The New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) is located in Westbury, New York

Westbury, New York

Westbury incorporated in 1932 as a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 15,146 at the 2010 census.The Village of Westbury is in the Town of North Hempstead....

. New York TRACON, also known as N90, is a consolidated TRACON meaning that a single location provides approach service for several large airports.

The primary responsibility of the New York TRACON is the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of arrival, departure, and en-route traffic. N90 is responsible for three major airports, all located within the same New York Class B airspace

Airspace class

The world's navigable airspace is divided into three-dimensional segments, each of which is assigned to a specific class. Most nations adhere to the classification specified by the International Civil Aviation Organization and described below...

: John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport is an international airport located in the borough of Queens in New York City, about southeast of Lower Manhattan. It is the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States, handling more international traffic than any other airport in North...

, Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport , first named Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is an international airport within the city limits of both Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States...

, and LaGuardia Airport

LaGuardia Airport

LaGuardia Airport is an airport located in the northern part of Queens County on Long Island in the City of New York. The airport is located on the waterfront of Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay, and borders the neighborhoods of Astoria, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst. The airport was originally...

. Additionally, N90 is responsible for dozens of smaller but busy fields, including Long Island MacArthur Airport

Long Island MacArthur Airport

Long Island MacArthur Airport, formerly known as Islip Airport is a public airport located on Long Island, in Ronkonkoma, Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is seven miles northeast of the central business district of Islip hamlet...

, Teterboro Airport

Teterboro Airport

Teterboro Airport is a general aviation relief airport located in the Boroughs of Teterboro, Moonachie, and Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...

, Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, and Republic Airport

Republic Airport

Republic Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The airport is on Long Island, one mile east of the central business district of Farmingdale....

. N90 also controls the large number of VFR

Visual flight rules

Visual flight rules are a set of regulations which allow a pilot to operate an aircraft in weather conditions generally clear enough to allow the pilot to see where the aircraft is going. Specifically, the weather must be better than basic VFR weather minimums, as specified in the rules of the...

 aircraft that fly through the New York Class B airspace every day.

The New York TRACON is a Level 12 facility and one of seven "Large TRACONs" currently existing throughout the United States. The others include the Atlanta Large TRACON (A80), the Boston Consolidated TRACON

Boston Consolidated TRACON

The Boston Consolidated TRACON is located at 25 Robert Milligan Parkway in Merrimack, New Hampshire. BCT opened in 2004 after 8 years of development. The A90 function transferred to the new Boston Consolidated TRACON on February 22, 2004. The MHT function transferred over on March 7, 2004....

 (A90), the Potomac Consolidated TRACON (PCT), the Southern California TRACON (SCT), the Dallas/Fort Worth TRACON (D10), and the Northern California TRACON

Northern California TRACON

Northern California TRACON , or NorCal TRACON for short, is an air traffic control facility that provides safety alerts, separation, and sequencing of air traffic arriving, departing, and transiting the airspace and airports in northern California...

 (NCT).

Unlike smaller TRACONs which only utilize one radar, the New York TRACON uses many different airport surveillance radar

Airport Surveillance Radar

An airport surveillance radar is a radar system used at airports to detect and display the position of aircraft in the terminal area.-Digital Airport Surveillance Radar :...

 (ASR) sites, including:

• Newark (EWR)
• White Plains (HPN)
• MacArthur (ISP)
• Kennedy (JFK)
• Stewart (SWF)

Area breakdown

The New York TRACON is divided into 5 areas. Sectors, along with their frequencies and radio sites, are given below.

LaGuardia Area
The LaGuardia area of the TRACON controls LaGuardia Airport

LaGuardia Airport

LaGuardia Airport is an airport located in the northern part of Queens County on Long Island in the City of New York. The airport is located on the waterfront of Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay, and borders the neighborhoods of Astoria, Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst. The airport was originally...

 and two of the higher-traffic volume satellites, Danbury Municipal Airport

Danbury Municipal Airport

Danbury Municipal Airport is a public use general aviation airport located three miles southwest of the central business district of Danbury, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The airport opened in 1930. It is currently run by the city of Danbury.The Reliant Air building burned...

 and Westchester County Airport

Westchester County Airport

Westchester County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located three nautical miles northeast of the central business district of White Plains, in the towns of Harrison, North Castle and Rye Brook.It serves the areas of...

. It is known to many controllers as the world's most difficult airspace because of the close proximity of Kennedy and Newark arrival flows on both sides.

