President Biden, Gov. Cuomo announce LaGuardia Airport will be rebuilt

Andrew Cuomo on Monday introduced a plan to redesign and rebuild LaGuardia airport, replacing the cramped, outdated hub with a unified terminal that will have more than double the operational space for airliners.

That half would be a $4 billion project managed by LaGuardia Gateway Partners, a new public private partnership that the port authority has chosen to do the project.

As for what won’t be changing at LaGuardia, the airport’s Marine Air Terminal (also known as Terminal A) will be preserved.

According to CNBC’s Reem Nasr, Cuomo told the audience that numerous approvals that would have taken years to complete were expedited by the vice president’s office. The airport will get its own new hotel, set to create about 3,700 jobs, Gov. Cuomo said.

The new airport will be moved about 600 feet closer to the Grand central Parkway to create more space for flight operation, the governor said.

“I wish everything I said that was truthful but controversial turned out this way”, the vice president said.

“This is not a plan, it’s not a dream, it’s not a sketch”, Cuomo said.

“It’s slow, it’s dated, it has a awful front-door entrance way to New York”, Mr Cuomo said. “It requires a 21st century infrastructure”.

Authorities in New Jersey say a medical school bound EMT on her final shift was killed when a vehicle collided with an ambulance heading to a call in a neighboring town.

The Guide to Sleeping in Airports rated LaGuardia as the 10th worst airport in the world in 2014, singling out security lines, drab decor, lackluster cleanliness and unhelpful staff.

New York’s bid was selected from among three finalists competing for the project since it was announced by President Barack Obama’s administration last fall as part of efforts to strengthen American manufacturing.

Mr. Cuomo said that an advisory panel, led by real estate magnate Dan Tishman, studied possible solutions for the beleaguered facility and concluded “there is no way to fix this, we need to tear it down”.

On Friday, Christie lashed out at Amtrak, decrying their “abject neglect” of infrastructure that NJ Transit pays to use, but made no mention of his past veto or any immediate proposals to construct new tunnels.