JFK is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, under a lease with the City of New York since June 1, 1947. In 2004, the Port Authority and the City of New York concluded an agreement that ensures the Agency's continued operation of JFK and LaGuardia airports through 2050.

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey conceives, builds, operates and maintains infrastructure critical to the New York/New Jersey region’s trade and transportation network. These facilities include America’s busiest airport system, marine terminals and ports, the PATH rail transit system, six tunnels and bridges between New York and New Jersey, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, and the World Trade Center.

For more than eight decades, the Port Authority has worked to improve the quality of life for the more than 17 million people who live and work in New York and New Jersey - a region that supports 8.6 million jobs with an estimated gross regional product of more than $929 billion.

A Bit of History
JFK has been at the forefront of aviation since its first commercial flight in 1948. In April 1942, New York City began placing hydraulic fill over the marshy tidelands of Idlewild Golf Course. Initial plans were for a modest 1,000-acre airport, but by the time construction was complete Idlewild Airport had grown to five times that size. Commercial flights began in July 1948. On December 24, 1963, the airport was rededicated John F. Kennedy International Airport in memory of the nation’s 35th president. Today, JFK is the nation’s leading international gateway, with more than 80 airlines operating from its gates

LaGuardia has been operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, under a lease with the City of New York, since June 1, 1947. In 2004, the Port Authority and the City of New York concluded an agreement that ensures the agency's continued operation of LaGuardia and JFK International through 2050.

LaGuardia contributes nearly $11 billion in economic activity to the New York-New Jersey metropolitan region, generating about 100,000 jobs and $4 billion in annual wages and salaries. Nearly 8,000 people are employed at the airport.

A Bit of History
In the mid-thirties, New York's mayor at that time, Fiorello LaGuardia, led a strong campaign to develop a more central airport in New York. Eventually, it was decided that the small, centrally located North Beach Airport would be overhauled and redeveloped. Covering just over 500 acres / 200 hectares, the new New York Municipal Airport was opened in 1939, soon to be named as the New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA).

The airport site was first occupied by the Gala Amusement Park, a popular destination owned by the Steinway family. In 1929, the park was transformed into a 105-acre private flying field and first named Glenn H. Curtiss Airport after aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss, and then re-named North Beach Airport.

In 1937, New York City took over the airport and enlarged the grounds with the purchase of adjoining land and by filling in 357 acres of waterfront along the east side. In 1939, it re-opened with a new name, New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field. The airport was leased to the Port Authority in 1947.

Today, LaGuardia Airport is one of the busiest in the nation, handling more than 23 million passengers in 2008.

That means education at CUNY - LaGuardia Community College must maintain the highest quality. LaGuardia Community College is the best place to think globally and act locally. Whether it is in creating a piece of software or writing a play, understanding how to do calculus or understanding how to do physical therapy, students at LaGuardia Community College bring a world’s perspective to their studies.

LaGuardia Community College is the doorway through which students pass to many more achievements. Whether students use their research experience in National Science Foundation labs to become scientists, their co-op internship in accounting to secure a great job while they complete their CPA, their musical experience to compose great jazz, or their work with a local high tech industry to become an entrepreneur, LaGuardia graduates are well prepared to face the challenges of our complex world.

The best part of LaGuardia Community College is you – our next student! As we build a great institution, we welcome great students who will challenge the faculty and staff. We use our outstanding alumni to inspire the next generation of students. We welcome immigrant students to use the College as a gateway to their family and friends so that they, too, can succeed in life. We welcome the returning adult student who never thought college was for them, as well as the student just graduating from high school. Together, the rich mix of people, ideas and projects makes LaGuardia Community College outstanding. Press blue button to explore LaGuardia Community College.

Queens College prepares students to become leaders of our global society by offering a rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences under the guidance of a faculty dedicated to both teaching and research. Students graduate with the ability to think critically, address complex problems, explore various cultures, and use modern technologies and information resources. With a faculty and student population that reflects the diversity of New York City, Queens College provides an unusually rich education.

