Dingy LaGuardia Airport undergoing $3.6B makeover

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http://www.adn.com/2014/01/19/3281266/dingy-laguardia-airport-undergoing.html



In this Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, Layla House does some work as she waits for a flight to her home in East Texas, at New York's LaGuardia Airport. "It does not represent what people think of when they think of New York and Broadway shows and glamour. It's not very pretty,” the sales manager for a medical supply said, referring to the airport.

Dingy LaGuardia Airport undergoing $3.6B makeover
By FRANK ELTMAN
Associated Press
January 19, 2014

NEW YORK — Dark, dingy, cramped and sad. These are some of the ways travelers describe LaGuardia Airport, a bustling hub often ranked in customer satisfaction surveys as the worst in America.

"It does not represent what people think of when they think of New York and Broadway shows and glamour. It's not very pretty," said Layla House, a sales manager for a medical supply company who travels from her home in Bullard, Texas, to New York at least six times a year.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced the state is taking control of an ambitious $3.6 billion construction project that envisions an entirely new central terminal at LaGuardia, with vast open spaces, restaurants, shopping plazas, new parking garages, free Wi-Fi and other amenities now common in other airports. Cuomo also wants to develop a plan to upgrade cargo operations at nearby John F. Kennedy International Airport.

"We are going to redevelop those airports the way they should have been redeveloped many, many years ago," Cuomo said in his annual State of the State address.



unhappycamper comment: At one point in my New England Telephone/Bell Atlantic/Bell Atlantic/Verizon career, I was taking three trips a week from Boston to NYC, All of those shuttle flights landed in, and took off from LaGuardia. LaGuardia in the winter was always a puckering experience.