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According to a survey, New Yorkers don't like the idea of building another airport to relieve the god-awful congestion in the skies. But they're also opposed to pricing plane tickets based on the time of day. So what can they agree on? Apparently: redesigning flight patterns, updating the air traffic control system, and using Stewart International Airport in Orange County.
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Building a viable high-speed rail network between New York and major cities in the region would eliminate dozens of flights every day, thereby reducing delays overall. It would be expensive, but the cost of building a new airport of any significance in the New York-area would itself be in the tens of billions.
I'm with you on that, longacre. Europe & Japan are so far ahead of us in rail, it's shameful. While we do that, there is already an existing railroad that cuts through part of the Stewart Airport land, connecting Port Jervis with Hoboken. Improve that and make a high speed connection between Penn Station & Stewart and you'd eliminate thousands of taxi and limo trips every day.
Back in the late 60's it was proposed that a monorail be built from Manhattan to Stewart -- it woudl have been attached to the underside of the GW Bridge and then up along the rail lines you describe above. Nothing happens vis-a-vis rail in this country. Meantime, the rest of the world is getting it's act together -- we have become such losers.