The college is located on a beautiful 77-acre, tree-lined campus surrounding grassy open spaces and a traditional Quad. The completely renovated Powdermaker Hall, the major classroom building, reopened in fall 2003 with state-of-the-art technology throughout. The Benjamin Rosenthal Library, with its soaring, light-filled atrium and distinctive clock tower, features innovations in information retrieval. The college is also expanding its wireless capability, opening new cafés and dining areas, installing plasma boards, updating the Student Union and several other buildings, and embarking on a variety of campus-beautification projects.

Because Queens is a commuter college, the administration is dedicated to making students feel that the college is their home-away-from-home, with over 100 clubs and a full athletics program. In fact, Queens is the only CUNY college that participates in Division II sports. A Child Development Center, staffed by professionals, offers inexpensive child care services to students with children. Ongoing cultural events include readings by renowned writers, concerts, and theatre and dance performances. The college is also home to the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, which houses more than 3,500 works of art.

The college offers over 115 undergraduate and graduate majors. Academic programs are organized into four divisions, which offer both day and evening courses: Arts and Humanities; Education; Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; and the Social Sciences. The college recently introduced new degree programs in Graphic Design and Neuropsychology as well as a Bachelor of Business Administration degree that offers majors in Finance, International Business, and Actuarial Studies. New additions to the graduate curriculum include a degree program in environmental geotechnology and two certificate programs: one in earth sciences for high school teachers and another in archives record management and conservation.

CUNY Honors College
Queens College participates in the CUNY Honors College. This challenging program for academically gifted students provides full tuition, an academic expense account, mentors, internships, a free laptop, special seminars, and study abroad programs. Queens College also offers its own Honors programs in the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences to qualified students.

The college is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most respected undergraduate honors organization in the United States. Fewer than 10 percent of the nation’s liberal arts colleges meet the stringent academic requirements necessary to host a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

Press blue button to explore Queens College.

Operating within the framework of The City University of New York - CUNY, Queensborough Community College is committed to fostering a collaborative, learning-centered community. The College is dedicated to academic excellence and to the development of the whole individual in an environment that promotes intellectual inquiry, global awareness, and lifelong active learning. As part of The City University of New York, we continue a tradition of academic excellence and celebrate a proven track record of success: to date, more than 46,000 students have graduated from Queensborough. More than 12,000 students are currently enrolled in one of our associate degree or certificate programs, and another 10,000 students participate in the programs offered by our Department of Continuing Education.

Queensborough is committed equally to open-admission access for all learners and to academic excellence within an environment of diversity. The College offers post-secondary associate degree and certificate programs that prepare students for careers and for transfer to four-year institutions of higher learning.

The College features a highly qualified faculty with excellent scholarly credentials, well-planned curricula and developmental course work, strong and closely integrated academic and student support services, and the use of innovative pedagogy, including educational technology.

In response to evolving community needs, Queensborough also offers non-credit courses and certificate programs and other activities. These provide community residents with accessible and affordable educational, recreational and job training opportunities, and help individuals and businesses and other institutions respond to changes in technology and the economy. The College takes a leadership role in providing access to arts and culture to enrich the quality of life for the community at large.

Enjoy outstanding entertainment here, near where you live. Our Queensborough Performing Arts Center - Q-PAC, now celebrating its 40th Anniversary, is presenting an impressive line-up for the 2005-2006 season.

Enjoy our newly renovated Art Gallery and the well-respected Holocaust Resource Center and Archives - HRCA. These unique resources, both with no admission fee, give our students, faculty and community residents a range of cultural and educational experience.

Press blue button learn more about Queensborough Community College.

Academic Philosophy
Opened in 1983, CUNY School of Law is the only law school that, from inception, has defined its mission as training law students for public interest and public service. Designed to prepare our students to practice our motto, "Law in the Service of Human Needs," our unique and integrated curriculum has made us a national leader in progressive legal education with the highest placement rate of graduates in public interest and public service careers.

The basic premise of the Law School's program is that theory cannot be separated from practice, abstract knowledge of doctrine from practical skill, and understanding the professional role from professional experience. Our curriculum integrates practical experience, professional responsibility, and lawyering skills with doctrinal study at every level. Forming the core of our lawyering curriculum are the skills recognized by the profession in its 1992 report from the ABA Taskforce on Law Schools and the Profession (commonly known as the MacCrate Report) as essential to successful law practice-problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, factual investigation, communication (legal writing, oral argument), counseling, negotiation, litigation and alternative dispute-resolution procedures, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas.

