New Terminal for Idlewild

New York City's International Airport at Idlewild, on the southeastern edge of Queens, has sprouted like a teen-ager since its opening a decade ago. But the barracks-like terminal buildings originally built as temporary edifices remained to cramp it like an outgrown and tattered suit. Last week Idlewild got a sparkling array of new buildings eminently befitting its position as the aerial gateway to the U.S. While 2,000 guests looked on, New York's Governor Harriman, New Jersey's Governor Meyner and Mayor Wagner of New York City formally dedicated a $30 million, half-mile-long group of buildings--the first section of the new Terminal City that will cost $150 million and make Idlewild the world's most modern air terminal.

A study in the artful fusion of sparkling glass, glazed brick and gleaming metal, the long, low, U-shaped group faces a landscaped plaza decorated with colored fountains and lit by a splendid illuminating system. Into the passenger buildings are packed modern supermarket-like facilities to speed travelers on their way: escalators to carry passengers from floor to floor, 32 special customs check-out counters to which passengers wheel their luggage in marketlike pushcarts, enclosed arcades that enable passengers of each overseas flight to go through the port without getting mixed up with domestic passengers. Around the new terminal buildings will spring up a whole network of individual U.S. airline terminals for domestic passengers that will eventually cover 655 acres.

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