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Long Island, New York, is the largest island in the continental United States. Its proximity to New York City and favorable topography made it especially good for air flights. At the dawn of the aviation age, Long Island assumed a role as one of the, if not the, aviation capitals of the world.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Airports on Long Island (3 C, ... (state) (12 P) Pages in category "Airports in New York (state)"
Map showing JFK (1) and LaGuardia (2) airports, both in Queens. Long Island is the location of three large airports with regularly scheduled commercial jet airline service. These are the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, both in Queens County (in New York City), and the Long Island MacArthur Airport, (sometimes referred to as the "Islip Airport"), a smaller airport ...
Ithaca Tompkins International Airport: P-N 99,070 New York: JFK: JFK KJFK John F. Kennedy International Airport (was New York International Airport) P-L 30,620,769 New York: LGA: LGA KLGA LaGuardia Airport (and Marine Air Terminal) P-L 15,058,501 Islip / Brookhaven: ISP: ISP KISP Long Island MacArthur Airport: P-S 811,535 Newburgh: SWF: SWF KSWF
Teterboro Airport is the oldest operating airport in the New York metropolitan area. Walter C. Teter (1863–1929) acquired the property in 1917. [9] While other localities had municipal airports, New York City itself had a multitude of private airfields, and thus did not see the need for a municipal airport until the late 1920s.
Long Island has few tall buildings, in contrast to neighboring New York City. Long Island's identity as the birthplace of suburbia involves a desire to maintain the opposite of an urban landscape, with a flat landscape where high-rises are seen to be eyesores that clash with their surroundings, and even three-story buildings can provoke opposition.
The rail network links each airport terminal to the New York City Subway and the Long Island Rail Road at Howard Beach and Jamaica. [77] [78] The airport's new Terminal 1 opened on May 28, 1998; Terminal 4, the $1.4 billion replacement for the International Arrivals Building, opened on May 24, 2001.
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