please?
>>
>> --
>> Andy Mabbett
>> @pigsonthewing
>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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