About 700 yards (640 meters) from the end of a runway at LaGuardia Airport, where thousands of planes take off and land, New York City officials want to build what could be the equivalent of a bird magnet: a very large garbage transfer station.
This just four months after a run-in with birds sent a jetliner full of people into the Hudson River separating New York and New Jersey.
"That's just insane," said Jeff Skiles, co-pilot of USAirways Flight 1549, which ditched in the water Jan. 15. "We have a lot of difficulty keeping birds away from airports as it is."
The city and the Federal Aviation Administration insist that the …
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