La Guardia's Writers in Residence

In Terminal A in New York City’s La Guardia Airport, in a space outside security that used to be a Hudson News kiosk, the writers and close friends Gideon Jacobs and Lexie Smith, who both live in Ridgewood, Queens, have set up a writing nook with stacks of books, wooden furniture, rugs and a vintage typewriter. There they are, writing unique, fictional stories for fliers.

This specific initiative, named Landing Pages, is part of a residency program established by the Queens Council on the Arts and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs La Guardia Airport. Over the coming year Queens-based artists are taking over the airport space for three months at a time to experiment with their mediums. Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Smith are the first (their project began May 2).

From “You Have Airport Stories. Now, an Airport Will Write a Story for You.” by Alyson Krueger for the New York Times; Photo by Paasha Motamedi 

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