Late Night in New York: Is Booking a Private Chauffeur Safer Than Uber or the Subway? New York City famously never sleeps. Whether your evening involves a late dinner in SoHo, a Broadway curtain call followed by drinks, a gala event in DUMBO, or a midnight red-eye flight arrival into JFK, navigating Manhattan after dark is a regular part of city life. However, late-night transit introduces safety and reliability concerns that don't exist during daytime hours: Subway schedules