Editing Marine Air Terminal (section)

=== Pan Am use ===
At a hearing before the [[Civil Aeronautics Board]] in April 1939, [[Pan Am|Pan American Airways]] indicated that it planned to use North Beach Airport as the main U.S. terminal for the transatlantic flights of its [[Boeing 314 Clipper]]s. Under this plan, Clippers would fly to Baltimore if there was bad weather in New York City.<ref name="nyt-1939-04-23">{{Cite news |date=April 23, 1939 |title=Four Ocean Hops a Week Planned; Pan American Airways Tells Officials Two Will Be to France, Two to England |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/23/archives/four-ocean-hops-a-week-planned-pan-american-airways-tells-officials.html |access-date=August 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803224124/https://www.nytimes.com/1939/04/23/archives/four-ocean-hops-a-week-planned-pan-american-airways-tells-officials.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="p539591115">{{Cite news |date=April 12, 1939 |title=Pan American to Have Bases Here and N. Y.: Trippe Tells' CAA North Beach Will Be Principal Transatlantic Depot Baltimore Not Expected to Suffer as Result of Airways' Decision |page=26 |work=The Sun |id={{ProQuest|539591115}}}}</ref> Pan Am leased the Marine Air Terminal from the New York City government the following month.<ref name="p1243118796">{{cite news |date=May 21, 1939 |title=Clipper Opens Regular Mail Line to Europe: 17 Aboard Yankee as She Soars for Francc by Way of Azores and Portugal America Gets a Head Start in North Atlantic Air Service |page=1 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1243118796}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 21, 1939 |title=Clipper at Azores as First Airliner With Europe Mail; Crew of the Clipper Ship Flying First Mail to Europe |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/05/21/archives/clipper-at-azores-as-first-airliner-with-europe-mail-crew-of-the.html |access-date=August 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803224125/https://www.nytimes.com/1939/05/21/archives/clipper-at-azores-as-first-airliner-with-europe-mail-crew-of-the.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Pan Am also allowed foreign airlines to use the terminal, including [[Imperial Airways]], [[Air France]], and [[KLM]].<ref name="nyt-1940-03-31" />

==== Opening and early years ====
[[File:LGA MAT 1940.jpg|thumb|A [[Boeing 314 Clipper]] at the Marine Air Terminal c. 1940|alt=Aerial view of a Boeing 314 Clipper at the Marine Air Terminal circa 1940]]The Marine Air Terminal officially opened on March 31, 1940, when a Clipper carrying ten crew members, nine passengers, and over 5,000 pounds (2,300&nbsp;kg) of mail departed from the terminal.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 1, 1940 |title=Throng at Airport Sees Clipper Off, Opening City Base; Crowds, Clipper and Passengers at Opening of New York $7,500,000 Sea Airport |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/04/01/archives/throng-at-airport-sees-clipper-off-opening-city-base-crowds-clipper.html |access-date=August 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803235337/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/04/01/archives/throng-at-airport-sees-clipper-off-opening-city-base-crowds-clipper.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="p151243567">{{cite news |last=Robb |first=Inez |date=April 1, 1940 |title=Cheers Speed First Europe-Bound Plane To Soar From LaGuardia Airport |page=9 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|151243567}}}}</ref> This flight landed in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]], 18 hours and 35 minutes later, setting a record for an eastbound transatlantic Clipper flight.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 3, 1940 |title=First Clipper Out of La Guardia Terminal Sets a Record for the Crossing to Lisbon |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/04/03/archives/first-clipper-out-of-la-guardia-terminal-sets-a-record-for-the.html |access-date=August 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803235336/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/04/03/archives/first-clipper-out-of-la-guardia-terminal-sets-a-record-for-the.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The first flying boat to arrive at the Marine Air Terminal arrived from Bermuda on April 1, 1940.<ref name="p1341347855">{{cite news |date=April 2, 1940 |title=Clipper Lands Censored Mail At North Beach: First In at Marine Base; Line Says British Kept 'Few, If Any,' Letters |page=6 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1341347855}}}}</ref> At the time, the terminal served three transatlantic trips per week.<ref name="p1341347855" /> A brochure distributed on the terminal's opening day proclaimed it as "an enduring terminal linking the air routes of the old world with those of the new".<ref name="p133712791">{{cite news |last=Newman |first=Barry |date=May 15, 1973 |title=That Fabulous Airport Of Flying-Boat Days Is Yecch-Blue Now: Some Talk of Restoring Mural, But the Artist Doesn't Care; Landing the Yankee Clippers Fabulous Airport for Flying Boats Is Yecch-Blue Now; Mural Is Gone |page=1 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|133712791}}}}</ref> Originally, members of the public were allowed to visit the Marine Air Terminal's observation deck,<ref name="nyt-1940-03-31" /> which became a popular place to observe seaplane and airplane landings.<ref name="nyt-2022-07-21">{{Cite news |last1=McGeehan |first1=Patrick |last2=Prior |first2=Thomas |date=July 21, 2022 |title=Wait, La Guardia Is Nice Now? Inside New York's $25 Billion Airport Overhaul |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/nyregion/nyc-airports-renovation.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804080750/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/nyregion/nyc-airports-renovation.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The deck was closed for security reasons during World War II.<ref name="nyt-1945-06-30" />

