JFK is New York City's main gateway, handling 171,000 passengers a day across approximately 1,200 daily flight movements.

JFK Airport, once known as Idlewild, further immortalized John F. Kennedy's legacy post his assassination. Originating as a golf course, Idlewild evolved into an airport after replacing a ...

Commonly known as JFK, the airport opened in the post-World War II era in 1948 as "Idlewild Airport." In the 76 years since its opening, the airport ushered in the era of jet travel, featured ...

Those short airport location identifiers pack a lot more history, logic and hidden meaning than you might expect.

“Delusional” man convicted in paramedic’s killing: Peter Zisopoulos was convicted of stabbing Alison Russo, a paramedic with the city’s Emergency Medical Service, in a seemingly random act of violence ...

This garden spot was Idlewild Airport, as the country’s chief international gateway was known before it became Kennedy Airport in 1963. In the early jet age, only an elite few traveled by air ...

All arriving flights into Terminal 2 at JFK Airport ceased over the weekend. The terminal building, which has been in operation since 1962 and is one of the last remnants of the original Idlewild ...

once popularly known as Idlewild Airport, needed a comprehensive master plan and a total transformation. In the seven years since, builders at John F. Kennedy International Airport have been ...

In 1962, Idlewild Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) opened its centerpiece building: architect Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center. The sexy, curving structure ...

In the late 1950s, at the height of the Jet Age, architect Eero Saarinen designed two airport terminals that would come to define an era: the TWA terminal at Idlewild Airport (later JFK ...

Tourists get a preview of the new Trans World Airlines building under construction in 1961 at Idlewild Airport (later JFK Airport). Credit: Newsday/Jim Nightingale The result, a terminal that from ...