LaGuardia Airport

Airport · Queens

LaGuardia Airport occupies about 680 acres in East Elmhurst, Queens, bordering Flushing Bay.

  • 1.10 square miles
  • 29 street corners
  • 6 bus routes

The site was a summer resort called Bowery Bay Beach in the 1880s and a private seaplane base from 1929; the city's municipal airport opened here on December 2, 1939, and is named for Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who had long promoted aviation. The Port Authority has operated it since 1947, and a complete rebuilding finished new Terminals B and C in the 2020s, while the Marine Air Terminal, its original terminal for overseas flights, is a designated landmark.

Sources: LaGuardia Airport (Wikipedia); LaGuardia Airport Transformation: A World-Class Experience (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey).

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LaGuardia Airport borders two areas, and Grand Central Parkway and La Guardia Airport Exit hold more of its corners than any other street, eight each of 29.

Street map of LaGuardia Airport, Queens, outlined among East Elmhurst and Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway.East ElmhurstAstoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway
  • LaGuardia Airport
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of LaGuardia Airport.

  • 6 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M60-SBS
  • Q33
  • Q69
  • Q70-SBS
  • Q72
  • Q90

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 42 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 1.4 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 26 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at one of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Landmarks

Designated landmark
The Marine Air Terminal

Streets and trees

Trees
103 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, black locust and tree of heaven
Street with the most corners
Grand Central Parkway, with eight of the area's 29

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.