JFK: The World’s Loudest Waiting Room and Its Global Hangover
Terminal 4 at JFK smells of jet fuel, wet croissants, and global anxiety. Somewhere between Gate B32 and the Hudson News stand, a Congolese diplomat is arguing with a TSA agent about a confiscated jar of kwanga, a Korean pop star is live-streaming the chaos to 14 million teenagers, and a Latvian grandmother is quietly…