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Does New York Need Another Airport? How About In Manhattan?

Anyone living in the New York City area can vouch for the fact that our trio of JFK Airport, LaGuardia and Newark-Liberty makes for some very crowded air space. So perhaps we need another airport to alleviate the stress on those three—and maybe we'll plonk this new airport down right in the center of Manhattan to make it super accessible?

Of course a Manhattan airport, even another New York City-area airport, is a crazy idea, and so we're happy that the so-called Manhattan Airport Foundation is a joke ... or is it? The Foundation, a "land-use constituency committed to the immediate development of a viable and centrally-located international air transportation hub in New York City for the benefit of all New Yorkers," propose tearing up Central Park and turning this massive plot of primo land into an airfield.

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