page_title: Newark Liberty International Airport
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Newark Liberty International Airport / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) Terminal A at night in 2005.
context_page_description: Newark Liberty International Airport, originally Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is an international airport straddling the boundary between the cities of Newark and Elizabeth in Essex County and Union County, New Jersey. It is one of the major airports of the New York metropolitan area. The airport is currently owned jointly by the cities of Elizabeth and Newark and leased to and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
  Newark Airport is located 3 miles south of Downtown Newark, and 9 miles west-southwest of the borough of Manhattan. It is one of three major airports serving the New York metropolitan area; the others are John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport, which are also operated by the Port Authority.
  Sandwiched between Interstate 95 and Interstate 78, as well as U.S. Routes 1 and 9, the airport handles more flights than John F. Kennedy International Airport, despite being 40 percent of JFK's land size. The City of Newark built the airport on 68 acres of marshland in 1928 and the Army Air Corps operated the facility during World War II.
caption: Terminal A at night in 2005
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