We teach lawyering and practice skills through all three years of law school: first-year students acquire clinical experience through simulation exercises conducted in a required year-long Lawyering Seminar; second-year students take an advanced one-semester Lawyering Seminar in a public interest law area of their choice; third-year students earn 12-16 credits in either a field placement program or a live-client clinic.

Ten Reasons to Come to CUNY

An ongoing commitment to diversity, preparing students for practice in an increasingly multicultural world.


An excellent, approachable faculty of noted scholars and public interest practitioners.


The highest percentage of graduates placed in public interest jobs of any law school in the nation.


Justice initiatives that permit students, faculty and staff to contribute meaningfully to their communities.


The superb reputation of our graduates in public interest and public service jobs at local, state, national and international levels.


An outstanding, nationally ranked clinical program that provides opportunities for client representation to every third-year student.


Our graduates' strong New York State Bar Exam passage rate.


The intellectual and cultural opportunities available to students who become part of the nation's largest urban university.


Affordable tuition that allows graduates to pursue their career aspirations without unmanageable debt.


The only law school in the country whose stated mission is to train graduates to practice "Law in the Service of Human Needs."

CUNY - School of Law Graduates
CUNY graduates are everywhere - working in criminal defense and in law enforcement, in state and local government agencies, and at the International Criminal Court and the United Nations, in trade unions and representing undocumented workers, at legal services offices, domestic violence organizations and in private law firms, large and small. They work in the court system, as law clerks to federal, state and city judges and are beginning to take their places in the judiciary - on the New York Supreme Court, the Family Court, the Civil Court of the City of New York, and the Housing Court. They care about each other, about our students and the Law School, and about making the world a better place. They are our best resource and our greatest source of pride.

Press blue button to explore the CUNY School of Law. Law in the Service of Human Needs.

That means education at CUNY - LaGuardia Community College must maintain the highest quality. LaGuardia Community College is the best place to think globally and act locally. Whether it is in creating a piece of software or writing a play, understanding how to do calculus or understanding how to do physical therapy, students at LaGuardia Community College bring a world’s perspective to their studies.

LaGuardia Community College is the doorway through which students pass to many more achievements. Whether students use their research experience in National Science Foundation labs to become scientists, their co-op internship in accounting to secure a great job while they complete their CPA, their musical experience to compose great jazz, or their work with a local high tech industry to become an entrepreneur, LaGuardia graduates are well prepared to face the challenges of our complex world.

The best part of LaGuardia Community College is you – our next student! As we build a great institution, we welcome great students who will challenge the faculty and staff. We use our outstanding alumni to inspire the next generation of students. We welcome immigrant students to use the College as a gateway to their family and friends so that they, too, can succeed in life. We welcome the returning adult student who never thought college was for them, as well as the student just graduating from high school. Together, the rich mix of people, ideas and projects makes LaGuardia Community College outstanding. Press blue button to explore LaGuardia Community College.

Queens College prepares students to become leaders of our global society by offering a rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences under the guidance of a faculty dedicated to both teaching and research. Students graduate with the ability to think critically, address complex problems, explore various cultures, and use modern technologies and information resources. With a faculty and student population that reflects the diversity of New York City, Queens College provides an unusually rich education.

The college is located on a beautiful 77-acre, tree-lined campus surrounding grassy open spaces and a traditional Quad. The completely renovated Powdermaker Hall, the major classroom building, reopened in fall 2003 with state-of-the-art technology throughout. The Benjamin Rosenthal Library, with its soaring, light-filled atrium and distinctive clock tower, features innovations in information retrieval. The college is also expanding its wireless capability, opening new cafés and dining areas, installing plasma boards, updating the Student Union and several other buildings, and embarking on a variety of campus-beautification projects.

Because Queens is a commuter college, the administration is dedicated to making students feel that the college is their home-away-from-home, with over 100 clubs and a full athletics program. In fact, Queens is the only CUNY college that participates in Division II sports. A Child Development Center, staffed by professionals, offers inexpensive child care services to students with children. Ongoing cultural events include readings by renowned writers, concerts, and theatre and dance performances. The college is also home to the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, which houses more than 3,500 works of art.

