John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) sits on the shore of Jamaica Bay in the borough of Queens, New York, the busiest international gateway in the United States by overseas passenger traffic. Built on filled marshland in the late 1940s and once called Idlewild, it was renamed for the assassinated president in 1963.

A ring of terminals operated by different airlines surrounds a central area, and the airport handles flights to more international destinations than almost any other in the country. It anchors, with LaGuardia and Newark, one of the busiest airspaces in the world over metropolitan New York.

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