The New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) is located in the East Garden City neighborhood of Uniondale, on Long Island, New York. New York TRACON, also known as N90, is a type of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control facility known as a consolidated TRACON, meaning that a single location provides approach service for several large airports. It is headquartered at 1515 Stewart Avenue.

Overview

The primary responsibility of the New York TRACON is the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of arrival, departure, and en-route traffic. N90 is responsible for three major airports, all located within the same New York Class B airspace: John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport. Additionally, N90 is responsible for dozens of smaller but busy fields, including Long Island MacArthur Airport, Teterboro Airport, Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, and Westchester County Airport. N90 also controls the large number of VFR aircraft that fly through the New York Class B airspace every day. The New York TRACON is a Level 12 facility and one of seven "Large TRACONs" currently existing throughout the United States. The others include the Atlanta Large TRACON (A80), the Boston Consolidated TRACON (A90), the Potomac Consolidated TRACON (PCT), the Southern California TRACON (SCT), the Dallas/Fort Worth TRACON (D10), and the Northern California TRACON (NCT). Unlike smaller TRACONs which only utilize one radar, the New York TRACON uses many different airport surveillance radar (ASR) sites, including:

Area breakdown

The New York TRACON is divided into five areas. Sectors, along with their frequencies and radio sites, are given below.

LaGuardia Area

The LaGuardia area of the TRACON controls LaGuardia Airport and several busy satellite airports and heliports: JRA (West 30th Street Heliport) JRB (Wall Street Heliport), 6N5 (East 34th Street Heliport). To the North is HPN (Westchester County Airport) and DXR (Danbury Municipal Airport). 257.65000 at White Plains 263.0000 at LaGuardia

Kennedy Area

The Kennedy area controls John F. Kennedy International Airport and its only major satellite, Republic Airport. This area controls many international flights from Europe because Kennedy is known in the aviation community as the "Gateway to America". 269.0000 at JFK

Islip Area

The Islip area controls all low altitude flights along Long Island including Long Island MacArthur Airport, East Hampton Airport, Brookhaven Airport, Francis S. Gabreski Airport, Sikorsky Memorial Airport, Tweed New Haven Airport, Montauk Airport, Waterbury–Oxford Airport, and Chester Airport. 343.6500 at HT 343.7500 at ISP

Newark Area

The Newark area of the TRACON covers Newark Liberty International Airport along with the majority of the TRACON's satellite airports including Teterboro Airport, Morristown Municipal Airport, and Caldwell/Essex County Airport. In June 2024, the control over the Newark Area will be transferred to Philadelphia TRACON. 379.9000 AT EWR

Liberty Area

The Liberty area's role is for high altitude departure control for all sectors. The Catskill position has responsibility for numerous satellites to the north of the NY TRACON airspace. Three of the higher-traffic volume satellites are Stewart International Airport, Orange County Airport, and Dutchess County Airport. 353.7500 South and west at JFK 363.1000 Catskill at HU (Huguenot) 268.7000 North and East at SW (Stewart)

Traffic Management Unit

TMU - SC ARR - DIR AMIC DEP - DIR

In popular culture

New York TRACON was the setting for the 1999 comedy-drama film Pushing Tin.