[NYguy]

Originally Posted by JZeig1

PROPOSAL: Biden-LaGuardia National Airport

Originally Posted by N830MH

I'm sure they will rename it. Change the name from LaGuardia to Biden-LaGuardia National airport. They will considering this.

It will remain LaGuardia's airport.



https://www.airportvoice.com/stories...2020-06-q.html

Welcoming words to world travelers at new Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport


June 10, 2020

Port Authority Executive Director Rick Cotton stands in front of many quotes from NYC’s Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia lining the newly opened LaGuardia Terminal B Arrivals Hall wall during ribbon cutting and terminal tour June 10.

Here arriving visitors from around the world are greeted with infamous words from the former New Deal Mayor, as LGA is now part of the New Deal airport infrastructure in NYC initiated by Governor Cuomo.

https://classicnewyorkhistory.com/th...ardia-airport/

The ground that LaGuardia Airport stands on was first used for the Gala Amusement Park. The park was run by the Steinway family, founders of the world-renowned Steinway and Sons piano company. The amusement park was torn down in 1929 and the space was converted into an airfield. The private airport was originally named the Glenn H. Curtiss Airport to honor the American aviation pioneer. It was renamed the North Beach Airport in 1935.

Shortly after that, New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia spearheaded the idea to turn the North Beach Airport into an airport for commercial flights. After flying into Newark Commercial Airport, which was the only commercial airport that served the area at the time, the mayor convinced the plane’s pilot to then fly him to Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field. There, La Guardia made his first public appeal at a hastily arranged press conference.

Floyd Bennett Field was the mayor’s first choice, but it was soon passed over due to the newly constructed Queens-Midtown tunnel. North Beach Airport became the city government’s primary focus for a new commercial airfield. Over $20 million was invested in the project. The New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field was dedicated on October 15, 1939 and officially opened for business soon after on December 2.

The airport was initially known as both LaGuardia Field and New York Municipal Airport until the city worked out a lease to switch to control by the Port of New York Authority. The airfield was officially named LaGuardia Airport after the agreement was finalized in June 1947, three months before Fiorello La Guardia passed away from pancreatic cancer.