22 The Queens Courier • JULY 30, 2015 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com Photos courtesy of Gov. Cuomo’s office LaGuardia Airport TO GET $4 BILLION, ‘21ST-CENTURY’ OVERHAUL BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO [email protected]/@aaltamirano28 After Vice President Joe Biden compared it to a “third-world country,” LaGuardia Airport is getting a much-needed makeover bringing it to the 21st century and allowing New York City to start to once again lead in infrastructure. Gov. Andrew Cuomo was joined by Biden on July opportunity. It’s almost universally decried as a as a wake-up call to a city that at one point in history 27 to announce that the Queens airport would be poor representation of an airport let alone a New was leading the way in infrastructure. receiving a complete redesign taking it from a 1939 York airport,” Cuomo said. “It was a strong, some would say prophetic airport to a globally renowned, state-of-the-art facility. Bringing up the vice president’s comments vision, which I believe in many ways is an impetus “LaGuardia is slow. It’s dated. It’s a terrible last year that referred to LaGuardia Airport as a to say to New York, ‘Get up, move.’ This is not front door entranceway to New York. It is a lost “third-world country,” Cuomo said that it served acceptable and it’s not acceptable for New York,”
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