Private Driving Lessons
One-to-one Manhattan lessons beginning with a safety evaluation and moving at the student’s pace.
Private Lessons
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City driving without being thrown into city traffic.
Patient, one-to-one instruction with Manhattan home pickup and a dual-brake, commercially insured training car.
Private lessons
Learn Manhattan one quiet street at a time.
The first evaluation begins with safety and vehicle setup before the instructor moves into city traffic, manoeuvres and test preparation.
Road-Test Preparation
A customised session focused on the legal road skills and manoeuvres needed for New York testing.
Road TestThe curriculum
From leaving the curb to reading an intersection.
A specific road-skills checklist covers vehicle control, traffic, parking, turns and defensive habits.
Press a manoeuvre
Parallel Park
Pull level with the car in front of the space and sit about a metre off it. Reverse on full lock until you are round 45 degrees, straighten, then opposite lock brings the tail in and the car comes out parallel. The examiner is marking your mirror and blind-spot checks at least as closely as the car.
- Pull alongside the car in front of the space.
- Reverse on full lock to 46°.
- Opposite lock swings the tail in.
- Straighten up and centre in the space.
Every instructor here has driven the examiner routes in New York County more times than they can count.
The training car
One commercially insured, dual-brake Honda Civic.
The school says lessons are delivered by the instructor-owner and start away from busy traffic.
Riverside publishes one specific training car: a 2016 Honda Civic with a dual brake and commercial insurance, used by the instructor-owner.
- 2016 Honda Civic
- Instructor-side dual brake
- Commercial insurance
- Private instruction
Manhattan only
Home pickup, plus three published meeting points.
Central Park West, Fifth Avenue and West 96th Street.
Book a private Manhattan lesson.
Call or email Riverside with your pickup point and current experience.