New York’s Best Airport?

The Starbucks salted caramel cream cold brew is a difficult drink to get right. You would think it’d be easy—cold brew, cold foam, a few spritzes of caramel, a dash of salt—but of the maybe sixty Starbucks salted caramel cream cold brews that I’ve had, only one truly stands out as an excellent, perhaps even Platonic, example of the form. This Starbucks salted caramel cream cold brew had caramel not only in the cold brew itself, but also mixed into the cold foam, rendering the entire drinking experience one of smooth, sweet saltiness. Usually, I order the salted caramel cream cold brew and mostly just kind of scoop the foam off with the lid. This one? I drank the whole thing. I was at LaGuardia.

I wasn’t there to go anywhere, just to visit. I like to see the newest, hottest buildings, and I’d heard that this was one of them. I also may have been persuaded by an editor to make the trek. So on a random Tuesday, a few days after arriving from Europe through JFK, which I almost always choose over LGA when I can, I drove out. It took me forty-five minutes of winding my wa…