Will This Be the Next Airport Hotel at JFK?
Yesterday while everyone was enjoying leisurely Sunday brunches and autumnal walks in the park, our sister site Jaunted was on a field trip...to the airport. No, they weren't flying anywhere, but checking out the architectural gem that is the old TWA Flight Center, a 1960s piece of history that now could become the latest hot airport hotel.
The building is on the National Register of Historic Places, so it's here to stay. Thing is, the Port Authority can't figure out what to do with it. Plans to turn it into fancy check-in area for JetBlue flights fizzled, as did ideas to make it a museum or simply preserve it as a shrine to retro air travel. They've got to turn a dollar on the place with all the renovations going into it, and thus it was discussed back in February that perhaps it should become a hotel.
Well, Jaunted got a good look at the place and the potential is huge. Could Andre Balazs step in and christen it The Standard Airport? That'd be awesome. Could it be Yotel's first US airport location? Absolutely, especially since they go for capsule-like rooms, which could be built into the plain wings that already project from each side of the main, striking Saarinen-designed structure.
A ticketing desk in each room! That'd be the day. That'd be the day we hope we see.
The building from outside
A wing of ticketing desks
The building's Constellation Club, which The Top of The Standard already kind of looks like
Check out the entire collection of 30 photos here.
[Photos: Jaunted]
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