Arrivology
Tips on easing your trip to or from New York City:
Flying
You want to fly into LaGuardia, Kennedy or Newark, NJ. If you are buying your tickets online, most travel sites will let you punch in "NYC" as the airport code, letting you search all three airports at once, rather than typing LGA, JFK and EWR.
US Helicopter, which provided transfers from the airports to Manhattan, suspended all operations in 2009. Currently, there is no ferry from LaGuardia either.
Also see: FAA’s current airport conditions
TSA’s items prohibited in carry-ons
LIRR to Long Island MacArthur Airport (LIMA)
Stewart Airport in the Hudson Valley
NewYorkology Basics: From the airport to Manhattan
Resources: Airfare Watchdog, Seat Guru and Airline Quality.
Amtrak – Before booking, check their website specials. You want to come to Penn Station, New York, which also serves NJ Transit, the Long Island Rail Road and several subway lines.
Bus
LimoLiner is the business-class bus from Boston; on the cheaper end there's MegaBus, BoltBus, and the Chinatown buses. There's also Greyhound, the Hampton Jitney and Peter Pan.
There's no need to drive, really.
31 percent rise in airplane birdstrikes in NYC - Newsday
Airplane birdstrikes have increased 31 percent in the past two years at New York City’s primary airports, Newsday reports today citing information culled from FAA data.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Wildlife Strike Database says collisions with wildlife (usually birds) were up 40 percent at JFK, 32 percent at LaGuardia and 16 percent at Newark, according to Newsday.
The city’s most famous birdstrike incident happened Jan. 15, 2009 when US Airways 1549 hit a flock of fat Canadian geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia and safely landed in the Hudson River.
A spokesman for Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the airports, told Newsday that while birdstrikes are up, damage to planes is not. The airports have been trying to reduce the risk in a number of ways including decreasing nesting areas and eliminating standing water.
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April 29, 2012 11:26 AM Comments (0)
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Space shuttle Enterprise lands in New York City
The space shuttle test vehicle Enterprise today arrived in New York City, passing by the State of Liberty and other landmarks before landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
 Sometime in June, the Enterprise will be placed on a barge that tugboats will guide up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Later this summer, the Enterprise will go on display to the public as part of the museum’s permanent collection. Initially the shuttle will be on the flight deck of the Intrepid, but ultimately will get its own facility, possibly across the street from the aircraft carrier.
The Enterprise today arrived piggyback on a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with two T-38 aircraft serving as “photo support.”
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April 27, 2012 11:19 AM Comments (0)
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NASA reschedules Enterprise NYC trip for April 27
Update: The Enterprise space shuttle landed April 27.
New York City will have to wait just a little longer for the final voyage of the space shuttle Enterprise.
For the second time, the weather has caused NASA to reschedule the flight of the Enterprise to New York from Washington. The new tentative date is Friday morning, April 27, the space agency announced today.
Previously, the flight had been scheduled for April 23 and then April 25. A large region of low pressure over the east coast has made it difficult to predict an ideal flight day, NASA said.
“Once officially approved, NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with Enterprise mounted atop will fly at a relatively low altitude over various parts of the New York City metropolitan area on Friday,” NASA stated in a news release. “The Federal Aviation Administration is coordinating the flight, which is scheduled to occur between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. EDT, weather permitting. The exact route and timing depend on weather and operational constraints. … If all goes as planned, the aircraft is expected to fly near a variety of landmarks in the New York metropolitan area, including the Statue of Liberty and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.”
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April 24, 2012 12:57 PM Comments (0)
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A/C/E halted 10pm-5am this week for maintenance
 The Metropolitan Transportation Authority tonight will begin its fourth section of overnight Fastrack work, this time completely stopping service on major sections of the A/C/E lines from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
The A, C and E trains will be completely suspended in both directions from Columbus Circle in Manhattan to Jay Street/MetroTech in Brooklyn for four consecutive weeknights. Regular overnight service will resume Friday morning at 5 a.m.
The trains will run alternate routes, including the A train on the D line between 59th Street/Columbus Circle and 47th/50th Streets stations and then on the F line to Jay Street in Brooklyn.
The overnight closures allow MTA workers to complete a significant number of maintenance projects without stopping for trains on the tracks or people in the stations.
The next Fastrack overnight closure will return to the 1/2/3 lines from 34th Street-Penn Station to Atlantic Avenue for four nights beginning Monday, April 9.
In addition, JFK Airport’s AirTrain will suspend most of its route overnights starting tonight from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. due to terminal construction. At nights, AirTrain JFK will operate only between Jamaica Station and Federal Circle Station with free shuttle buses replacing the rest of the route. The AirTrain disruption will continue through May 11.
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March 12, 2012 11:00 AM Comments (0)
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Space shuttle Enterprise to arrive at JFK on April 23
 Update: The Enterprise space shuttle landed April 27.
The Enterprise space shuttle test vehicle will arrive in New York City on April 23, landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on the back of a NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, officials for the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum announced today.
Sometime in June, the Enterprise will travel by barge to its new home at the Intrepid, passing both the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center site. The shuttle will then be lifted by crane and placed on the flight deck of the Intrepid. It will go on exhibit to the public starting this summer in a temporary climate-controlled pavilion. The museum still hopes to build a permanent exhibit facility for the Enterprise.
“We are immensely excited about Enterprise’s landing at JFK, and are readying the Intrepid for her arrival,” museum president Susan Marenoff-Zausner said in a statement announcing the arrival date. “Introducing Enterprise to New York is a landmark occasion and marks the beginning of Enterprise’s next mission, which is to inspire a new generation of scientists, engineers and researchers and serve as a reminder that anything is possible.”
