Dear v70cat,
I usually won't engage in arguments online, but since I was just called out for a comment I made back in March, I felt I needed to reply. Thanks for providing the link to the history of LaGuardia Airport, as the wikipedia article will help me illustrate the point I was trying to make 9 months ago.
You are quite correct, LaGaurdia Airport was built well before I was born in 1966. But as the section of the wikipedia article subtitled "Later Development" points out, LGA is too small, too busy, and its runways are too short by modern standards for a commercial airport located in the heart of a metropolitan area. If you continue reading the next section, entitled "Accidents and Incidents" you will note that in my lifetime, there have been FOUR major accidents, ALL of which occurred on TAKEOFFS from the airport, the most recent of which was US Airways Flight 1549 back in January.
My posting back in March was not a complaint so much about airplane noise, but about the wisdom of using runway 4/22 for takeoffs over the densely-populated neighborhoods of Woodside, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, as opposed to the other direction, if possible. And how dare you have the nerve to criticize my comment AND then ask for construction to be delayed until 9AM on weekends! (Which emoticon is most appropriate for "hypocrisy"?) :coolsmiley: