The best five things about La Guardia Airport:

5) The juxtaposition of an old, dilapidated terminal that looks like it's going to collapse against shiny, new modern terminals.

4) The endless line of free magazines and newspapers in the Marine Air Terminal for Delta Shuttle flyers.

3) The landing route with a south or southwest wind when you fly in from the south: up the Hudson over the West Side Highway, and then around to the east and then south.

2) More roads, merges, twists, turns, ramps, forks, and exits than you can imagine in a narrow strip of land between the parkway and the East River.

1) Landing from the northeast and being convinced you're going to touch down in the water, when all of a sudden the paper-thin runway extension appears under the plane just in time.