The E to the 1.

I just spent a good portion of time looking at my Not For Tourists guidebook to New York City, specifically the information on getting to Manhattan from either JFK or LaGuardia. I proceeded to spend several minutes staring at the MTA subway maps and tried to figure out some earthly way to get from the E train coming in from Queens to the 1 train that runs the western length of the island and would take me to the appointed destination of Columbia station, right across the street from my summer dorm. Then I said 'Fuck it, I'll spend the forty bucks to have a car pick me up. It would be good to not die on my first day in New York.'