

Area B controls departures heading west, south, and southwest out of N90 (New York TRACON).

This traffic is handed off in trail on en route airways to Washington Center (ZDC) to the South and Cleveland Center (ZOB) to the West.Īrea B covers the East side of Pennsylvania, the northern half of New Jersey, and Long Island west of Deer Park (DPK).

Area A's high altitude sectors work departures from all the above airports, and feed them into existing streams received from Area B departing NY & BOS metro areas as well as those coming from over the ocean and from Canada. Area A also feeds Harrisburg Approach, controlling Harrisburg Int'l (MDT), Lancaster Airport (LNS), York (THV), Reading Regional Airport (RDG), Allentown Airport (ABE) and other PA airports. The area also feeds traffic into PCT (Potomac Consolidated TRACON) which runs arrivals and departures for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), and other area airports. Area A puts arrivals in trail for Philadelphia TRACON via the BUNTS feed (its busiest) heading to Philadelphia Int'l (PHL), Wilmington DE Airport (ILG) and other Eastern PA and Northern NJ airports. In ZNY, the Areas are Lettered A through F.Īrea A covers the southeast edge of Pennsylvania. Within the Center there are 6 Areas, which other ARTCC's might call specialties. These are broken down into Low Altitude and High Altitude sectors, with 16 Low Altitude sectors and 12 High altitude sectors. ZNY handles a total of 28 sectors, excluding Oceanic sectors. The sector shelves start as low 0 AGL and top out as high as Flight Level 600 (60,000 ft) ASL. Of that, 17,000 square miles (44,000 km 2) are mainland airspace, and the remaining 3,250,000 square miles (8,400,000 km 2) is oceanic airspace. New York Center manages 3,270,000 square miles (8,500,000 km 2) of airspace. Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) in Philadelphia/Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania.Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City, New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York City, New York.Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark/Elizabeth, New Jersey.ZNY assumes control over several Class Bravo (Class B) airports, including Its primary responsibility is the separation of overflights, and the expedited sequencing of arrivals and departures along Standard Terminal Arrival Routes and Standard Instrument Departures for the entire New York Metropolitan Area and Philadelphia. Long Island MacArthur Airport is north of the ARTCC. The Center is located at 4205 Johnson Avenue on Long Island in Ronkonkoma, a hamlet (unincorporated community) in the Town of Islip, New York, United States, near New York City.
