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Focuses on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's restoration of the circular terminal building at La Guardia Airport in New York City. Total worth of the rehabilitation project; Port authority's commitment to the contruction of a World Trade Center transportation hub; Phases of restoration effort.

Provides information about the display of the words of the Bill of Rights in the International Arrivals Building at Kennedy Airport in New York City. Background on the concept; Reason behind the move.

DENVER -- Could airport security gardens be the wave of the future? (''Please have photo ID and boarding pass ready and walk past the rhododenrons.'') How about a defensive line of bomb-sniffing tulips in Central Park in New York, or at the local shopping mall's indoor waterfall, or lining the streets of Baghdad? Researchers at Colorado State University said Wednesday that they had created the platform for just such a plant-kingdom early warning system: plants that subtly change color when exposed to minute amounts of TNT in the air. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NEW YORK CITY opened its first municipal airport in May 1931 with a grand ceremony for Floyd Bennett Field, at the end of Flatbush Avenue where the eastern fringe of Brooklyn meets Jamaica Bay. A crowd of thousands craned their necks and held on to their hats as fighter planes staged mock battles against an overcast sky and an armada of bombers thundered past. Today only radio-controlled model airplanes, armadas of geese and traffic from John F. Kennedy Airport tend to appear in the sky over Floyd Bennett Field. But the runways, old hangars and waterfront are far from idle. Decommissioned in the early 1970s, the airfield became part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area. The Park Service has preserved the historic look and feel of the airfield while seeding an area larger than Central Park with things to do and see, from camping and gardening to bicycle races, kayaking, fishing, golf and indoor sports. There's even an archery range and a cricket pitch. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on significant improvements at the Terminal 5s (T5s) of the Heathrow Airport in London, England and the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It notes that one of the magnificent aspects to the building of the T5 of the Heathrow Airport is its lobby of 96 kiosks. It cites that the new T5 at the Heathrow has space to have its crew rooms at the airport. There are touch-screen monitors in gate seating areas of the New York airport where one can order freshly prepared food.

Reports that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has shut down an art exhibit in Terminal 5 of Kennedy Airport. How an out of hand opening night party left destruction of the building; Failure of curator Rachel K. Ward to control the lawlessness of the guests; Contents of the exhibition of contemporary art on the theme of airports and air travel which was to have run through the end of January 2005 in the Eero Saarinen designed building.

Relates the author's experience spending days and nights at J.F.K. International Airport in New York City. Reference to Steven Spielberg's film, "The Terminal," starring Tom Hanks; Why most people try to spend as little time as possible in airports; Thoughts on the environment inside airports; How, as the movie suggests, airports have a life of their own; Experiences in the airport; Observations; People the author met while in the airport.

Focuses on the work of New York City designer Vito Acconci. Sources of inspiration; Evidence of antisociability in early work; His design of a perimeter fence at the Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant in New York City, a US Airways terminal at the Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, a convention center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City; Comments on his work.