Like New York, Paris Has Designs For A Center-City Airport
Looks like New York isn't the first to dream up improbable city-center airports; Paris had the idea back in 1932. Instead of paving runways into Central Park, as the New York plan calls for, the old-timey Paris dream was to install a whole new airport island atop the current location of the Île des Cygnes in the Seine River, just off the Eiffel Tower.
Paris already has a notable island, Île de la Cité, which holds Notre Dame cathedral and more. The addition of this airport would have meant flying tourists onto a Seine island just so that they can go visit another Seine island. Thankfully, the plan for the airport island was scrapped more than half a century ago, and these days, the thin existing island holds the replica of The Statue of Liberty, a pleasant walkway, and a subway stop.
So who's next? Should we entertain the idea of flipping the National Mall in DC into an Air Force One landing strip? Although that would make for awesome plane-spotting, ideas like this belong, as with the Manhattan one and this vintage Paris plan, in the annals of urban planning fantasy.
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