Copter Rage in Brooklyn Heights
Not in my back river? Some Brooklyn Heights residents are complaining about noise from the Downtown Manhattan heliport, says an article in the Post, and they’re less than thrilled about plans to allow dozens more sightseeing flights to take off from the facility every day. The Brooklyn Heights Association wants helicopter tours completely banned: “What…
Not in my back river? Some Brooklyn Heights residents are complaining about noise from the Downtown Manhattan heliport, says an article in the Post, and they’re less than thrilled about plans to allow dozens more sightseeing flights to take off from the facility every day. The Brooklyn Heights Association wants helicopter tours completely banned: “What we have now is best described as a free-for-all of helicopters criss-crossing over Brooklyn Heights, at distances no greater than a few hundred feet,” the group wrote in a letter to the EDC. A neighborhood resident says he no longer uses his balcony because the helicopter noise means “even nose-to-nose conversation is impossible.” The Post had a similar story about helicopter noise this summer in which residents said the din has become worse recently. Any Heights or Dumbo residents care to comment on how big a quality-of-life issue this is?
B’klyn Hts is Chopping Mad [NY Post]
Photo by nautical2k.
The news choppers are definitely the worst, and it’s absurd that more than 1 of them is allowed in the same area at the same time.
Every six months or so it seems one of them crashes somewhere in the country while doing something stupid and having visions of filming the next OJ chase.
If we can’t ban them, and we at least impose a 1500% tax on helicopter fuel?
You are missing the point, which is to spare Manhattan residents the undue noise and bother of the Chelsea heliport. It was closed and all the traffic diverted to the Downtown heliport. Our City fathers could give a flying leap about Brooklyn or its residents. Manhattan groups sued the FTA and got rid of the heliport near them. Now its our turn.
Ljubitca is right the problem is not just Brooklyn Heights. The News choppers hover over Carroll Gardens where they are getting a good traffic shot of the Gowanus Expy and the Battery Tunnel entry for the morning news programs. They’ll just hover for 15-20 minutes at a time and god forbid there’s a major accident, there will be two or three of those f’ing things up there for 45 minutes or more.
“tourists on those double decker buses with the screeching brakes that tear at my intestines, is the noise that comes from those copters”
Welcome to “gentrified” Brooklyn.
I can hear one humming right now as I write this…I’ve definitely noticed an uptick in how often they’re buzzing around, mostly rush hours. I work late and have been woken in the morning by them before. If they were to add all day tourist tours, who knows how annoying it could be. Also, I’m in Boerum Hill, not the other BH.
Wait we live in Carroll Gardens so this is not about Brooklyn Heights – I can hear those f’ing helicopters all the time and the only thing I hate more than tourists on those double decker buses with the screeching brakes that tear at my intestines, is the noise that comes from those copters – this isnt just in BH its in CG and in Cobble hill and any of us who live nearer to the coast have to just put up with whatever money making scheme some schmuck has come up with to destroy humanity. AND I DONT HAVE A CASE OF THE MONDAYS CHRIST!!!!
“The Brooklyn Heights Association wants helicopter tours completely banned”
Not going to happen.
It wasn’t me, it was my nonprofit where I sit on the board, and I had to go smooth things over. Hence the comment I received from a few weeks ago, “This conversation is going a long ways toward ending our differences. In fact I think they are ended.”
driving a hearse without a license?