In July 1940, [[American Export Airlines]] and city officials began discussing the possibility of constructing a second seaplane hangar next to the Marine Air Terminal. American Export wanted to operate a transatlantic passenger route from LaGuardia Airport, but Pan Am did not have any more space in its existing hangar.<ref name="p1249141821">{{cite news |date=July 17, 1940 |title=Export Airlines Seeks Terminal At North Beach: Negotiations Start Today on Space for Atlantic Run; New Hangar May Be Built |page=19 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1249141821}}}}</ref> The [[New York City Planning Commission]] approved the proposed hangar in April 1941, allocating $389,000 to the project.<ref name="p513613581">{{cite news |date=April 4, 1941 |title=New Seaplane Hangar Planned at N. Y. Airport |page=5 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |id={{ProQuest|513613581}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 3, 1941 |title=New Hangar Approved; Planning Commission Favors $389,000 Seaplane Building |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/04/03/archives/new-hangar-approved-planning-commission-favors-389000-seaplane.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014058/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/04/03/archives/new-hangar-approved-planning-commission-favors-389000-seaplane.html |url-status=live}}</ref> LaGuardia attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the second hangar on August 4, 1941,<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 5, 1941 |title=Seaplane Hangar Begun at Airport; Mayor Breaks Ground at City Field – He Warns of Sending Britain Transport Planes |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/08/05/archives/seaplane-hangar-begun-at-airport-mayor-breaks-ground-at-city-field.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014059/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/08/05/archives/seaplane-hangar-begun-at-airport-mayor-breaks-ground-at-city-field.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and work on the hangar began that December.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 4, 1941 |title=New Hangar Is Started; It Will House Export Airlines Craft at La Guardia Field |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/04/archives/new-hangar-is-started-it-will-house-export-airlines-craft-at-la.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014100/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/04/archives/new-hangar-is-started-it-will-house-export-airlines-craft-at-la.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[James Brooks (painter)|James Brooks]] completed his ''Flight'' mural inside the main terminal building in September 1942.<ref name="nyt-1942-09-20" /><ref name="p1796833884">{{cite magazine |date=September 21, 1942 |title=Flight Around the Rotunda |magazine=Newsweek |volume=10 |issue=12 |pages=76 |id={{ProQuest|1796833884}}}}</ref> The following year, in April 1943, an expansion to the original Pan Am hangar was completed. By then, the Marine Air Terminal had more than one transatlantic trip per day.<ref name="nyt-1943-04-01">{{Cite news |date=April 1, 1943 |title=New Marine Airport for Post-War Needs; Commissioner McKenzie Speaks at Anniversary of Clipper |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/04/01/archives/new-marine-airport-for-postwar-needs-commissioner-mckenzie-speaks.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014101/https://www.nytimes.com/1943/04/01/archives/new-marine-airport-for-postwar-needs-commissioner-mckenzie-speaks.html |url-status=live}}</ref> American Export's new hangar opened in July 1943,<ref name="nyt-1943-07-29">{{Cite news |date=July 29, 1943 |title=New Terminal Ready for Atlantic Planes; American Export Lines Base at City Airport Opens Tomorrow |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/07/29/archives/new-terminal-ready-for-atlantic-planes-american-export-lines-base.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014059/https://www.nytimes.com/1943/07/29/archives/new-terminal-ready-for-atlantic-planes-american-export-lines-base.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and the terminal's observation deck reopened in June 1945.<ref name="nyt-1945-06-30">{{Cite news |date=June 30, 1945 |title=Observation Deck Opens At City Airport Today |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/30/archives/observation-deck-opens-at-city-airport-today.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014100/https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/30/archives/observation-deck-opens-at-city-airport-today.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

A ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' article in 1942 noted that Clipper flights came from as far as "Capetown, Lisbon, New Zealand, the Orient, Alaska and other remote places".<ref name="p1265926480">{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=William H. |date=May 3, 1942 |title=Sightseers Flock to LaGuardia Field Again: Cut in Touring Likely to Bring Larger Crowds Transportation Lo Airport Being Steadily Bettered; Warplanes Often Seen |page=A6 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1265926480}}}}</ref> During the Second World War, many soldiers would fly to Europe and Africa from the terminal, and political figures such as U.S. first lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and British prime minister [[Winston Churchill]] also flew from the terminal.<ref name="p546113347">{{cite news |last=Lacy |first=John |date=July 2, 1980 |title=Flying Hush Hush from La Guardia |page=15 |work=The Hartford Courant |id={{ProQuest|546113347}}}}</ref> Even so, the Marine Air Terminal lasted as a seaplane terminal for less than a decade.