Originally Posted by
ninerdriver
Yeah, you're on reserve for both airports, whether short call or long call. You can't pick just one airport.
You'd be good timewise for reserve to either airport from anywhere in the city. LGA is easier from the Bronx, Manhattan, and northern Queens (Astoria, Elmhurst, Corona, and Flushing). JFK is easier from pretty much anywhere else in Queens, as well as from Brooklyn. Kew Gardens is centrally located between the two airports and a decent neighborhood to boot.
unless you want to move, I would certainly not move to nyc just because of that. I commuted to NY for years and it was worth it to live somewhere I liked that my money went further. I honestly didn’t mind being based in NY for ~4 years but I have no desire to ever live there.