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8 The Courier sun • OCTOBER 1, 2015 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com Deal approved to turn JFK’s historic TWA Flight Center into hotel complex BY ANTHONY GIUDICE agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @A_GiudiceReport The long-range lease deal to turn the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) into a hotel complex has been approved by the Port Authority’s Board of Commissioners, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sept. 24. The project calls for a 75-year lease agreement with Flight Center Hotel LLC, a partnership of MCR Development and JetBlue Airways Corporation, to remake the TWA Flight Center and its nearly 6-acre site into JFK’s only on-airport hotel. “This administration has committed to modernizing New York’s airports for the 21st century by creating gateways ENVISION YOUR FUTURE AT BISHOP KEARNEY! 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Guglielmo - Principal worthy of New York City and ensuring travelers have the services they need,’’ Cuomo said. “At the TWA Flight Center, we are able to meet those goals while also preserving its iconic design for passengers to enjoy for decades to come.” Astonishingly, JFK is one of the few U.S. airports that does not have an onairport hotel. This $265 million project, which is expected to break ground in 2016, will create 3,700 jobs — including approximately 2,500 union construction and restoration jobs — and is expected to open for use in 2018. This new hotel will include 505 hotel rooms, 40,000 square feet of meeting space, restaurants, a spa and a 10,000-square-foot observation deck. The complex will also feature two sixstory hotel towers and a micro-grid energy management system, allowing the building to generate its own power. The hotel complex will pay homage to the airport’s golden jet age era by preserving the curving 1960s-era stark white concourse with plush-red lounge area, designed by legendary architect Eero Saarinen. “We are proud to help advance Governor Cuomo’s plan to modernize our region’s aviation infrastructure by bringing the TWA Flight Center, the most storied symbol of the Jet Age, back to life,” said Tyler Morse, MCR Development CEO. “Accessible to the general public as well as all airlines from all terminals, the 505-room hotel at the rehabilitated TWA Flight Center will be a tremendous amenity for the entire JFK International Airport. Thank you to Governor Cuomo and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for this incredible opportunity to celebrate and preserve Eero Saarinen’s historic masterpiece while also creating 3,700 construction and permanent jobs and 40,000 square feet of desperately needed onsite meeting space.” Rendering courtesy BerlinRosen Plans to construct a $265 million on-airport hotel at JFK have been approved. Middle Village officer smuggled knives into Rikers Island: investigators BY ROBERT POZARYCKI When the officers alerted their supervisors, prosecutors rpozarycki@queenscourier.com/@robbpoz noted, Martinez allegedly removed a second knife A corrections officer from Middle Village wound from the bag, then concealed it in his hand. Nearby up in a jail cell of his own this week after fellow security cameras taped footage of the removal. guards found him in possession of knives while The officers later recovered the second knife from Martinez, walking into work, according to prosecutors. then found a third one during a search of his locker. Angelo Martinez, 51, failed to pass through the While corrections officers can store firearms in lock security screening area at the Anna M. Kross Center boxes before entering the jail facilities, Department of (AMKC) on Rikers Island at 3 p.m. on Sept. 23. Investigation (DOI) Commissioner Mark Peters noted, Guards reportedly found a folding knife with a Corrections Department (DOC) policy prohibits the 4-inch blade in his duffel bag. storage of knives in employee lockers and jail facilities. Martinez, who has been with the Corrections Department since August 2007, was charged in Bronx Criminal Court with promoting prison contraband. The Corrections Department subsequently suspended him without pay pending the outcome of his case. “This defendant placed his fellow correction officers at risk by trying to conceal and bring in knives to AMKC,” Peters said. “That we were able to quickly find and confiscate these dangerous items is a testament to DOC’s adoption of DOI’s recommendation for better staff screening at jail entrances.”


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