<ref name="NYCL p. 3">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1980|ps=.|p=3}}</ref><ref name="NPS p. 5">{{harvnb|National Park Service|1982|ps=.|p=5}}</ref> When the terminal opened, seaplanes were generally more technologically advanced than traditional land planes; the earliest four-engine aircraft, capable of flying long distances, had been seaplanes. However, they were also more prone to disruption, particularly during the winter months and in poor tidal conditions, when they could not operate. Land planes were not affected by these issues, and land-plane technology was also improving quickly.<ref name="nyt-1940-11-10">{{Cite news |date=November 10, 1940 |title=Land Planes Span Ocean; Airline Outgrows Webbed Foot as New Airports Shift Bases Inland |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/10/archives/land-planes-span-ocean-airline-outgrows-webbed-foot-as-new-airports.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014058/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/10/archives/land-planes-span-ocean-airline-outgrows-webbed-foot-as-new-airports.html |url-status=live}}</ref> With the outbreak of [[World War II]], new four-engine land planes were being developed, making these seaplanes obsolete.<ref name="NYCL p. 3" /><ref name="NPS p. 5" /> Pan Am stopped operating the 314s into the terminal in June 1945 but continued to operate other service into the terminal.<ref name="n107064048">{{Cite news |last=Erickson |first=Charles |date=September 1, 2000 |title=A Grand New Role for LaGuardia's Marine Air Terminal |pages=43 |work=Newsday |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107064048/a-grand-new-role-for-laguardias-marine/ |access-date=August 6, 2022 |archive-date=August 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806182935/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107064048/a-grand-new-role-for-laguardias-marine/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Use as international terminal ====
By the mid-1940s, the small capacity of LaGuardia Airport could not handle the increasing demand for international flights.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 13, 1945 |title=Airline Expansion to Tax Field Here; Capacity of La Guardia Unit Seen Exceeded in Winter by Projected Flights |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/13/archives/airline-expansion-to-tax-field-here-capacity-of-la-guardia-unit.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804014059/https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/13/archives/airline-expansion-to-tax-field-here-capacity-of-la-guardia-unit.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Despite the obsolescence of seaplanes, LaGuardia Airport was the only major airport in the U.S. which offered regular flights to Europe.<ref name="p133712791" /> To address increasing congestion at the Marine Air Terminal, the city government and representatives of several airlines agreed in June 1946 to spend $50,000 on upgrading the customs facilities at the terminal.<ref name="p1284555501">{{cite news |date=June 19, 1946 |title=City Accepts Air-Line Plan To Speed Travel: $50,000 Addition Planned to Marine Terminal for More Customs Officials |page=17A |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1284555501}}}}</ref> Although the terminal had begun to serve land planes, it could only fit one plane at a time, and passengers frequently had to wait three to four hours before passing through customs.<ref name="p1284558453">{{cite news |date=June 12, 1946 |title=City Seeks to Cut 3-Hour Delay Of Air Travelers From Abroad |page=24 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1284558453}}}}</ref> The ''[[Daily Boston Globe]]'' wrote that the rotunda often saw as much traffic as a [[New York City Subway|subway]] station during rush hours, with up to ten overseas flights trying to land nearly simultaneously at the busiest times.<ref name="p840582727">{{cite news |date=January 2, 1950 |title=Overseas Airlines Desert LaGuardia for Idlewild |page=23 |work=Daily Boston Globe |id={{proQuest|840582727}}}}</ref> The Marine Air Terminal served 14 airlines; the overcrowded conditions had prompted one airline owner to purchase an old ferryboat and moor it next to the Marine Air Terminal.<ref name="p1287122323">{{cite news |date=July 30, 1946 |title=Oldtime Flyer Buys Ferry as Air-Line Office: Peru-Line Owner Seeks to Moor It at La Guardia Field as Headquarters |page=13A |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1287122323}}}}</ref><ref name="nyt-">{{Cite news |date=July 30, 1946 |title=Airline Buys Ferryboat To Serve as Terminal |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/07/30/archives/airline-buys-ferryboat-to-serve-as-terminal.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203705/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/07/30/archives/airline-buys-ferryboat-to-serve-as-terminal.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The improvements included the addition of a {{convert|1000|ft|m|-long|adj=mid}} covered walkway, three gates for arriving passengers, and two gates for departing passengers.<ref name="nyt-1946-11-08">{{Cite news |date=November 8, 1946 |title=Air Passengers Aided; New Airport Facilities Speed Clearance on Foreign Trips |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/11/08/archives/air-passengers-aided-new-airport-facilities-speed-clearance-on.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203706/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/11/08/archives/air-passengers-aided-new-airport-facilities-speed-clearance-on.html |url-status=live}}</ref> After the terminal reopened on November 7, 1946, it was renamed the International Air Terminal, serving all of LaGuardia's transatlantic flights.