Grounds crews prepare a plane for flight at LaGuardia Airport Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in New York. Most airlines were giving up on flying in and out of New York, Boston and other airports in the American Northeast on Friday as a massive storm threatened to dump up to a meter of snow in some parts. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)New York State plans to spend $37.5 million on flood obstacles and more advantageous drainage at LaGuardia Airport, Governor Andrew Cuomo mentioned on Sunday, somewhat more than a yr after flooding as a result of Typhoon Sandy closed the facility for 3 days. Work has already begun on the projects, which embrace constructing barriers around the airport's electrical systems, increasing the airfield's drainage network and bettering the airport's again-up mills. About $28 million of the project's cost is anticipated to be coated by using federal cash put aside for catastrophe-mitigation efforts by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the areas airports, Cuomo's place of job said in a remark. LaGuardia Airport sits on the north shore of Queens in New York Metropolis, abutting the East River's Flushing Bay.