Brownstoner

Queenswalk: Come Fly with TWA at JFK, Part 2

When the New York’s Municipal Airport opened in 1939, Trans World Airlines (TWA) was one of the first carriers to sign up for space on its runways. The airport was soon renamed LaGuardia Airport, and ...
Forbes

Dreams Take Flight At JFK’s Iconic TWA Hotel

Remember when flying used to be glamorous? No? Well, it’s time for a stay at the gorgeous TWA Hotel, a welcoming oasis in the chaos and construction that is the current state of New York’s John F.
Dayton Daily News

Updating the landmark TWA terminal at JFK, this time as a hotel

Inside the former TWA Flight Center, which was designed by Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962, at Kennedy International Airport in New York, Dec. 14, 2017. Tyler Morse, who is planning the first hotel ...
Untapped Cities

Film Locations: Leonardo DiCaprio at JFK Airport’s TWA Flight Center in “Catch Me If You Can”

Catch Me If You Can, based on the true story of Frank Abegnale, Jr., follows the young con artist from New Rochelle to New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans and all the way to France. After ...
Untapped Cities

Untapped Mailbag: How Can I Tour or Rent the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport?

Michelle is the founder of Untapped New York and the author of The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, Secret Brooklyn, Secret New York, and Broadway.
Reuters

Jetting back to the Sixties at the TWA Hotel

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, ...
Brownstoner

Queenswalk: Come Fly with TWA to JFK, Part 3

The head of Trans World Airlines in the late 1950s, Ralph S. Damon, was a forward thinking visionary corporate leader, willing to take chances. For his company’s new world-class airline terminal at ...