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Flushing: New York's forgotten airport – and most contested development site (from http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=647d7c906af8478eb8bedf1d80d22a70&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fcities%2f2015%2foct%2f15%2fflushing-new-york-forgotten-airport-contested-development-site&c=7161882665945173648&mkt=en-us)
Opened in 1927 on city-owned land leased to private operators, Flushing Airport was briefly New York City’s busiest airfield, until the much bigger La Guardia, which opened in 1939, superseded it.