And for my next question: are you under the impression that air traffic controllers only work at towers?

Not at all.

But now that I know that you know a bit about ATC. Let's drop the pretense.

We're both fully aware that there are right around 1250 ATC controllers in New York state. I further suspect that both of us know exactly how many work LGA. So there's no need to speak in generalities any longer.

It's time to get serious about determining what happened in this instance. It appears, from the initial available information, that there was not even a relief on site.

That practice needs to stop, and please don't try to tell me we don't have the available staff to bring it to an end. You and I both know that's horse manure.