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Abandoned and little-known NYC airfields.

Queens
Flushing Airport - Fort Tilden Blimp Field - Glen H. Curtiss Airport / North Beach Airport
Holmes Airport  - Rockaway NAS  - Rockaway Airport / Edgemere NOLF

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Queens.htm

Brooklyn:
Barren Island Airport / Floyd Bennett Field / New York NAS / Brooklyn CGAS (revised 8/17/12) - Governor's Island AAF
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Brooklyn.htm

SI
Donovan Hughes Airport (revised 6/13/12) - Miller AAF (revised 6/13/12) - Richmond County Airport (revised 7/22/12) - Staten Island Airport
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_StatenI.htm
 
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mack said:
Abandoned and little-known NYC airfields.

Queens
Flushing Airport - Fort Tilden Blimp Field - Glen H. Curtiss Airport / North Beach Airport
Holmes Airport  - Rockaway NAS  - Rockaway Airport / Edgemere NOLF

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Queens.htm

Brooklyn:
Barren Island Airport / Floyd Bennett Field / New York NAS / Brooklyn CGAS (revised 8/17/12) - Governor's Island AAF
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Brooklyn.htm

SI
Donovan Hughes Airport (revised 6/13/12) - Miller AAF (revised 6/13/12) - Richmond County Airport (revised 7/22/12) - Staten Island Airport
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_StatenI.htm
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  There was a small airfield where Co-op City stands today in the Bronx
 
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There is a wb site "Littke known airfields, it covers the entire US. Checked out Illinois, wow!
 
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Heres a map from 1947 that shows all of the SI airports.

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Or if you want a long interesting read heres a website about SI airports.

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_StatenI.htm
 
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For those who remember SI airport - there was a drive-in movie, a farmers market and the airport.  No SI Mall.  The landfill was much smaller.  All Deppes with its giant hot dog was at AK Rd along with a miniature golf.  Not much in between except a growing landfill.  It was called a dump back then and was the location of many stubborn garbage 2nd alarms.
 
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Up to the 1960s, L 84 responded as 2nd due truck all the way to Richmond Ave and Arthur Kill Red.  No highway, had to use old Drumgoole Blvd.  No Engines 165, 166, 167, 168, Ladders 85, 86, 87.  Long runs, poor water supply, potholes' dirt roads, dummy fire alarm boxes, companies from Brooklyn or Manhattan had to use the ferries if relocated to S I.


 
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Remember back then on Staten Island - Engine 159, 163, & Ladder 83 all has long runs.... The island was the brush fire capital of NYC!!!! 

I was on that website about former airfields last month. I hate to tell you - Floyd Bennett Field still maintains an active runway! YES!!! FAA approved & its inspected yearly. I have assisted in either landing or take off's of several hundred aircraft & I am not talking about NYPD Helicopters in recent years. Back in 2007 there was an airshow there. The Berlin Airlift Musuem sometimes houses its C-54 & C-97 there. The C-97 is a converted USAF KC-97. The KC-97 was a tanker used by the Strategic Air Command back in the days of the Cold War. It is being rehabbed at the field in Hanger "B". Since its nolong a military aircraft, the tanker equipment had to be removed. The aircraft has been repainted & numbered to match the only C-97 that was used in the airlift at the end of WWII.  We even landed a C-130-J from the 109th AirWing (USAF/ NYSAir Guard). The runway is 1 mile long. The field is known for being the home of Marine, Navy, Coast Graud aviation units, but it also was the home of an SAC light or medium, bomb squadron. This unit would patrol the ocean area looking for submarines during WWII. The squadron was later on moved to the former Suffolk County Air Force Base. Today that unit is part of the 106th air wing. That unit is a 'P-J' rescue Sq. that was made famous in the movie "Perfect Storm".
 
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Miller Field, an Army airfield in New Dorp, was the site of the wreckage of one of the aircraft in 1960.  The other plane fell into Park Slope.  SI had a 2nd alarm.  E 165 and L 85 were brand new units.  E 165 did not wait for military police to open a gate for them.  They blew right through a fence when they saw the catastrophe.

http://www.silive.com/specialreports/index.ssf/2011/03/1960_mid-air_crash_over_staten.html

Back then, it would have been E 165, L 85, E 159, L 82 Bn 23 on the initial alarm (E 162 would be the 3rd due engine if assigned).  Bn 23 Chief Carmody transmitted the 2n on arrival and 2nd alarm companies most likely would have been E 161, L 81 (which had recently moved from E 159), E 160, E 163, L 84 or L 83 and R 5.  R 5 was located at E 155 and was manned by L 78 members when operating as a rescue.  L 78 was crosstrained and staffed with an extra FFs.  L 78 also rarely responded out of their district because of their dual responsibilities. R 5 would later be disbanded in 1962 after the VN Bridge was built and later reorganized as a fully staffed rescue at E 160 in the 1980s.

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mack said:
Abandoned and little-known NYC airfields.

Queens
Flushing Airport - Fort Tilden Blimp Field - Glen H. Curtiss Airport / North Beach Airport
Holmes Airport - Rockaway NAS - Rockaway Airport / Edgemere NOLF

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Queens.htm

Brooklyn:
Barren Island Airport / Floyd Bennett Field / New York NAS / Brooklyn CGAS (revised 8/17/12) - Governor's Island AAF
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_Brooklyn.htm

SI
Donovan Hughes Airport (revised 6/13/12) - Miller AAF (revised 6/13/12) - Richmond County Airport (revised 7/22/12) - Staten Island Airport
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_NY_StatenI.htm
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Great reading info Mack! Very cool history.
 
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