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 go to this site all the time. The links to the airplanes have “planform” views (ie from below). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_aircraft
oh don’t worry it’s only a matter of time till the yuppies of park slope start complaining about this shit. god forbid they hear a plane go overhead every now and then. wouldn’t be surprised if they contact the NTSB to reroute the flight path.
This same piece was on Gothamist yesterday and the complaining Park Slopers got thoroughly roasted by the commenters. Since they’re also getting roasted on here, I think its official that if you think airplane noise is an issue in Park Slope (and for the record, I lived on the top floor on PPW, and I always thought watching the planes line up was cool) — you are officially nuts.
Articles like this are also annoying because you can always find a few people that love to complain and have no problem giving you outrageous quotes on any number of inane topics.
Wake me when the planes are strafing the named streets.
Until then, dear PS, STFU.
Thanks you and have a delightful day.
I love watching the airplanes fly overhead. Sometimes I sit in my back yard and look up and identify the planes (hard to do when all you have is a view from below): A lot of A-320s, some 737s, more and more E-170s and CRJs. I wish the air traffic from JFK would fly over Park Slope. The long-haul planes are so much cooler.
The sensitive little prancing NIMBYs who can’t take a few extra decibals need a good solid punch in the nuts. They won’t mind the noise so much when they are doubled over trying not to barf.
JFK traffic is much louder. Are there a bunch NIMBYs in the JFK flightpath who blog about how the noise interrupts their Yoga? Serious question.
I think the issue is that the flight paths used to be spread out and now have been more concentrated over one corridor. Any neighborhood’s residents would likely “whine” about this if the traffic were directed over them.
I only notice the planes when I am in the park. I mentioned it to a friend who claimed they now fly lower because planes have to fly a certain distance above the highest building and with the WTC gone that altitude dropped. I know, sounds crazy but he swore it was true.
Does anybody remember when the fighter planes circled around the city after 9/11 — the only planes up there going in big, fast circles.
omg fsrg, take a chill pill. what are you saying? white trash / ghetto types CANT live in park slope? newflash, they can! do ALL gay men have to be fancy-schmancie nancies? stop projecting played out stereotypes. and yes, it’s a digital converter box. that i purchases when the gubment was giving out the vouchers because the people who use the digital converter boxes and antennae tv usually cant afford cable (there there is cable in the living room, just too lazy to run a wire into the bedroom).
*rob*
Rob – you are so far from Ghetto is it embarrassing every time you make such references – just a reminder you are a gay man living in PS – but if you dont want to tell me thats fine – I have a feeling you are simply misnaming a digital antenna anyway.