sentences:  While the planned distribution facilities never materialized, the area did become the site of the short lived Jersey City Airport, which opened in 1927.For a short time the airport was operated by Eddie August Schneider, a native of the city and one of early aviation's youthful celebrities.After the end of World War Two, Jersey Skyports was founded by three former Naval aviators, Edward Selig Binder, John Barteluse, and Bill Christie, and operated for five years.