<p>Help 
I cannot figure this out and need to book a flight tonight to stay outside the seven day advance. </p>
<p>If I want to go to Jersey City, but don’t like the flight options in and out of Newark, is it logical to fly into one of the NYC airports, and, if so, assuming my Jersey City meeting ends at, say, 5:00-ish p.m., would I have enough time to take a train back to a New York airport to make a return flight that departs at 7:00 or 8:00 at night? Or should I try to find an even later flight? </p>
<p>I’m assuming trying to take a taxi from Jersey City to a New York airport at that hour is going to be a bad idea, so it seems like I will need a train.</p>
<p>Stay with me for a moment</p>
<p>one option</p>
<p>From Jersey City, take the path train to 33rd street (6th ave).</p>
<p>Walk to the 33rd street station to Penn station (33rd street & 7th ave)
from Penn station , you can take the LIRR to Jamaica (about 17 minutes). At Jamaica you can take the airtrain to JFK (6 minutes).</p>
<p>OP, it is unlikely that you can carry out your plan without feeling pretty rushed. Taking a taxi from New Jersey to NYC is very expensive if it can be done at all, and traffic is unpredictable at rush hour, though usually sluggish at best. You would probably do best as Sybbie suggests to take a PATH train from Jersey City to Manhattan, which takes perhaps ten minutes once the train comes, but then you would have to get from the PATH station (either Penn Station or World Trade Center) to Kennedy or LaGuardia, and with check in lines and security you might be pretty pressed for time–no great train connection directly to the NYC airports friom the city so you are probably relying on surface (bus or taxi) routes, whch again, are unpredictable. I’d suggest a later flight or settle for using Newark, which is extremely convenient from Jersey city.</p>
<p>If you are in Jersey City, Newark is the only airport that makes any sense at all.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone - after reading what everyone wrote I decided to just go ahead and book the Newark flights. Yucky flights but oh well - at least the price is tolerable.</p>