<ref name="nyt-1946-11-08" /><ref name="p1287144668">{{cite news |date=November 7, 1946 |title=New Facilities At La Guardia To Open Today: Marine Terminal Customs Clearance Stepped Up for Ocean Passengers |page=25B |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1287144668}}}}</ref> Meanwhile, [[Idlewild Airport|Idlewild (now JFK) Airport]] was being built in southern Queens to accommodate international and transcontinental flights.<ref name="nyt-2022-07-21" /> The [[Port of New York Authority]] took over operation of LaGuardia and Idlewild airports in June 1947.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 2, 1947 |title=New Airport Offer to Go to Newark; Port Authority, Taking Over Fields, Will Bid for Newark Airport Again |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/06/02/archives/new-airport-offer-to-go-to-newark-port-authority-taking-over-fields.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203706/https://www.nytimes.com/1947/06/02/archives/new-airport-offer-to-go-to-newark-port-authority-taking-over-fields.html |url-status=live}}</ref> That September, Port Authority officials suggested extending one of LaGuardia's runways by infilling an unused plot of land next to the International Air Terminal.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 12, 1947 |title=Navy Seen Keeping Bennett Airfield; Port Authority Has Little Hope for Its Use to Relieve La Guardia, Cullman Says |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/09/12/archives/navy-seen-keeping-bennett-airfield-port-authority-has-little-hope.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203719/https://www.nytimes.com/1947/09/12/archives/navy-seen-keeping-bennett-airfield-port-authority-has-little-hope.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The terminal served 314,000 passengers a year in 1948, many more than it had been built to accommodate.<ref name="p133712791" />

Air traffic at the terminal started to decline after Idlewild opened in 1948.<ref name="p1327305668">{{cite news |date=June 28, 1957 |title=Air Line Using Marine Terminal |page=2 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1327305668}}}}</ref> The terminal was renamed the Overseas Terminal in August 1949 because passengers frequently confused it with Idlewild, which was formally known as New York International Airport.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 1, 1949 |title=News of the Aviation World; United States International Airlines Show Drop in Percentage of Passengers |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/08/01/archives/news-of-the-aviation-world-united-states-international-airlines.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203718/https://www.nytimes.com/1949/08/01/archives/news-of-the-aviation-world-united-states-international-airlines.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In the years after Idlewild opened, most transatlantic flights at the Overseas Terminal were moved over to Idlewild. The terminal had become empty most of the time, and Pan Am, [[American Overseas Airlines]], and [[Trans World Airlines]] were the only airlines still operating international flights from the terminal.<ref name="p840582727" /> Pan Am relocated most of its operations from the terminal in early 1951,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=April 17, 1951 |title=Pan American Set for Idlewild Move; Will Complete Transfer Job Tomorrow—Only Bermuda Service at La Guardia |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/04/17/archives/pan-american-set-for-idlewild-move-will-complete-transfer-job.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203718/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/04/17/archives/pan-american-set-for-idlewild-move-will-complete-transfer-job.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and the last transatlantic flight from the Overseas Terminal departed on April 28, 1951.<ref name="p1320094701">{{cite news |date=April 29, 1951 |title=La Guardia Field Through As a Trans-Atlantic Base |page=2 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1320094701}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 29, 1951 |title=La Guardia Unit Loses Flights |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/04/29/archives/la-guardia-unit-loses-flights.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203705/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/04/29/archives/la-guardia-unit-loses-flights.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Afterward, only flights to Bermuda continued to operate out of Marine Air Terminal.<ref name=":0" /> These flights lasted for less than a year, and service from the Overseas Terminal ceased in February 1952.<ref name="nyt-1995-10-01" /> Around that time, the ''Flight'' mural in the terminal was painted over<ref name="nyt-1995-10-01" /><ref name="Robins p. 228" /> for reasons unknown even to James Brooks, the mural's own artist.<ref name="n106968466">{{Cite news |date=February 2, 1979 |title=Airport Mural to Be Restored |pages=6 |work=Newsday |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106968466/airport-mural-to-be-restored/ |access-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805013323/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106968466/airport-mural-to-be-restored/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Brooks did not learn that the mural had been painted over until after the fact.<ref name="p133712791" /><ref name="n106970526">{{Cite news |last=Gross |first=Kenneth |date=September 19, 1980 |title=Mural Restored, But the Hurt Remains |pages=17 |work=Newsday |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106970526/mural-restored-but-the-hurt/ |access-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805013324/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106970526/mural-restored-but-the-hurt/ |url-status=live}}</ref>