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This is a list of airports in New York (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Power outages affected nearly 2 million people in New York City, while more than 1 million people lost cellphone service. [3] Statewide, Sandy destroyed about 305,000 homes, mostly related to the high storm surge. [5] In New York City alone, the floodwaters entered the homes of more than 443,000 people and more than 23,400 businesses.
The plans for the Archer Avenue Lines emerged in the 1960s under the city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s Program for Action. [3] The Archer Avenue subway's groundbreaking took place on August 15, 1972, at Archer Avenue and 151st Street, [4] [5] and the station's design started on December 7, 1973.
Quadrant Press, Inc.; New York, 1990. ISBN 0-915276-50-X; Sansone, Gene. Evolution of New York City subways: An illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867–1997. New York Transit Museum Press, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0-9637492-8-4. New York City Subway Cars James Clifford Greller Xplorer Press
The R68A is a B Division New York City Subway car order consisting of 200 cars built between 1988 and 1989 by Kawasaki Railcar Company in Kobe, Japan, with final assembly done at the Kawasaki plant in Yonkers, New York. [5]
The JFK Express, advertised as The Train to The Plane, was a limited express service of the New York City Subway, connecting Midtown Manhattan to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK Airport). It operated between 1978 and 1990.
A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers.
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [77] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.