A NEW YORK AIRPORT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 8 July 1927, Page 10

A NEW YORK AIRPORT.

o SKF/KiNG A SUITA BLF, SITE. Xew York City is now perhaps the on; y large city in the United States still without a recognised .airport in close proximity to its centre, states an American paper devoted to aeronautics. Owing to- the congestion of the metropolitan area, a satisfactory solution has been hard to find. The Merchants’ Association of New York City, after years of exhaustive study, now suggests 4(X) acres of marsh land at Secaucus. on the Jersey side, across the Hudson River, but only three miles from the Pennsylvania Station. Most New York air traffic will come from the west and the site is geographically ideal. It is estimated that the airdrome can lie established for 2,500,000 dollars. The marsh must be- drained and built up. Two salt water streams enter it at opposite sides-. The plan is to employ hydraulic fillings, dredging out one section to fill in another. It is said that one acre will fill five others hv this process, at an average cost of 2000 dollars an acire-. The operation would create a, water basin of approximately 100 acres, adequate for .-enplane landings. Tf the political difficulty of having New York City buy land in New Jersey cannot be removed, private ownership and operation may follow. The lack of a -suitable New York airport is perhaps; one; of the greatest hindrance's to the development of commercial operation.