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March 1, 2012 3:35 PM
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Enterprise shuttle to arrive at Intrepid in 2012
The title to the Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise today was officially transferred from NASA to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, which plans to hoist the test vehicle onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier this summer, museum officials announced.
In the spring of 2012, the Enterprise will be flown to JFK Airport from Washington D.C., where it has already undergone renovations courtesy of the Smithsonian. In the summer, the Enterprise will be floated on a barge up the Hudson River to Pier 86 and set on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid “under a protective covering,” according to the museum’s announcement. “The public will have the ability to see the shuttle while visiting the Intrepid.”
A British Airways Concorde made a similar journey when it arrived at the Intrepid in 2008.
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November 22, 2011 6:48 PM Comments (0)
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TWA Terminal at JFK could reopen before 2012
For the first time in a decade, the public was allowed inside the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Terminal at Kennedy Airport on Sunday as openhousenewyork secured access to show off the iconic structure.
“This is the quintessential airport building representing flight,” said Charles Kramer, an architect from Beyer Blinder Belle who worked on the 20,000-square-foot main-lobby restoration project.
About 800 to 1,000 people trekked out to JFK, most toting cameras, for the sneak preview on Sunday, according to OHNY estimates. But for everyone who missed Sunday’s debut, they may not have to wait long for another opportunity.
“We’re talking about opening this up to the public on a limited basis,” Jim Stevens, the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Manager of JFK’s Physical Plant and Redevelopment, said Sunday. “I would like to be able to say before the new year,” but budgeting issues may delay that, he said.
Ideally they’d do it with consistent hours, he said, such as every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. They’re also considering which hours would be best in order to offer a diversity of light, which changes dramatically as the sun creates different beams as it shines through Saarinen’s design.
The Port Authorty hopes to find private companies to run operations in the old TWA building. Earlier this year, more than 20 hotel representatives were allowed to tour the site with an eye toward developing bids to run a hotel there (without displacing any of the restoration work that’s just been completed.)
The hotel project is still a possibility though it “isn’t going to happen for a while,” Stevens said.
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October 17, 2011 7:26 AM Comments (1)
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TWA Terminal added to openhousenewyork
 openhousenewyork has landed a big addition to its weekend of architectural offerings: JFK’s empty TWA Terminal designed by Eero Saarinen, OHNY spokesperson Linda G. Miller told NewYorkology.
The terminal will be open for free, no-reservation access from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16.
In February, the Wall Street Journal reported that Andre Balazs was considering opening a boutique hotel in the space.
Update as of Oct. 9: The OHNY blog has added more details about the event and posted new pictures from inside the building. On Sunday, both Charles Kramer, the architect from Beyer Blinder Belle, who is leading the restoration of the building and James Stevens, the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Manager of JFK Physical Plant and Redevelopment, will be on site to talk about the project.
Miller told NewYorkology there is a talk scheduled at 1 p.m.
And yes, photography will be allowed, she said.
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October 7, 2011 6:03 PM
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Helicopter crashes into East River, rescue underway
“Emergency personnel responding to a helicopter down off the FDR Drive Near East 34th Street,” the city’s Office Emergency Management said at 3:40 p.m. today.
 A CBS helicopter showed images of at least one person clinging to a portion of the upside-down submerged helicopter before it sank.
The rescue operation is taking place on the Manhatan side of the East River, near the 34th Street Heliport.
Four of the five people believed onboard have been accounted for, CBS is reporting as of 4 p.m.
“The pilot and three passengers are out of the water,” Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman told the New York Times . “And one is unaccounted for.”
The privately-owned chopper was apparently trying to land at the helipad, according to the Daily News .
The East River water temperature is about 68 degrees and the current is “retty strong” at 2 to 3 miles per hour, according the NY1 weather report. Right now the East River is flowing north because of the high tide, NY1 said. The East River (which is not a river but a tidal strait,) actually changes direction four times a day and within an hour will start flowing to the south.
At 4:25 p.m. the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed it’s coordinating the search for one missing person from helicopter incident.
At 4:55, the FDNY said the fifth person has been located and did not survive.
The fifth person was trapped in the helicopter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a 5:40 p.m. press conference. It was unclear if she was conscious as the helicopter submerged, he said.
“To the best of our knowledge it was a private helicopter from Linden N.J. now whether it was owned by a company or an individual at this point we just don’t know. Apparently the pilot knew the passengers and had come over to pick them up,” Bloomberg said.
As the mayor concluded his press conference, he said the helicopter remained in the river.
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October 4, 2011 3:45 PM Comments (0)
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Extra police presence, but no specific threat to NYC
 Although police presence will be stepped up and a world-wide advisory has been issued for the “potential for anti-American violence,” there is no specific threat to New York City in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden, according to the NYPD police commissioner.
“While there is no information indicating a specific threat to New York City, members of the service are reminded to remain alert in the aftermath of the announcement that Osama Bin Laden has been killed,” NYC Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a statement following the president’s announcement, NY1 reports.
The U.S. Department of State last night issued a world-wide alert for U.S. citizens traveling and residing abroad, warning of the “potential for anti-American violence given recent counter-terrorism activity in Pakistan.”
Extra police have been sent to the World Trade Center site and the New York City area airports, DNAinfo.com reports.
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May 2, 2011 7:01 AM Comments (0)
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