AC/DC at MetLife Stadium: The Long Island Guide to the Power Up Tour

AC/DC plays MetLife Stadium on Friday, September 25, 2026, with The Pretty Reckless opening. If you are going, you already know why. This is one of the last bands standing from an era of rock that filled stadiums on riffs alone, and every date on the Power Up Tour draws people who have been waiting decades to see them one more time. The question is not whether the night is worth it. The question is how you get from Long Island to East Rutherford on a Friday and back without the commute swallowing the night.

The Show

AC/DC — Power Up Tour

• Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
• Opener: The Pretty Reckless
• Venue: MetLife Stadium, 1 MetLife Stadium Drive, East Rutherford, NJ
• Capacity: 82,500

This closes out the biggest concert month MetLife has run in years: Ed Sheeran on September 4 and 5, BIGBANG on the 11th, the Giants-Cowboys opener on the 13th, Karol G on the 17th and 18th, the Jets home opener on the 20th, and AC/DC to finish it. By the 25th, the Meadowlands will have been absorbing crowds of 80,000 for four straight weeks.

Who Is Actually Going to This Show

Let me describe the AC/DC crowd from Long Island, because I have driven it: guys who saw them at the Coliseum in the 80s bringing their kids, groups of couples from Huntington and Smithtown making a full night of it, and a lot of people who decided years ago that they do not stand in parking lots anymore.

This crowd skews older and skews comfortable, and that changes the transportation math. Nobody in this group wants to do the LIRR-to-Penn, NJ-Transit-to-Secaucus, shuttle-to-the-stadium relay in both directions. Nobody wants to be the sober driver on the Cross Bronx at midnight. And nobody wants to pay for a great seat and then spend two hours getting out of a parking lot. This is exactly the night a chauffeur exists for.

The Friday Drive, Honestly

There is no version of Long Island to the Meadowlands that avoids crossing the entire metro area, and Friday is the hardest day to do it.

The northern route runs the LIE or Northern State to the Grand Central, over the Throgs Neck or Whitestone, across the Cross Bronx, over the George Washington Bridge, and down Route 3. On a Friday afternoon the Cross Bronx is the single most unpredictable stretch of road in the country.

The southern route takes the Belt to the Verrazzano, across Staten Island, over the Goethals, and up the Turnpike. More miles, and on the wrong Friday, faster anyway.

I will not print a drive time, because any number I give you for a Friday crossing is fiction. What I can tell you is that our chauffeurs pick the route the day of, based on what the roads are actually doing, and we build the departure with real margin. That margin is what you are buying.

The Ride Home Is Where the Night Is Won

MetLife's own guidance for events warns that rideshare surge pricing is common after shows and that waits can run past two hours with big crowds. A stadium of 82,500 emptying at once onto one app is exactly that scenario, and a Friday AC/DC show will empty all at once, because nobody leaves early to beat traffic when the encore is the reason they came.

The taxi and limousine zone sits between Lots D and E. Your chauffeur stages there before the last song. You walk out with your ears ringing, get in a quiet car, and you are heading east while the lots are still figuring out which lane merges first. For most non-NFL events, self-parking means a prepaid permit and a long post-show crawl. Skip the whole category of problem.

Make It a Full Night

A show like this one is usually the anchor of a bigger evening: dinner first, the show, maybe a stop after. That is what our hourly service is built for. The car and chauffeur stay with you for the night, so dinner in Manhasset, the show in East Rutherford, and the ride home are one continuous plan instead of three separate transportation problems.

For groups, one Sprinter van carries eight to fourteen people, which for this show usually means two or three couples, or three generations of the same family going to see the band the grandfather put on in the garage forty years ago.

Here is our full Long Island car service coverage if you want the complete picture of how we run Nassau and Suffolk. I have been doing this for 20 years out of Dix Hills, and MetLife runs are a core part of what we do every season.

You waited a long time for this one. The car will be there.

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