• EMPYR (1D): 127.3 at EWR, backup at Mount Freedom
• HAARP (1V): 120.8 at LGA, backup at Douglaston
• LGA Departure (1L): 120.4 at LGA, backup at Douglaston
• LGA Final Vector (1F): 134.9 at JFK, backup at LGA
• NOBBI (1X): 126.4 at HPN
• NYACK (1Y): 120.55 at HPN
• Military (UHF): 257.65 at HPN and 263.0 at LGA

Kennedy Area
The Kennedy area controls John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport is an international airport located in the borough of Queens in New York City, about southeast of Lower Manhattan. It is the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States, handling more international traffic than any other airport in North...

 and its only major satellite, Republic Airport

Republic Airport

Republic Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The airport is on Long Island, one mile east of the central business district of Farmingdale....

. This area controls many international flights from Europe because Kennedy is known as the "Gateway to America."

• CAMRN (2G): 127.4 at JFK, backup at Douglaston
• ILS Monitor 1 (2O): 119.1 at JFK
• ILS Monitor 2 (2T): 123.9 at JFK
• JFK Departure (2J): 135.9 at JFK, backup at Douglaston
• JFK Final Vector (2A): 132.4 at JFK
• JFK Satellite (2S): 118.4 at JFK
• ROBER (2K): 125.7 at JFK, backup at Douglaston
• Military (UHF): 269.0 at JFK

Islip area
The Islip area controls all low altitude flights along Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

 in addition to Long Island MacArthur Airport

Long Island MacArthur Airport

Long Island MacArthur Airport, formerly known as Islip Airport is a public airport located on Long Island, in Ronkonkoma, Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is seven miles northeast of the central business district of Islip hamlet...

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• BEADS (3B): 125.975 at HTO, backup at ISP AFSS
• BEADS Low (3N): 118.95 at HTO
• CCC (Calverton) (3E): 118.0 at ISP, backup at ISP AFSS
• ISP (3H): 120.05 at ISP
• LOVES (3I): 124.075 at HVN, backup at Douglaston
• SEALL (3R): 133.1 at N90
• VIKKY (3Z): 128.625 at CCC
• Military (UHF): 343.65 at HTO and 343.75 at ISP

Newark Area
The Newark area of the TRACON covers Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport , first named Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is an international airport within the city limits of both Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States...

 along with the majority of the TRACON's satellite airports including Teterboro Airport

Teterboro Airport

Teterboro Airport is a general aviation relief airport located in the Boroughs of Teterboro, Moonachie, and Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...

, Morristown Municipal Airport

Morristown Municipal Airport

Morristown Municipal Airport is a public airport located in Whippany, three miles east of the central business district of Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey, USA...

, and Caldwell/Essex County Airport

Essex County Airport

Essex County Airport is a public airport located two miles north of the central business district of Caldwell, a borough of northwestern Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey...

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• ARD (Yardley) (4P): 128.55 at EWR, backup at St. Francis
• EWR Departure (4N): 119.2 at EWR, backup at St. Francis
• EWR Final Vector 4 (4Q): 125.5 at EWR
• EWR Final Vector 22 (4M): 125.5 at EWR
• EWR Satellite (4E): 126.7 at EWR
• METRO (4H): 132.8 at SBJ
• MUGZY (4U): 127.6, EWR at backup at Mount Freedom
• North Arrival (4A): 120.15 at EWR
• ZEEBO (4S): 123.775 at SAX
• Military (UHF): 353.75 at EWR

Liberty Area
The Liberty area's role is for high altitude departure control for all sectors. The Catskill position has responsibility for numerous satellites to the north of the NY TRACON airspace. Three of the higher-traffic volume satellites are Stewart International Airport

Stewart International Airport

Stewart International Airport is located in the southern Hudson Valley, west of Newburgh, New York and over north of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The airport is located in the Town of Newburgh and the Town of New Windsor."." U.S. Census Bureau...

, Orange County Airport

Orange County Airport (New York)

New York’s Orange County Airport is an untowered general aviation airport located 1 mile southwest of village of Montgomery, in the Town of Montgomery, New York...

, and Dutchess County Airport

Dutchess County Airport

Dutchess County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport located on State Route 376 in the Town of Wappinger, Dutchess County, New York, United States, four miles south of the central business district of Poughkeepsie. It is sometimes called Poughkeepsie Airport, which gives it the code POU...

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• Catskill (5H): 132.75 at SWF
• East (56): 126.8 at CMK, backup at POU
• “LIBBU” (59): 135.65 at SWF
• North (52): 118.175 at LGA, backup at JFK
• South (58): 124.75 at EWR, backup at Mount Freedom
• West (54): 120.85 at EWR, backup at SBJ
• Military (UHF): South and West, 353.75 at JFK; Catskill, 363.1 at HUO; North and East, 268.7 at SWF