#Gov. Cuomo unveils gleaming new arrivals terminal at LaGuardia Airport
“#Gov. Cuomo unveils gleaming new arrivals terminal at LaGuardia Airport”
June 10, 2020 | 2:40pm | Updated June 10, 2020 | 2:53pm
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday unveiled the newly opened arrivals and departures terminal at LaGuardia Airport during his daily coronavirus briefing.
“LaGuardia Airport is going to be the first new airport in the United States of America in 25 years,” a beaming Cuomo told reporters alongside Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Executive Director Rick Cotton while seated in the new terminal.
“This is not just a new airport. This is, build a new airport while you are operating the old airport,” the governor said. “This is, renovate your home while you’re living in the home.”
The new Terminal B Arrivals and Departures Hall is now officially open and will have its first flights go out on Saturday.
The new terminal — which is part of a large-scale $8 billion redevelopment of the northern Queens airport — is 50 percent bigger than the old terminal it replaces.
The terminal features “extensive new concessions,” which are mostly “iconic local concessions,” said Cotton, adding that it doubles “the offering available in the facility.”
Cotton called the completion of the spacious, four-story terminal “a major milestone.”
“Every single legacy passenger building torn down, with the exception of the landmarked Marine Air Terminal,” Cotton said.
“In their place, a new state-of-the-art airport worthy of New York, with a wholly new roadway network. … LaGuardia will be the first new airport in the country in more than 25 years.”
LaGuardia’s ongoing transformation makes it go “From worst airport in the country to the best. From appalling substandard to 21st Century best-in-class. From the laughingstock on ‘Saturday Night Live’ skits to bringing into reality the extraordinary vision of Gov. Cuomo to have a world-class airport worthy of New York,” said Cotton.
Cuomo said the renovation was needed “30 years ago” as he described what La Guardia was as “an embarrassment.”
“We needed this. We needed this today. We needed to see light at the end of a tunnel. We needed to see New York shine,” Cuomo said of the overhaul before a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
In 2014, then-Vice President Joe Biden infamously said that LaGuardia Airport was something out of a “Third World country.”
Cotton referred to Biden’s remarks during the press briefing.
“This spacious 840,000-square-foot, four-story facility, paired with a new network of access roadways, will provide travelers with a 21st-century airport experience — a far cry from Joe Biden’s famous condemnation of La Guardia as ‘Third World,’” Cotton said.
Reconstruction on the airport began four years ago and is slated to be completed in 1.5 years.
Meanwhile, during the press conference, Cuomo said that the state’s phased reopening from its coronavirus-induced slumber should be viewed as an opportunity to “stimulate the economy.”
“Let’s not just reopen, but have an affirmative strategy that energizes the reopening,” Cuomo said, adding, “Now is the time to do large scale development projects.”
“Our goal is not to just reopen. Our goal is to stimulate the economy. Regrow better than before,” the governor said.
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