Photograph by Goggla on Flickr
From the Gothamist Newsmap: An aircraft incident at JFK Airport in Queens, a shooting at Macdonough St & Patchen Ave in Brooklyn, and a traffic alert at FDR Drive & Grand St in Manhattan. The man who [...]
Doris Kearns Goodwin was a young woman in her twenties when she became an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Forty years later, her interest in the Oval Office hasn’t waned. She has written on the most famous men to occupy the White House: FDR, JFK, Lincoln and–her newest subject–Teddy [...]
The line for a taxi at JFK, via Pazzia's Flickr. The holidays must be a lucrative time for drivers who lure passengers into their unlicensed taxis at airports, but the Port Authority is making it tough for them this year. Yesterday Queens [...]
During the first nine months of the year, LaGuardia, Newark, and JFK have maintained the worst record for on-time arrivals among the 31 major U.S. air hubs, according to the FAA. And because so many flights pass through these hubs, nearly three-quarters of all [...]
Today is the 8th anniversary of Flight 587, the American Airlines flight that crashed into Belle Harbor, Queens in 2001. The flight had taken off from JFK Airport, on its way to the Dominican Republic; turbulent air led the co-pilot to use the rudder [...]
On Thursday, a 20-pound engine tail cone fell from a Boeing 777 plane headed from JFK Airport to Tokyo and onto the front yard of Michelle Russell in Roosevelt, Long Island. The Delta crew only realized the four-foot piece of metal was missing after it [...]
Add this to the list of the ways drugs are smuggled into the JFK Airport: WABC 7 reports that earlier this month, "A Worcester, MA resident apparently tried to stroll past U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers at JFK airport with nearly 7 pounds" [...]
