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Sinkhole found near LaGuardia runway, prompting warnings of delays and cancellations
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Louis C. Hochman
Published May 20, 2026
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The Port Authority is warning travelers to expect delays and cancellations at LaGuardia Airport due to a sinkhole discovered near a runway on Wednesday morning.
The airport said in an announcement on social media that the runway was immediately shut down after the sinkhole was discovered around 11 a.m. and emergency construction crews were working to determine the cause and make repairs.
LaGuardia was leading FlightAware.com's "Misery Map" of delays and cancellations on Wednesday afternoon, with 270 delays and 197 cancellations in or out of the airport.
Notices on LaGuardia's website also warned of potential delays due to Wednesday's weather conditions, which included brutal heat and expected thunderstorms.
Average delays were under an hour as of about 4:30 p.m.
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Louis C. Hochman
After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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