After a two-year delay due to the pandemic, officials finally broke ground on John F. Kennedy Airport's new international terminal Thursday.
While some New Yorkers have come to accept the region's largest airport as is, others have noticed that the international hub had fallen behind the times. Although the"old" Terminal 1 opened 24 years ago, some areas of the terminal are 60 years old.“It’s a work in progress. Not quite like LaGuardia which is very fancy but we will get there," Cortland Daniel, of Richmond Hill, Queens, said.
What exactly cleared the project for takeoff? Private dollars. The promise of 10,000 jobs, most of those in construction. And a huge team of investors including basketball legend Magic Johnson, who alongside his partners committed $1 billion dollars to the project. “This project is really gonna touch Queens in a big way but also all the passengers that fly out of and come into JFK," Johnson said.
Although most of the money is coming from the private sector, the Port Authority is putting up about $3 billion to fix the roads leading into the airport.
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