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Word: heliports (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as spectacular in its own way is the new heliport that opened for business last week atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building, 59 stories in the air. From that pad, New York Airways will whisk travelers from midtown Manhattan to Kennedy Airport in only seven minutes (v. the 45-minute taxi trip) for $7. Passengers can check their luggage at Pan Am's mezzanine-level counter, never have to bother with it again until they land in London or Bombay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: New Pad | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...promise-to turn the fairgrounds into a city park. The city is now negotiating to keep the handsome Federal Building as a training center for high school dropouts and the New York State Pavilion as an all-purpose theater. Other permanent fixtures are the Hall of Science and the heliport, which will become the focal point for an eleven-acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: To the Bitter End | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: VIEWS | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

HELICOPTER TOUR. From the air, the riotous array of bubble-tops, fluted roofs and rainbow-colored domes make the fair look like a toyland tucked along Flushing Bay. Choppers lift off every eight minutes from the Port Authority heliport, make a figure 8 before plumping back down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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