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Early plans from 1957 for Pan Am’s flying saucer-shaped JFK Terminal 3 (now used by Delta) initially included a whopping nine gate positions.
From Beijing to Madrid, cutting-edge designs and innovations are transforming the ways we experience the world’s airports and air travel. How is New York’s airport system, which remains the busiest in the country, [...]

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Sidewalk in the Sky

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Pictured above is not High Line version 1.0, but a bold solution to a growing congestion problem on Broadway circa 1873. When Alfred Speer, a wine merchant and inventor from Passaic opened a store on Broadway near City Hall, he found pedestrians, delivery carts, and omnibus traffic all chaotically jockeying for position on the crowded [...]

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AllWaysNY Photomat

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AWNY Photomat

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Tape recorder repairs on Jamaica Avenue in Queens.

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…While They’re Hot

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American Airlines Terminal 8 at John F. Kennedy International Airport was completed 48 years ago (the airport was still called Idlewild then) and was recently razed to accommodate the airline’s plans for a new mega-terminal on the site. One contentious part of the terminal demolition was what the airline would do with the building’s [...]

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AWNY Video Connection

“The young ladies from Miss Knapp’s select school have an outing at Coney Island N.Y.,” circa 1905.

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