Finding it
Hudson: Queens Beat is in Gate A8 in Terminal 4 near Gate A8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is airside, past the security checkpoint, so allow for the queue before you count on it.
- Nearest gates
- Gate A8
- Level
- 3
Terminal 4 has 47 places to eat and 39 shops in this directory; the earliest opens at 12am.
Hours against the security queue
Hudson: Queens Beat opens at 6am and closes at 11pm. FlyIndex's wait-time data puts the typical JFK checkpoint queue at 28 minutes around 6am.
Across the week, JFK security runs longest around 8am at a median of 33 minutes, and lightest around 2am at 10 minutes. The queue is typically building before this location opens.
Queue figures are medians from FlyIndex's JFK wait-time record, not a live reading.
About this location
This one sits at Gate A8, on the A concourse rather than the B run where most of Terminal 4's other Hudson shops cluster. It closes at 11:00 PM, an hour before the Delta Sky Club at the same gate, which keeps its doors open until 11:30 PM for members arriving on the last inbound flights. Beacon Bar & Kitchen, two gates down at A11, opens an hour earlier at 5:00 AM but closes at the same 11:00 PM mark. No cuisine is attached here, just travel essentials, which separates the shelf format from the food-carrying Hudson stops elsewhere in the terminal.
What to expect
- Travel essentials
Other options in Terminal 4
All past the same checkpoint, so you can reach them without clearing security again.
Sources
- Hudson: Queens Beat, Terminal 4 - John F. Kennedy International Airport — John F. Kennedy International Airport, checked 2026-09-10
Official Travel Resources
1 verified external links from airport operators and U.S. agencies.