I always loved flying the Canarsie VOR approach and I have always thanked the citizens of Ozone Park for making it necessary.
It wasn't too good from the fuel burn point of view if you were coming off the Atlantic for it could add 4T to the burn as compared to a straight-in on 22L.
Canarsie VOR was also the first one in the world that I came across where a knowledge of the Morse code was irrelevant. It used say "This is the Canarsie VOR" - "This is the Canarsie VOR".
Why didn't this simple idea catch on?
Have any of you out there been asked to side-step to 13R halfway round? It only happened to me once.