Tuesday, March 28, 2023 – FROM AN AMUSEMENT PARK TO THE BEST AIRPORT IN NEW YORKT
FROM THE ARCHIVES
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2023
ISSUE 950
WHEN LA GUARDIA
WAS THE ONLY AND
BEST AIRPORT IN TOWN
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“DOLLARS FOR DAFFODILS”
UPDATE:
OUR FIRST DONATIONS HAVE ARRIVED
THANK YOU TO RACHEL MAINES AND GLORIA, MARK HERMAN, CAROLINE CAVALLI, MR. & MRS. RICHARD MEYER, NANCY BROWN, ARLENE &STEVE BESSENOFF, MARIE EWALD & DAVID DANZIG, BARRY & JUDY SCHNEIDER, & MICHELLE ROY, ARON EISENPRESIS FOR THEIR DONATIONS.
WE ARE WAITING TO ADD YOUR NAME TO OUR DONOR LIST
We need your help this spring to help us restore and enhance our garden.
Our goal is $2000.00 for a complete restoration of soil, drainage, plantings and fencing.
We will update donations daily. We will list our donors.
Join us in making our garden thrive again.
ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE
TO MAKE YOUR DONATION: https://rihs.us/donation/
TO MAKE YOUR DONATION BY CHECK: R.I.H.S., 531 MAIN STREET, #1704. NY NY 10044
For years La Guardia was known as the worst airport by a certain former Vice President……now it is almost completely rebuilt.
This is when La Guardia was the best and only airport in town!!!
Just for comparison La Guardia is built on only 680 acres, less than 5 times the size of Roosevelt Island
| North Beach Amusement Park was on the site of the North Beach then La Guardia Airport. |
| Proposed Municipal Airport No. 2, North Beach 1934-1945 |
 Rendering, aerial view of landplane base administration building proposed for North Beach Airport. |
 Aerial view, North Beach Airport, 1940 |
 Aerial view, North Beach Airport (Partial rendering)1940 |
 Air view of North Beach Airfield; Parking lots in back of American Airlines hangars. Flushing Bay in rear |
 LaGuardia Airport Terminal seen from the field (dense) |
 LaGuardia or North Beach Airport, American Airlines DC-3 at terminal. |
 https://www.panam.org/war-years/374-marine-air-terminal-laguardia-2 Watch the video of the flight departure in 1939 |
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| La Guardia Airport Rendering – Passenger Terminal Building 1956 Remember when this was the grand plan? |
TUESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
VISITORS WAITING TO ENTER THE TRAM STATION SUNDAY
AT 2 P.M.
NINA LUBLIN, JUDY SCHNEIDER,GLORIA HERMAN, ALEXIS VILLAFANE ALL GOT IT RIGHT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NYC MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JUDITH BERDY
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
All image are copyrighted (c) Roosevelt Island Historical Society unless otherwise indicated
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