That happened on a recent Friday at the Bronx Museum, 165th Street and the Grand Concourse, at about five-forty-five in theveningng.
Officials and bomb-sniffing dogs turned up nothing hazardous in a search of the passenger's bags, Pier B and the planes, and the concourse reopened about 1 15 p.m., said Melanie Miller, a spokeswoman for the airport.
An airport spokesman, Jim Reynolds, said that the concourse reopened after about two hours, but that some flights were running about three hours late.
And in a voice whose rhythms were still traceable to somewhere near the Grand Concourse, she talked about the route her working life had taken, and about the times she chose to veer from that path.
She has marked out 100 trees along the Concourse, which is about four and a half miles long.
They will be liberated from the pit known as Penn Station, a deplorable place that even the new New Jersey Transit concourse, which cost about $125 million, can't ameliorate.
Officials estimate that construction of the concourse will provide about 6,000 jobs and $300 million in wages.
The fire was discovered at about 7.30 pm, and smoke poured through into the mainline station concourse above.
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Ben Herbert, from Network Rail, said most people he had spoken to at the exhibition, being held in the station's present concourse, had been "very positive" about the changes.
