Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

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

As Commissioner of New York City Parks under Mayor LaGuardia, he extended the parkways to the heart of the city, creating and linking its parks to the greater metropolitan systems.

Her parents encouraged her to perform, and her father, who had been named New York City's " official magician " by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia during the Great Depression, taught her to perform specialized magic acts by age 13.

The Board of Education honored Mayor LaGuardia by naming the new building after him.

The October 2, 1937, issue of the Socialist Appeal included a convention call from the so-called " Left Wing " to " All Locals and Branches of the Socialist Party ," accusing the NEC of the party of having " betrayed the principles of socialism " by withdrawing the party's candidate for Mayor of New York in favor of LaGuardia and for having ordered " the bureaucratic expulsion of all the revolutionary members of the party who oppose and obstruct this sell-out policy.

In a Sunday radio address on January 24, Mayor LaGuardia suggested that bakeries that had their own bread-slicing machines should be allowed to continue to use them, and on January 26, 1943, a letter appeared in the New York Times from a distraught housewife:

In a prescient speech in 1937, Mayor LaGuardia of New York warned of the upcoming dangers posed by the Nazi Government regime.

In 1984 the High School of Music & Art was merged with the School of Performing Arts ( founded in 1948 by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia ) to become LaGuardia High.

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

Nine months later, on 1 March 1943, an estimated 22, 000 people crowded into the same hall and a further 15, 000 stood outside at a WJC rally addressed by Wise, Chaim Weizmann, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and others.

Almost 300, 000 people attended the ceremony for the field named after Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

In New York, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia clamped down on burlesque, effectively putting it out of business by the early 1940s.

Now, under an agency devoted singularly to its function and with the leadership of new director Morris S. Novik, appointed by Mayor LaGuardia, WNYC became a model public broadcaster.

In October 1970, the Board of Higher Educatio, breaking with CUNY ’ s geographic naming convention, named the new college after Mayor LaGuardia, noting his

When the train arrived at Times Square, BMT president William S. Menden handed over his company's properties to Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who then gave them to New York City Board of Transportation chairman John H. Delaney.

Mayor Fiorello Henry La Guardia laid the cornerstone of the Academy building in 1940, shortly after the opening of LaGuardia Airport.

Mayor LaGuardia wanted an aviation school to teach and train young people in the Aviation technologies at his new airport.

In 1953, he won the organization's LaGuardia Award, named for former New York City Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia.

At the behest of Mayor LaGuardia, Moses sought " to induce insurance companies and savings banks to enter the field of large-scale slum clearance.

* Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at Madison and Jefferson Streets and at LaGuardia Place north of Bleecker Street

* 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, killing 11 people and injuring 74.

LaGuardia, a Republican who appealed across party lines, was very popular in New York during the 1930s.

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

LaGuardia became Deputy Attorney General of New York in January, 1915.

In 1919, LaGuardia was chosen to run as the Republican candidate for the office of President of the New York City Board of Aldermen.

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 then went after the gangsters with a vengeance, stating in a radio address to the people of New York in his high-pitched, squeaky voice, " Let's drive the bums out of town.

1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens ( later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field ), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, thus completing the public takeover of the subway system.

Responding to popular disdain for the sometimes corrupt City Council, LaGuardia successfully proposed a reformed 1938 City Charter that created a powerful new New York City Board of Estimate, similar to a corporate board of directors.

" In 1937, speaking before the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress, LaGuardia called for the creation of a special pavilion at the upcoming New York World's Fair, " a chamber of horrors " for " that brown-shirted fanatic ".

As he had made no provision for her, she lived in very reduced circumstances, in a LaGuardia public housing project in Queens, New York, until her death in 1962.

* LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of New York's three major currently operating airports, bears his name ; the airport was voted the " greatest airport in the world " by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.

During the supernatural chaos towards the end of the film, LaGuardia is said to have come back to talk to the current mayor of New York in his bedroom for an hour and a half, despite LaGuardia's being " dead for forty years ".

Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York ( 1989 ) the most detailed standard scholarly biography

* 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York.

* 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.

On Thursday night, the New York area airports ( JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark ) were closed again and reopened the next morning.

He was succeeded by Fiorello La Guardia ( 1 April to 31 December 1946 ), former mayor of New York-who later learned that that his sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, and other relatives had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.

Aniston attended the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and graduated from Manhattan's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.