Narrative:

We were expecting the expressway visual into runway 31 in lga. We were coming in on the KORRY3 arrival from the north and at the end of the arrival we were told we would be getting a right turn. It wasn't clear at the time; but they meant a right base to final for 31 and no longer a turn to eventually join the expressway visual to 31.we were still fairly high and getting step downs and precise speeds on our vectors toward the final for 31. This is from the area where there was all the information published about the crane which was in my mind and further distracting as I wasn't fully aware of its current position due to my lack of flying into lga recently.I'm a fairly junior captain and still on high minimums and this was my first leg with the first officer flying. He was less than a year into the company and although having done a great job so far it was still on my mind to keep a good eye on his flying and situational awareness.as we approached the final approach course we were given instructions to look for traffic that we were to follow. This traffic was on the expressway visual. We didn't initially see this traffic. On the second call out from ATC the traffic came into sight and we called it in sight and were cleared for the visual. We were still high and fast and tight on that traffic.I immediately asked if the first officer wanted the gear down and flaps 30 and he called for it and we continued to slow to final approach speed.we received our handoff to lga tower right after this and upon initial contact we weren't given landing clearance so we continued. We were stable and on speed by 1;000 feet and on the 1;000 foot call I stated 'no landing clearance'. We were still tight on space with the prior aircraft at this point. Closing in on 500 feet we received the landing clearance from ATC and I restated clear to land to the first officer and verified the landing nose light was on and that we were fully configured.upon touchdown the first officer attempted to deploy the thrust reversers and stated they would not deploy. We were slowing down sufficiently and were able to get off prior to the intersection of runway 4/22. When I took the controls I also attempted to deploy the reversers to see if I would have any success. I didn't have any so as I looked around to see what the issue was. It was clear to me that I never armed the reversers prior to landing which then also made me realize I never ran the before landing checklist.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier Captain cited distractions that occurred on vectors to a visual approach to Runway 31 at LGA as contributing to a failure to run the before landing checklist and to arm the thrust reversers. Landing rollout was uneventful.

Narrative: We were expecting the Expressway Visual into Runway 31 in LGA. We were coming in on the KORRY3 Arrival from the north and at the end of the arrival we were told we would be getting a right turn. It wasn't clear at the time; but they meant a right base to final for 31 and no longer a turn to eventually join the Expressway Visual to 31.We were still fairly high and getting step downs and precise speeds on our vectors toward the final for 31. This is from the area where there was all the information published about the crane which was in my mind and further distracting as I wasn't fully aware of its current position due to my lack of flying into LGA recently.I'm a fairly junior Captain and still on high minimums and this was my first leg with the First Officer flying. He was less than a year into the company and although having done a great job so far it was still on my mind to keep a good eye on his flying and situational awareness.As we approached the final approach course we were given instructions to look for traffic that we were to follow. This traffic was on the expressway visual. We didn't initially see this traffic. On the second call out from ATC the traffic came into sight and we called it in sight and were cleared for the visual. We were still high and fast and tight on that traffic.I immediately asked if the First Officer wanted the gear down and flaps 30 and he called for it and we continued to slow to final approach speed.We received our handoff to LGA Tower right after this and upon initial contact we weren't given landing clearance so we continued. We were stable and on speed by 1;000 feet and on the 1;000 foot call I stated 'no landing clearance'. We were still tight on space with the prior aircraft at this point. Closing in on 500 feet we received the landing clearance from ATC and I restated clear to land to the First Officer and verified the landing nose light was on and that we were fully configured.Upon touchdown the First Officer attempted to deploy the thrust reversers and stated they would not deploy. We were slowing down sufficiently and were able to get off prior to the intersection of Runway 4/22. When I took the controls I also attempted to deploy the reversers to see if I would have any success. I didn't have any so as I looked around to see what the issue was. It was clear to me that I never armed the reversers prior to landing which then also made me realize I never ran the before landing checklist.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.