A TWA Hotel, planned as a redevelopment of the now-defunct airline’s terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, recently started accepting event bookings.
The hotel will preserve the TWA terminal built by architect Eero Saarinen and originally opened in 1962. The terminal closed in 2001, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Developer MCR and Morse Development plan to open the 512-room TWA Hotel in spring 2019 as the first hotel on the JFK airport campus.
It will have 50,000 square feet of conference, event and meeting space.
It will also have six restaurants, eight bars, a 10,000-square-foot rooftop observation deck with a pool, and a museum “devoted to the Jet Age and TWA,” according to the developers.
The hotel will be accessible via AirTrain and “passenger tubes” connecting to Terminal 5 at JFK.
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