Browsing: Editor’s Notebook
Each month, Metropolitan Airport News Editor-in-Chief, Julia Lauria-Blum, discusses issues affecting the New York area airport community.
Over the course of nearly 25 years, much of my work has been about aviation history and how both aviation and, unfortunately, war brought about previously unheard-of opportunities for American women during the Second World…
Last month, I had an appointment at 4 World Trade Center on Greenwich Street in the southeastern corner of the World Trade Center campus. A few days prior to my trip into the city, I…
The heart of a community is its people, and the 2nd annual Airport Community Golf Classic (ACGC), which took place on July 18th at the Lawrence Yacht and Country Club, is no exception to the…
On June 10th, I had the privilege of representing the legendary pilot Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Cochran who was honored with her induction into the 12th Annual Luncheon of the Cradle of Aviation Museum’s Long Island Air &…
This past April, Governor Hochul announced a historic milestone in the continuing transformation of JFK International Airport, where a record $2.3 billion in contracts have been awarded to Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE). This…
On the gray, overcast morning of May 20, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh lifted off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island in his Ryan M-2 monoplane, ‘The Spirit of St. Louis’, powered by a 220-horsepower, air-cooled…
On April 8, as the shade of the Moon overlapped the Sun and swept across the Mexican and Texas border on a path that spanned 15 states, tens of millions of people across North America…
On an extraordinary day in March of 2010, I stood before the steps of the U.S. Capitol admiring the majestic beauty of its immediately familiar white dome rising over 285 feet above the Capitol building’s…
I was recently invited to attend and moderate a panel lecture about pioneering African American aviators, which took place at the extraordinary Explorer’s Club on E. 70th Street in New York. And what a fascinating…
Last October, when I booked a red-eye flight home for my daughter Maggie, departing out of LAX and bound for JFK on December 23rd, I did so with a bit of trepidation. Any concern that…