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LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) (/ l ə ˈ ɡ w ɑːr d i ə / lə-GWAR-dee-ə) – colloquially known as LaGuardia or simply LGA – is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, situated on the northwestern shore of Long Island, bordering Flushing Bay.
In Tel Aviv, LaGuardia Street and LaGuardia interchange are named in his honor. [149] A street in Rijeka, Croatia, is named after Fiorello La Guardia. La Guardia worked in Rijeka as a U.S. Consular Agent from 1903 to 1906, when the city was known as Fiume and was under Hungarian administration.
Laguardia (Basque: Guardia) is a town and municipality located in the southern province of Álava, in the north of Spain; it belongs to the region of Rioja Alavesa ...
A flight from LaGuardia Airport to North Carolina was diverted to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday evening due to a reported bird strike, according to American Airlines.
May 29 United Airlines Flight 521 crashed after aborting takeoff, 43 of the 48 aboard were killed. [2]August 8 American Airlines Flight 765, a cargo flight, crashed into Flushing Bay while returning to LGA due to engine problems, both pilots and one passenger of the 5 aboard died.
LaGuardia began renting space in the building in 1973, occupying 71,000 square feet (6,600 m 2) of space. [104] [106] It was the original home of Middle College High School when it opened in 1974. [106] In 1984, the college began leasing the second and third floors of the building, in addition to the basement and first floor already in use. [107]
The LaGuardia Airport subway extension is a proposed extension of the New York City Subway's BMT Astoria Line (currently served by the N and W trains) to connect to LaGuardia Airport, which has never had an airport rail link. Such a connection was first proposed in 1943, when LaGuardia was already surrounded by development.
Fiorello! is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia, a reform Republican, which debuted on Broadway in 1959, and tells the story of how La Guardia took on the Tammany Hall political machine.