^ Whether it's a "new airport" or not, the idea that this is the first such project in the US for 25 years is just false... several US airports have done complete terminal replacements like LGA within the last 25 years.
Of course, if it ain't in New York, it didn't happen...
Also, the 25 year figure is pretty clearly meant to refer to Denver which opened DIA in 1995, but that was an entirely new airport, including both the airfield and terminal. The LGA project is certainly not the same kind of project. The whole 25 years thing feeds into a uniquely American form of complaining, how we don't "build anything anymore" but we refuse to pay the taxes needed to build infrastructure on a large scale, refuse to deal with the fact that we pay the highest costs for infrastructure in the world, and we fight like hell whenever a new piece of infrastructure is planned in
our backyard.
It also seems to imply that US cities should build gargantuan new airports out in BFE to keep up with the Joneses in Dubai and Beijing, even though the existing airports in most US cities are usually plenty big enough to deal with the demand that exists for air travel, and it completely ignores how the US has neglected its rail system which should be picking up a lot of the short to medium-range trips.