The college offers over 115 undergraduate and graduate majors. Academic programs are organized into four divisions, which offer both day and evening courses: Arts and Humanities; Education; Mathematics and the Natural Sciences; and the Social Sciences. The college recently introduced new degree programs in Graphic Design and Neuropsychology as well as a Bachelor of Business Administration degree that offers majors in Finance, International Business, and Actuarial Studies. New additions to the graduate curriculum include a degree program in environmental geotechnology and two certificate programs: one in earth sciences for high school teachers and another in archives record management and conservation.

CUNY Honors College
Queens College participates in the CUNY Honors College. This challenging program for academically gifted students provides full tuition, an academic expense account, mentors, internships, a free laptop, special seminars, and study abroad programs. Queens College also offers its own Honors programs in the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences to qualified students.

The college is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most respected undergraduate honors organization in the United States. Fewer than 10 percent of the nation’s liberal arts colleges meet the stringent academic requirements necessary to host a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

Press blue button to explore Queens College.

Operating within the framework of The City University of New York - CUNY, Queensborough Community College is committed to fostering a collaborative, learning-centered community. The College is dedicated to academic excellence and to the development of the whole individual in an environment that promotes intellectual inquiry, global awareness, and lifelong active learning. As part of The City University of New York, we continue a tradition of academic excellence and celebrate a proven track record of success: to date, more than 46,000 students have graduated from Queensborough. More than 12,000 students are currently enrolled in one of our associate degree or certificate programs, and another 10,000 students participate in the programs offered by our Department of Continuing Education.

Queensborough is committed equally to open-admission access for all learners and to academic excellence within an environment of diversity. The College offers post-secondary associate degree and certificate programs that prepare students for careers and for transfer to four-year institutions of higher learning.

The College features a highly qualified faculty with excellent scholarly credentials, well-planned curricula and developmental course work, strong and closely integrated academic and student support services, and the use of innovative pedagogy, including educational technology.

In response to evolving community needs, Queensborough also offers non-credit courses and certificate programs and other activities. These provide community residents with accessible and affordable educational, recreational and job training opportunities, and help individuals and businesses and other institutions respond to changes in technology and the economy. The College takes a leadership role in providing access to arts and culture to enrich the quality of life for the community at large.

Enjoy outstanding entertainment here, near where you live. Our Queensborough Performing Arts Center - Q-PAC, now celebrating its 40th Anniversary, is presenting an impressive line-up for the 2005-2006 season.

Enjoy our newly renovated Art Gallery and the well-respected Holocaust Resource Center and Archives - HRCA. These unique resources, both with no admission fee, give our students, faculty and community residents a range of cultural and educational experience.

Press blue button learn more about Queensborough Community College.

Academic Philosophy
Opened in 1983, CUNY School of Law is the only law school that, from inception, has defined its mission as training law students for public interest and public service. Designed to prepare our students to practice our motto, "Law in the Service of Human Needs," our unique and integrated curriculum has made us a national leader in progressive legal education with the highest placement rate of graduates in public interest and public service careers.

The basic premise of the Law School's program is that theory cannot be separated from practice, abstract knowledge of doctrine from practical skill, and understanding the professional role from professional experience. Our curriculum integrates practical experience, professional responsibility, and lawyering skills with doctrinal study at every level. Forming the core of our lawyering curriculum are the skills recognized by the profession in its 1992 report from the ABA Taskforce on Law Schools and the Profession (commonly known as the MacCrate Report) as essential to successful law practice-problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, factual investigation, communication (legal writing, oral argument), counseling, negotiation, litigation and alternative dispute-resolution procedures, organization and management of legal work, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas.

We teach lawyering and practice skills through all three years of law school: first-year students acquire clinical experience through simulation exercises conducted in a required year-long Lawyering Seminar; second-year students take an advanced one-semester Lawyering Seminar in a public interest law area of their choice; third-year students earn 12-16 credits in either a field placement program or a live-client clinic.

Ten Reasons to Come to CUNY

An ongoing commitment to diversity, preparing students for practice in an increasingly multicultural world.


An excellent, approachable faculty of noted scholars and public interest practitioners.


The highest percentage of graduates placed in public interest jobs of any law school in the nation.


Justice initiatives that permit students, faculty and staff to contribute meaningfully to their communities.


