New York City

=== Air ===
{{Main|Aviation in the New York metropolitan area}}
[[File:JFK_Aerial_Nov_14_2018.jpg|thumb|[[John F. Kennedy International Airport|John F. Kennedy Airport]] in [[Queens]]]]
[[Aviation in the New York metropolitan area|New York's airspace]] is the busiest in the United States and one of the world's busiest air transportation corridors. The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area are [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]] (with 55.3&nbsp;million passengers), [[Newark Liberty International Airport]] (43.6&nbsp;million) and [[LaGuardia Airport]] (29.0&nbsp;million); 127.9&nbsp;million travelers used these three airports in 2022.<ref>[https://www.panynj.gov/content/dam/airports/statistics/statistics-general-info/annual-atr/ATR_2022.pdf#page=39 ''2022 Air Traffic Report''], [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]], April 2023. Accessed January 15, 2024.</ref> JFK and Newark Liberty were the [[List of the busiest airports in the United States#10 busiest US airports by international passenger traffic (2012)|busiest and fourth-busiest U.S. gateways]] for international air passengers, respectively, in 2023.<ref>[https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-11/US%20International%20Air%20Passenger%20and%20Freight%20Statistics%20for%20June%202023.pdf ''U.S. InternationalAir Passenger and Freight Statistics June 2023''], [[United States Department of Transportation]], released November 2023. Accessed January 14, 2024. "The top five domestic scheduled passenger gateway airports for the year-ended June 2023 were New York, NY (JFK), Miami, FL (MIA), Los Angeles, CA (LAX), New York, NY (EWR), and Chicago, IL (ORD)."</ref> {{As of|2011}}, JFK was the [[World's busiest airports by international passenger traffic|busiest airport for international passengers]] in North America.<ref>{{cite web |title = 2011 Year-to-date International passenger Traffic (as of December 2011) |url = http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-212-1376-1379_666_2__ |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101206022153/http://www.aci.aero/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-212-1376-1379_666_2__ |archive-date = December 6, 2010 |access-date = October 8, 2014 |publisher = [[Airports Council International]] }}</ref>

Described in 2014 by then-[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]] as the kind of airport a travelers would see in "some third world country", LaGuardia Airport has undergone an $8&nbsp;billion project with federal and state support that has replaced its aging facilities with modern terminals and roadways.<ref>Reed, Ted. [https://airlineweekly.skift.com/2023/03/laguardia-airport-the-queens-miracle-from-loser-to-winner/ "In a Queens Miracle, New York LaGuardia Airport Goes From Loser to Winner"], ''Airline Weekly'', March 21, 2023. Accessed January 15, 2023. "Throughout a troubled 2022, the pandemic exposed many fragilities in a troubled U.S. airline industry, but it also enabled a widely recognized miracle in the $8 billion resurrection of New York LaGuardia Airport. Once widely viewed as a hellhole, LaGuardia was transformed.... Transformation involved rebuilding two terminals, each costing about $4 billion, as well as about five miles of roadway. Terminal B has 35 gates, occupied by American and four other airlines. Work began in 2016 and was completed on July 8, 2022, the exact day specified in a bond offering six years earlier. Terminal C, occupied and financed by Delta Air Lines, will have 37 gates. Work began in 2017 and is largely finished, with completion by the end of the year."</ref><ref>McGeehan, Patrick. [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/nyregion/la-guardia-airport-to-be-rebuilt-by-2021-cuomo-and-biden-say.html "La Guardia Airport to Be Overhauled by 2021, Cuomo and Biden Say"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 27, 2015. Accessed January 15, 2024. "He said he took it personally when, in February 2014, Mr. Biden likened La Guardia to something a traveler might find 'in a third world country.'"</ref><ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/nyregion/biden-compares-la-guardia-airport-to-third-world.html "Biden Compares La Guardia Airport to 'Third World'"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 6, 2014. Accessed January 15, 2024. "Vice President Joseph R. Biden says La Guardia Airport in New York could use some major improvements — and that is putting it mildly. Mr. Biden said that if he blindfolded someone and took him to La Guardia, the person would think he was in 'some third world country.'"</ref><ref>[https://www.anewlga.com/about-the-project/ The Project], A Whole New LGA. Accessed January 15, 2024. "The $8 billion project, two-thirds of which is funded through private financing and existing passenger fees, broke ground in 2016."</ref> Plans have advanced to expand passenger volume at a fourth airport, [[Stewart International Airport]], near [[Newburgh, New York]], by the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web |last = Strunsky |first = Steve |date = May 31, 2012 |title = Stewart International Airport upgrade approved as Port Authority aims to increase passenger traffic |url = http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/stewart_international_airport.html |access-date = July 30, 2012 |website = [[NJ.com]] |publisher = New Jersey On-Line LLC. }}</ref> Other commercial airports in or serving the [[New York metropolitan area]] include [[Long Island MacArthur Airport]], [[Trenton–Mercer Airport]] and [[Westchester County Airport]]. The primary general aviation airport serving the area is [[Teterboro Airport]].