New York, NY – Police Radios Don’t Work Inside New $743M JetBlue Terminal

New York, NY – The new $743 million JetBlue terminal at JFK Airport is a police radio “dead zone” that puts Port Authority cops in a Ground Zero-like communications blackout that has already led to a slew of police injuries, The Post has learned.

The embarrassing gaffe was discovered by PA honchos some six months before the cavernous, 26-gate terminal opened to the public in October 2008, when officials ran down a checklist of safety issues, an agency insider said.

“There was a moment of, ‘Oops! The police radios aren’t going to work,’ ” the source said.

One angry PAPD supervisor characterized the agency’s blunder as an indefensible, especially since it set aside a whopping $663 million to pay for the terminal’s construction, with JetBlue picking up the rest of the tab.

“It is absolutely mind-boggling that a terminal built after 9/11 would have a flaw like this that would prevent communication between police officers,” he said.

A permanent fix will cost an estimated $3 million and is many months away from completion, a source said, adding:

“There’s no cheap fix or quick fix for this.”