The superb reputation of our graduates in public interest and public service jobs at local, state, national and international levels.


An outstanding, nationally ranked clinical program that provides opportunities for client representation to every third-year student.


Our graduates' strong New York State Bar Exam passage rate.


The intellectual and cultural opportunities available to students who become part of the nation's largest urban university.


Affordable tuition that allows graduates to pursue their career aspirations without unmanageable debt.


The only law school in the country whose stated mission is to train graduates to practice "Law in the Service of Human Needs."

CUNY - School of Law Graduates
CUNY graduates are everywhere - working in criminal defense and in law enforcement, in state and local government agencies, and at the International Criminal Court and the United Nations, in trade unions and representing undocumented workers, at legal services offices, domestic violence organizations and in private law firms, large and small. They work in the court system, as law clerks to federal, state and city judges and are beginning to take their places in the judiciary - on the New York Supreme Court, the Family Court, the Civil Court of the City of New York, and the Housing Court. They care about each other, about our students and the Law School, and about making the world a better place. They are our best resource and our greatest source of pride.

Press blue button to explore the CUNY School of Law. Law in the Service of Human Needs.

JFK is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, under a lease with the City of New York since June 1, 1947. In 2004, the Port Authority and the City of New York concluded an agreement that ensures the Agency's continued operation of JFK and LaGuardia airports through 2050.

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey conceives, builds, operates and maintains infrastructure critical to the New York/New Jersey region’s trade and transportation network. These facilities include America’s busiest airport system, marine terminals and ports, the PATH rail transit system, six tunnels and bridges between New York and New Jersey, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, and the World Trade Center.

For more than eight decades, the Port Authority has worked to improve the quality of life for the more than 17 million people who live and work in New York and New Jersey - a region that supports 8.6 million jobs with an estimated gross regional product of more than $929 billion.

A Bit of History
JFK has been at the forefront of aviation since its first commercial flight in 1948. In April 1942, New York City began placing hydraulic fill over the marshy tidelands of Idlewild Golf Course. Initial plans were for a modest 1,000-acre airport, but by the time construction was complete Idlewild Airport had grown to five times that size. Commercial flights began in July 1948. On December 24, 1963, the airport was rededicated John F. Kennedy International Airport in memory of the nation’s 35th president. Today, JFK is the nation’s leading international gateway, with more than 80 airlines operating from its gates

LaGuardia has been operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, under a lease with the City of New York, since June 1, 1947. In 2004, the Port Authority and the City of New York concluded an agreement that ensures the agency's continued operation of LaGuardia and JFK International through 2050.

LaGuardia contributes nearly $11 billion in economic activity to the New York-New Jersey metropolitan region, generating about 100,000 jobs and $4 billion in annual wages and salaries. Nearly 8,000 people are employed at the airport.

A Bit of History
In the mid-thirties, New York's mayor at that time, Fiorello LaGuardia, led a strong campaign to develop a more central airport in New York. Eventually, it was decided that the small, centrally located North Beach Airport would be overhauled and redeveloped. Covering just over 500 acres / 200 hectares, the new New York Municipal Airport was opened in 1939, soon to be named as the New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA).

The airport site was first occupied by the Gala Amusement Park, a popular destination owned by the Steinway family. In 1929, the park was transformed into a 105-acre private flying field and first named Glenn H. Curtiss Airport after aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss, and then re-named North Beach Airport.

In 1937, New York City took over the airport and enlarged the grounds with the purchase of adjoining land and by filling in 357 acres of waterfront along the east side. In 1939, it re-opened with a new name, New York Municipal Airport-LaGuardia Field. The airport was leased to the Port Authority in 1947.

Today, LaGuardia Airport is one of the busiest in the nation, handling more than 23 million passengers in 2008.

The Godwin-Ternbach Museum, officially established in 1981, had its genesis in the Queens College Art Collection. Drawing on its extensive and varied works, loans of artworks from other collections, and the rich educational resources of Queens College, the museum offers a dynamic schedule of changing exhibitions and programs. Through its outreach, art education programs as well as publications, lectures, music, films, and workshops are made available to individuals of all ages.

Press blue button to explore the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. For more information about the exhibition or lectures series, call 718-997-4747. Admission to the exhibition and lecture series is free.