Logan International Airport
General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, also known as Boston Logan International Airport and commonly as Boston Logan, Logan Airport or simply Logan, is an international airport that is located mostly in East Boston and partially in Winthrop, Massachusetts. It opened in 1923, covers 2,384 acres (965 ha), has six runways and four passenger terminals, and employs an estimated 16,000 people. It is the largest airport in both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the New England region in terms of passenger volume and cargo handling as well as the busiest airport in the Northeastern United States outside the New York metropolitan area. The airport saw 42 million passengers in 2019, the most in its history. It is named after General Edward Lawrence Logan, a 20th-century soldier and politician native to Boston.
Image: Flight from Toronto to Boston. Over Boston. panoramio (cropped)
FAA airport diagram
Cargo loading of a Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 during a temporary closure due to heavy snowfall
Logan Airport's Terminal B
East Boston, nicknamed Eastie, is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States that was annexed by the city of Boston in 1637. Neighboring communities include Winthrop, Revere, and Chelsea. It is separated from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown and downtown Boston by Boston Harbor. The footprint of the East Boston neighborhood as it is known today was created in the 1940s by connecting five of the inner harbor islands using land fill. Logan International Airport is located in East Boston, connecting Boston to domestic and international locations.
An airplane approaching Logan International Airport in 1973
William H. Sumner
Boston Harbor, including Noddle's, Hog's, Governor's, Bird's and Apple Islands (1711)
Internment Camps, East Boston, MA: German gardens, constructed by men of interned liners (1918)