Yes, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is closer to Santa Barbara Muni Airport (SBA) than to John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). LAX is only 88 miles (142 kilometers or 77 nautical miles) from SBA, but JFK is 2,469 miles (3,974 kilometers or 2,146 nautical miles) away.
LGA is closer.
JFK is closer.
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LaGuardia
This is a bit of a tricky question. JFK is much further south than LaGuardia, making it much closer to downtown Manhattan, north/south-wise. But JFK is also much further east than LaGuardia, making LaGuardia technically closer as the crow flies (meaning, if you were to draw an imaginary, direct line between the two). Basically, if you were to draw a straight line west (northwest, actually) from LaGuardia to Manhattan, the line would hit upper Manhattan (at around 116th Street or so). If you were to draw a straight line (north)west from JFK to Manhattan, the line would hit lower (downtown) Manhattan, a little bit south of 14th Street. But since JFK is much further east, the drive in miles from LaGuardia to downtown Manhattan is still a bit shorter than the drive in miles from JFK to downtown Manhattan.
I think LaGuardia by a little.
LaGuardia is closer. Both JFK and LaGuardia are in Queens. Newark is in New Jersey.
Depends what part of Brooklyn. JFK is closer to the southern end laguardia is closer to like Williamsburg and that general area
JFK fought in the Mexican American war
It really doesn't matter. All three of the major airports serving New York City (JFK, LaGuardia, Newark) are roughly the same distance from Manhattan. LaGuardia is the closest to Manhattan (it's roughly four miles closer than JFK, and roughly ten miles closer than Newark), but it seems awfully strange for a person to specifically choose to fly into LaGuardia just so the taxi ride to and from their hotel will be 10 or 15 minutes shorter.
Southwest Airlines flies from JFK airport. Delta and American Airlines fly more often from the JFK International airport, however. This is because they are based closer to the Northeast.
JFK Airport is large. It has 4,930 acres. The airport has more than 30 miles of roadway.