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John F. Kennedy Airport is situated in Queens, 12 miles south east of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is the busiest international passenger gateway in the United States, handling more international traffic than any other airport in North America.
Dedicated as New York International Airport in 1948, the airport was more commonly known as Idlewild Airport (after the Idlewild Golf Course that it displaced) until 1963, when it was renamed in memory of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.
The airport has six terminals, four runways and four helipads. Until the 1990s, it had 10 terminals.
DID YOU KNOW?
JFK International Airport was the setting for the 2004 film The Terminal, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The movie is about a man who becomes trapped in the terminal when he is denied entry into the United States yet cannot return to his native country because of a revolution.