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Recapturing the dream
Author | : Mark Blacklock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Airport terminals |
ISBN | : 9780955050701 |
LaGuardia Airport
Author | : Joshua Stoff |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008-10-27 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1439620539 |
LaGuardia Airport, named for the mayor of New York in the mid 1930s is one of America's busiest airports and has undergone great change throughout the years. Constructed closer to Manhattan than the commercially unsuccessful Floyd Bennett Field, LaGuardia Airport was conceived in the mid-1930s as New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized the need for a great airport for one of the world's great cities. Originally known as New York Municipal Airport, the popular airport soon had its name changed to recognize LaGuardia's enormous contribution to the project. At the time of its opening in 1939, it was the largest and most advanced commercial airport in the world with terminals considered art deco masterpieces. Although a very large airport for the era in which it was built, by the late 1940s it was the world's busiest airport and clearly too small for the increasing amount of air traffic. Through the years its runways were lengthened and facilities were improved to handle larger and faster aircraft. Still one of America's busiest airports, LaGuardia has witnessed the steady progress of American commercial aviation, from flying boats to jetliners.
The Metropolitan Airport
Author | : Nicholas Dagen Bloom |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-08-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0812291646 |
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world's busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK's status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and mammoth air cargo facilities bolstered the region's commerce. In The Metropolitan Airport, Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the untold story of JFK International's complicated and turbulent relationship with the New York City metropolitan region. In spite of its reputation for snarled traffic, epic delays, endless construction, and abrasive employees, the airport was a key player in shifting patterns of labor, transportation, and residence; the airport both encouraged and benefited from the dispersion of population and economic activity to the outer boroughs and suburbs. As Bloom shows, airports like JFK are vibrant parts of their cities and powerfully influence urban development. The Metropolitan Airport is an indispensable book for those who wish to understand the revolutionary impact of airports on the modern American city.
Air Traffic Capacity and Flow Direction Analysis of the New York Metropolitan Area
Author | : United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Commercial |
ISBN | : |
New York State
Author | : Fodor's |
Publisher | : Fodors Travel Publications |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 140001378X |
Presents information on points of interest, accommodations, restaurants, nightlife, outdoor activities, and shopping in New York State.
Designation of New York City Air Terminal
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Airport terminals |
ISBN | : |
Investigates Civil Aeronautics Authority alleged misconduct in designation of La Guardia Airport as destination for eastern air mail delivery.
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Author | : Joshua Stoff |
Publisher | : Arcadia Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2009-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781531642280 |
John F. Kennedy International Airport opened in 1948, after the realization set in that the newly built LaGuardia Airport was unable to handle the volume of air traffic for New York City. Pushed through by New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the airport was to be located 14 miles from Manhattan, in Jamaica Bay, Queens, on the site of the old Idlewild Golf Course. For its first years, Idlewild Airport, as it was originally known, consisted of a low-budget temporary terminal and a series of Quonset huts. A major new building program began in the mid-1950s, and the airport rapidly changed from a ramshackle series of buildings into a glamorous-looking city. Renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1963, it has now grown to cover 5,000 acres.
New York Municipal Airport
Author | : United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Airports |
ISBN | : |