The new, 850,000-square-foot, four-story, state-of-the-art Terminal B Arrivals and Departures Hall at New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) opens to the public on Saturday, June 13.
And it is a winner.
A key part of the LGA’s ongoing $8 billion rebuild, the new facility has local concessions, modern restrooms, and a New York-inspired shopping district.
Passengers flying on American Airlines, Air Canada, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines will be using the new terminal at LGA, which has impressive new permanent public art installations.
What’s in the New Terminal B at LGA
The new Terminal B departures level has four check-in islands with 75 individual check-in kiosks and a central oversize bag check-in station.
There are 17 large restrooms. And 16 security lanes with signs showing passenger wait times. There’s also new state-of-the-art technology for screening passengers and baggage.
At the arrivals level, there are nine large new baggage carousels.
The 17 retail and food/beverage concessions include many local favorites.
Among them: Eli’s Essentials by New York food legend Eli Zabar, Chef Marc Forgione’s new Mulberry Street restaurant, and Junior’s Cheesecake.
Contactless ordering available from the in-airport food delivery app At Your Gate.
LGA’s new Terminal B also has great public art
Public Art Fund and LaGuardia Gateway Partners, the developer and operator of Terminal B, chose great public art pieces for the new LGA Terminal B.
The key pieces are by Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig, Laura Owens, and Sarah Sze.
Take a look:
Those aren’t ‘lost’ balloons up on the ceiling but Jeppe Hein’s work “All Your Wishes.”
The piece includes dozens of colorful and reflective balloon-shaped steel sculptures distributed, as if floating, throughout the terminal.
The bright red bench sculptures that are both whimsical and useful are also Hein’s work.
Sabine Hornig’s “La Guardia Vistas” is a pair of interlocking cityscapes made up of more than 1100 photographs of New York City.
The work’s title refers to Fiorello La Guardia, founder of the airport and New York City Mayor from 1934 to 1945. And the piece includes 20 quotes from and about La Guardia.
Laura Owens’ pop-art-ish tiled mosaic mural celebrates New York City and covers the airport’s largest interior wall.
And “Shorter than the Day,” by Sarah Sze, is a monumental sculpture made of hundreds of images that form a sphere that appears to float in mid-air.
Things are definitely looking up for LaGuardia Airport and for anyone traveling to or from New York.
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Some of that art is really nice.