{"id":239055,"date":"2026-05-21T08:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239055\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:51:15","slug":"sinkhole-shuts-down-runway-at-new-york-laguardia-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239055\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole shuts down runway at New York LaGuardia airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/archaeology\/article-858527\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sinkhole<\/a> on Wednesday forced the closure of one of the runways at New York&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/tech-and-start-ups\/article-721370\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaGuardia<\/a> airport, prompting cancellations and delays and ongoing emergency repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Authority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-896125\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> and New Jersey, which manages New York City area airports, said at 11 a.m. officials were conducting a daily morning inspection of LaGuardia\u2019s airfield when crews identified a sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The authority warned &#8220;travelers should expect delays and cancellations, particularly with forecast thunderstorms expected later today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">About 200 flights, or 17% of departing and arriving flights were canceled at LaGuardia and 190 delayed, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Delta Air Lines is the largest carrier at LaGuardia, accounting for about 40% of flights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">No injuries were reported in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sinkhole on Wednesday forced the closure of one of the runways at New York&#8217;s LaGuardia airport, prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9303,15617,9,24,55,54,56,58522],"class_list":["post-239055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-airport","tag-flights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sinkhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}