... I mean, no. It's more that it is weird that there is no train to the airport (it looks like you can take ~3 trains from Manhattan). New York is likely the only really big city in the developed world where this is the case.

In Ireland, everyone thinks it's pretty ridiculous that there's no train to Dublin Airport (all going well, it will finally have one in 2036 or so, after _many_ false starts). Dublin's a city of about 1.5 million people. It's pretty incomprehensible that a city ten times the size wouldn't have one.

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minutillo an hour ago | parent [-]

There is (since 2023) a train that connects directly from Grand Central to JFK AirTrain.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Airtrain opened in 2003 [1]. It connected to the subway system and, through Jamaica, Penn Station. The novel bit in 2023 was it also linking into Grand Central. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirTrain_JFK
	▲	rsynnott 18 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Huh. Google Maps was not showing me that. EDIT: Oh, wait, misread, I thought you meant a direct train from Grand Central to the airport.