EWR car rental

New reader of very helpful posts and 1st time visitor to New York so please bear with me. We are excited to get to spend a week in New York!

We are flying into EWR at 11:30 pm.(Family of 4 adults) Staying at Courtyard Marriott at LGA (inexpensive group rate makes it more than worth it.) We will need a rental car for traveling to visit friends so my question was is it safe to rent one at that time of night and drive to hotel at LGA? We will have a navigation system. Is it a very long drive? I am thinking traffic should be light. Or should we stay at a Newark hotel and rent a car in the morning?

Thank you in advance for your help and suggestions!

EWR car rental

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