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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Breathtaking

Credit: Cynthia Drescher
Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Entering a tube from JetBlue's Terminal 5

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Inside one of the two tubes

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Exiting a tube into the Flight Center

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
TWA signage is still up

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Check-in and ticketing desks are hidden away to the right immediately after entering

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Looking down to the main entrance

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
A lecture goes on at the main departures board

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The departures board at the entrance

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Looking down on the main first floor area

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Looking towards the Lisbon Lounge and Paris Cafe

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
A few walls are wallpapered with the history of the building

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Looking down on the seating area from the second level

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Looking into the seating area from the center of the second level bridge

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The Departures board that would've been backed by a view of the planes

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Showing current departures

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The sunken, scarlet seating area

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Standing at the windows in the seating area, under the Departures board

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The scarlet seating area (with the JetBlue terminal out the big windows)

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Those who sat here in the 1960s would have a heart attack to see this now

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The second level's bridge and ceiling clock

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Looking down from the bridge

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The floors and stairs are made of these round, ceramic tiles

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
A bar in the Lisbon Lounge

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The view from the Paris Cafe

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Areas are still closed during restoration

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Seating in the first floor Constellation Club

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
This is why we can't have nice things.

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
The windows in the upper class lounge

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Terminal 5's TWA Flight Center
Beautiful day to hit the skies

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Inside the TWA Flight Center on October 16, 2011

The old TWA Flight Center designed by Eero Saarinen is on the National Register of Historic Places and is slowly being restored. It opened to the public for four hours on Sunday, October 16, 2011.

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