Gothamist⁠77%

LaGuardia runway remains shut until Saturday due to inspections after sinkhole repairs ⁠15%

By Ryan Kost⁠75%

5/22/2026, 12:57:21 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Loss Aversion, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 20.3% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 302 faulty-reasoning hits from 192 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠15% (18,810 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 85.90% of the article peer group.

A runway at LaGuardia Airport will remain closed Friday as Memorial Day Weekend gets underway, complicating operations at one of the region’s busiest transportation hubs during the unofficial kickoff of summer travel season, the Port Authority said. 
Runway 4/22 has been shut down since Wednesday, when workers discovered a sinkhole nearby. 
The closure contributed to a tumultuous day at LaGuardia, where nearly 290 flights were cancelled and more than 310 were delayed, according to flight tracker FlightAware — though severe evening storms also disrupted flights. 
The Port Authority had anticipated opening the runway by Friday, but officials said inspections using ground-penetrating radar on Thursday identified additional “possible areas of concern.” 
Those areas have been repaired, officials said, but crews have decided to continue inspections “out of an abundance of caution,” pushing the runway reopening to 6 a.m. 
Saturday. 
While the airport remains open, the Port Authority urged travelers to check with their airline for their flight status before heading out. 
As of shortly before 9 a.m. 
Friday, 130 flight delays and five flight cancellations were affecting LaGuardia, FlightAware data shows. 
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192 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers65%attributed speech67writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coveragePort Authority • 37 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 34 words • 0.0% coveragePort Authority • 25 words • 100.0% coveragePort Authority • 27 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coveragePort Authority • 22 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageFlightAware • 14 words • 0.0% coverage
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Port Authority

100%flagged-word coverage
111 attributed words89% of attributed speech51% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Biased Writer Voice+24.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Port Authority: 24.3%24.3%Unattributed Quote+22.5 ptsWriter: 0.0%Port Authority: 22.5%22.5%Indoctrination+19.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Port Authority: 19.8%19.8%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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