However, it has also been argued that powerful Tammany Hall boss Jimmy Hines was able to successfully get enough votes forged to get LaGuardia unseated in this election as well.

LaGuardia was also a very active Freemason.

* In addition to LaGuardia High School, a number of other institutions are also named for him, including LaGuardia Community College.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal and the PATH rail system are also run by the Port Authority, as well as LaGuardia Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, Teterboro Airport and Stewart International Airport.

Delta Air Lines ' Delta Shuttle also offers near-hourly air shuttle service to LaGuardia.

Mainline flights to Austin, Columbus, New York ( LaGuardia ) and St. Louis were also dropped.

In the 1970's, Southern flew nonstop Douglas DC-9 jet service to Atlanta and New Orleans, and also operated direct, no change of plane DC-9 jet service to Memphis, St. Louis, Washington D. C. ( Dulles Airport ), New York City ( LaGuardia Airport ), Miami, Minneapolis / St.

The site was chosen when Mayor LaGuardia decided that Queens, like Brooklyn, also deserved to have a college.

At one point, Delta also operated direct, no change of plane Boeing 727-200 jet service from Beaumont / Port Arthur to New York LaGuardia Airport.

Dinkins also signed a last minute 99-year lease with the USTA National Tennis Center, including strict limitations on flights in and out of neighboring LaGuardia Airport during the US Open.

He fostered a close relationship with Douglas Aircraft that led American to become a key adopter of the Douglas DC-3 and DC-6: he was also one of the early proponents of what is now LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

131, a middle school in The Bronx, and also attended the famed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing, but moved back to Florida before he could graduate.

Carl Lumbly, Martin Kove, and Sidney Clute also co-star respectively as fellow detectives Marcus Petrie, Victor Isbecki, and Paul LaGuardia.

Competing for New Haven's air travelers was Groton / New London based Pilgrim Airlines, also operating flights to New York / JFK and LaGuardia, as well as Boston, using Twin Otters and F-27 aircraft.

LaGuardia Airport and its Runway # Orientation and dimensions | 4 / 22 runway Land reclamation | stretch can also be seen, just 250 feet ( 75 m ) from the island.

The airline also was a leader in the adoption of advanced technologies ; it introduced some of the first passenger self-service check-in kiosks in coordination with Kinetics at its LaGuardia base and partnered with LapStop, a startup firm which rented laptop computers to passengers.

Investigators also found that the deicing procedures at LaGuardia were substandard.

Investigators also focused on deicing practices at LaGuardia.

They also ordered a study on the “ feasibility of building a frangible ILS antenna array for LaGuardia Airport ” Further, they ordered a review of Fokker F28-4000 passenger safety briefing cards " to ensure that they clearly and accurately depict the operation of the two types of forward cabin doors in both their normal and emergency modes and that they describe clearly and accurately how to remove the overwing emergency exit and cover.

This Delta timetable also lists onestop, no change of plane direct jet service from Shreveport to New York LaGuardia Airport, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Reagan National Airport in Washington, D. C., Phoenix, Denver, Chicago and St. Louis.

The parkway proceeds east past St. Michaels Cemetery, entering exit 5, which serves 82nd Street and Astoria Boulevard in East Elmhurst, also connecting to the Marine Air Terminal and Terminal A of Fiorello LaGuardia Airport.

The US Airways Shuttle offers near-hourly air shuttle service to LaGuardia Airport in New York City and Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.

LaGuardia offers 21 different sports on the Varsity level.

LaGuardia's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck ( 1881-1962 ), and brother-in-law, Herman Gluck ( a Hungarian Jew whom she met while teaching English in Europe ), were living in Hungary and were arrested by the Gestapo on 7 June 1944, when the Nazis took control of Budapest.

Roosevelt was an admirer of LaGuardia ; after meeting Winston Churchill for the first time he described him as " an English Mayor LaGuardia.

" The Name's La Guardia " has LaGuardia campaigning in English, Italian and Yiddish.

LaGuardia was born in Greenwich Village in New York City to two Italian immigrant parents.

Fiorello LaGuardia between two Italian officers in front of a Caproni Ca. 44 | Ca. 44, c. 1918

LaGuardia, running as a Republican, won a seat in Congress from the Italian stronghold of East Harlem in 1922 and served in the House until March 3, 1933.

LaGuardia governed in an uneasy alliance with New York's Jews and liberal WASPs, together with Italian and German ethnics.

LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.

LaGuardia loathed the gangsters who brought a negative stereotype and shame to the Italian community.

Before this logo, LaGuardia used a flower with five petals, symbolizing the five boroughs of New York City ; and the first name of its namesake, Fiorello, which in Italian translates to " Little Flower.

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

In 1941, during the run-up to American involvement in World War II, President Roosevelt appointed LaGuardia first director of the new Office of Civilian Defense ( OCD ).

* December 29 – A bomb equivalent in power to 25 sticks of dynamite detonates in a Trans World Airlines locker at LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75 ; it is the deadliest bomb explosion in New York City since the Wall Street bombing of 1920.

* September 10 – Five members of the Croatian National Resistance hijack Trans World Airways Flight 355, a Boeing 727 with 36 other passengers on board flying from LaGuardia Airport in New York City to O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, and divert it to land at Mirabel International Airport in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

LaGuardia during his time in 70th United States Congress | Congress, c. 1929.

LaGuardia was the director general for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ( UNRRA ) in 1946.

New York LaGuardia had the most airline operations and passengers until the early 1950s, when Chicago became the busiest airport in the United States by any criterion.

United first began serving Huntsville in the early 1960's when this air carrier acquired Capital Airlines which had been operating four engine Vickers Viscount turboprop airliners nonstop to Memphis, Knoxville and Washington, D. C. with direct, no change of plane service to New York ( via both LaGuardia and Newark airports ) and Philadelphia.

* LaGuardia Airport, IATA code for an airport in New York City, United States

* December 16, 1960 – Mid-air collision between TWA Flight 266 ( inbound to Idlewild Airport, now JFK ) and United Airlines Flight 826 ( inbound to LaGuardia Airport ) over Miller Field, Staten Island.

* May 29 – The Douglas DC-4 Mainliner Lake Tahoe, operating as United Airlines Flight 521, fails to become airborne while attempting to take off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, runs off the end of the runway, and slams into an embankment, killing 42 of the 48 people on board.

Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology ( Formerly known as the College of Aeronautics, previously the Academy of Aeronautics and originally founded as the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics ) is private specialized Aviation and Engineering college located adjacent to LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York, United States.

The Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York City remains the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States — the " Golden age of the flying boat.