Overhauling La Guardia, an Airport With a Historical Name but a Tarnished Image

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has declared that the $4 billion rebuilding planned at La Guardia Airport in Queens will amount to replacing the airport “in its entirety.”

So is it time, after 76 years, to replace the name, too?

Patrick J. Foye, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs New York City’s airports, said this week that there were no plans to do so.