The Port Authority has narrowed the pool of potential hoteliers for JFK's Terminal 5 to?just one, the rumored favorite, Andre Balazs. And if he gets the project, his hotel will be called the Standard, Flight Center, Page Six. "It is a great honor to be entrusted with the preservation and revitalization of this masterpiece by my personal architectural hero," says Balazs, who previously professed himself not so into Saarinen's swoops. [Page Six; previously]
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