The Planes, the Pain!
There is now 52% more low altitude plane traffic over Park Slope, according to the FHA. The Brooklyn Paper reports that this traffic is the result of new airspace design patterns implemented in 2007 that bring planes headed for LaGuardia through a corridor from Bay Ridge, over Park Slope to the Long Island Expressway. Helicopters…
There is now 52% more low altitude plane traffic over Park Slope, according to the FHA. The Brooklyn Paper reports that this traffic is the result of new airspace design patterns implemented in 2007 that bring planes headed for LaGuardia through a corridor from Bay Ridge, over Park Slope to the Long Island Expressway. Helicopters are also directed over Park Slope and Prospect Park, as per information gathered through the Freedom of Information Act by an irate Park Slope resident, who is also a pilot. The new traffic patterns are meant to alleviate congestion at LGA, and other local airports. For some residents, according to the article, the noise is unbearable. What say you Park Slopers?
Noise Over Slope Was Not All In Your Head [Brooklyn Paper]
Map: the Brooklyn Paper
I live in Prospect Heights and although the planes come over our house constantly, they don’t bother me. Helicopter noise, on the other hand, is a MAJOR pain. I’m often woken btw 5 and 6:30am by copters that sound so close I imagine they are landing in my backyard. Have wondered if they are traffic copters sussing out road conditions on nearby Flatbush and Atlantic Aves. Then there are the cops aloft. Can someone tell me, do they really catch perps by flying over a nabe in the middle of the night?
LMAO, Lech!!
Jackal/Lechacal: FUNNY!
But wait – don’t you live in Park Slope?!?
I lived in Arlington, Virginia, for a year, and the noise in South Slope is nowhere near as bad as the planes taking off and landing at National. I tended not to notice the planes here until my one-year-old became fascinated by them. He hears them before I do, gets all excited and points up at the sky. The Holy Grail, though, are helicopters (which he calls “helica”) because they’re lower and louder (and I do find them annoying, actually).
lechacal,
Oh snap! High fiver for that!
Hah hah hah hah hah!
“seriously, the whole PS-bashing business is tired”
Apparently not.
I live in Park Slope and rate the following conveyances in order of annoyance: planes, helicopters, trucks.
But this thread was worth it alone for the youTube video. Awesome gem! Clearly the people on the beach–watch how the red car stops directly under the flight path–go there for the experience. Makes me want to finally get out to Planeview Park–http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/Q393I/–or the five park properties known as Laguardia Landing Lights.
“Here come the helicopter — second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away…”
– http://bk.ly/bvC
Hi again parkedslope – Hater here. As a Park Slope resident, you are probably aware that 100% of park slopers fit into one of the following two categories. There are zero exceptions.
1. Glasses wearing superannuated hipster males with a testosterone deficit who cling desperately to the belief (shared only by other Park Slope males) that dressing like a 22 year old Williamsburg hipster while strolling their crotchfruit down 7th Avenue makes them something other than a balding middle aged parent desperately clinging on to the last dying shreds of youth.
2. Knee-jerk liberal females who went to private colleges in New England (or Sarah Lawrence) and force the males mentioned above to beg for their dignity.
Jackal
I’m not sure if i’m going to get a scolding for this or not – but the plane noise was one of the major reasons i decided not to move to park slope. i used to live in the heathrow flight path and it was intolerable – esp back when the concorde was still flying.