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www.MetroAirportNews.com Serving the Airport Workforce and Local Communities June 2019 INSIDE THIS ISSUE JFK’s TWA Hotel Is Open for Business At last, the long-awaited opening of the TWA Hotel has happened. On May 15th, the TWA Hotel opened its doors to the public and a long- line of media people and invited guests. The neo-futurist hotel is the only on-airport prop- erty hotel at JFK. 06 The hotel’s designers saved that architec- tural gem, the Eero Saarinen designed TWA JFK Chamber Hosts Flight Center, and made it an integral part of First Event at Newly the facility. The Flight Center will serve as its Opened TWA Hotel reception area and lobby. The Flight Center, which was also known as the Trans World Flight Center welcomed pas- sengers starting in 1962. Both the exterior and interior of the building were declared land- marks by the New York City Landmarks Pres- ervation Commission in 1994. The design features a prominent wing- shaped thin shell roof over the main terminal focusing on Eero Saarinen’s original design as “Our proposal was to shave off the old and tube-shaped, red-carpeted departure-ar- a sculpture, and looking at how the world had pieces of the building and take it back to its 11 rival corridors. Its tall windows – unusual for moved on around it, with elevated roadways 1962 original, the way that Saarinen had envi- the time period – offered travelers expansive and new terminals surrounding the space. The sioned it, so we get that beautiful form again,” JFK Airport’s Terminal 4 views of airport operations. The hotel archi- terminal had been expanded in the 1970s, and Lubrano said. Launches Aira Access for tects, Lubrano and Ciavarra started by now touched the edges of the available space. Continued On Page 3 Blind and Low Vision Travelers The Kiwanis Club of LaGuardia Airport Celebrates 78 Years of Service The Kiwanis Club of LaGuardia Airport held This year’s honoree was Loretta Bove, Man- thoughtful participant in many philanthropic their 46th Annual Charity Ball celebrating 78 aging Director at LGA for American Airlines. activities, and a mentor to so many in the avia- years of service to the community. Kiwanis Loretta is both an outstanding leader at LGA, a tion industry. ■ 23 LGA is the only Airport Kiwanis Club in the world. Their mission is to serve children and Vaughn College Celebrates seniors in the community. International Drone Day Shanel Thomas, the president of the LGA Ki- wanis Club has a motto that helps shape the di- rection of the club: “We must prepare the next generation to ascend beyond what we have achieved; if they can begin their journey where Your Best Source we end ours, that’s’ true progress”. The Kiwanis Club of LGA is best known for for Airport Jobs sending kids to camp, providing scholarships and of course LaGuardia Kids Day. All of this wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of PAGE 26 the people and businesses from the airport that support the Annual Charity Ball. 2 Metropolitan Airport News | June 2019 www.MetroAirportNews.com Annual Charitable Giving Program PUBLISHER Kathryn Bliss Dear Metropolitan Airport News Readers, [email protected] EDITOR-IN-CHIEF This our 3rd year (and going strong) supporting the USO of Metropolitan Joseph Alba New York. With the help of our corporate sponsors, we have successfully [email protected] donated over $25,000 to local charities. The USO has been the benefi- CREATIVE DIRECTOR ciary of nearly $15,000 of our Charitable Giving Campaigns. We ask that you Raymond F. Ringston [email protected] help us keep this going in 2019, and support the USO centers right here in our own backyard! 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The font mirrors the typeface Saarinen Is Open for Business who of celebrities and important figures of the The Eero Saarinen-designed landmark ter- designed for the TWA Flight Center and is used Continued from page 1 time. The experience getting to your destina- minal will serve as the reception area as well as on signage throughout the hotel. tion was just as important as to what was await- the location for the restaurants and bars. Trav- The hotel was built by MCR Development in Present at the ribbon cutting event was Gov- ing you when you got there. No one did it better elers will be able to access Terminal 5, the ter- partnership with JetBlue, which operates Ter- ernor Cuomo, who took the dais to deliver a than TWA at that time. What Tyler Morse and minal that replaced the TWA Flight Center, minal 5, 22 government agencies and 174 firms. very positive statement on the hotel; “This re- MCR did was breathe life back into a space and through one of the tubes that originally took As Tyler Morse noted, “It Takes a Village”.