Commerical Airplane flying over Prospect Park
Wanted to know what can be done if anything about all of the commercial planes flying over Prospect Park West? They are extremely loud.
Wanted to know what can be done if anything about all of the commercial planes flying over Prospect Park West? They are extremely loud.
Most people seem to miss the point here. No one is asking that the planes fly over other neighborhoods. The people who are fighting this, for example, http://AirTrafficParkSlope.org, make the point that this INCREASE in air traffic is a result of the FAA redesign of the air space that took effect July 31, 2008. You may have noticed that since that date, 85% of the traffic into LGA is flying over Park Slope. Before this date, the air traffic was fairly rotated over WestChester and Rockland counties as well as Connecticut and Long Island. This increased air traffic has been redirected down from activist communities in these communities. Senator Dodd of Connecticut has threatened to cut the FAA funding over complaints from his constituents. Would that Senators Schumer or Clinton be so inclined. In any case, if you want to help fight this, sign the petition at http://AirTrafficParkSlope.org and/or contact them to help fight for a more fair rotation pattern.
Go to any public meeting of a community board and you’ll hear at least one person griping about aircraft noise so, no, I don’t think it was a troll. Hell, they even gripe about loud fish down here in Bay Ridge:
http://www.brooklynrowhouse.com/node/98
I think this post was a joke and you all bit. Otherwise this person is a complete presumptuous boob, what next, the traffic and buses? the garbage trucks? close all the bars and restaurants at 8pm? This is fucking NYC, it took us centuries to get rid of those damn crickets.
I can’t help myself…
I’m just so curious as to what the other “couple of different issues” were that Ed Towns’ office had to assist you with.
Do tell…
“Hello”
“Hi, I’m calling about the noise that the planes overhead make.”
“Yes?”
“Is there anything that Ed can do about this?”
click
Whahhh….Whahhhh!
“Ed Towns’ office is very interested in where planes fly” “I’ve called the one on Court St about a couple of different issues over the years and found them very responsive.”
God help the poor people who work in that office!
If you can’t take the noise of living in the city. Quit whining and move.
Ridiculous!
Bxgirl: that’s exactly what it is, or as someone else said, Not In My Air Space. Here in Bay Ridge I live about a quarter mile from the (IIRC) R-221 approach vector to LGA. But winds aloft often bring those planes directly over me. I just tell myself it could be worse. I could live in Howard Beach.
I also have the NYPD heliport three blocks away so I have very loud Bell 412s under full power zooming about 150 feet over my house after they refuel. Fortunately, I dig helicopters.
ifss- and the only solution is to make it another neighborhood’s problem. that’s what rerouting will do, and while yuo may not care, the rest of us do. Its a fact of modern day life.
And I speak from experience- I live under a flight path now, and also growing up in the Bronx.(We also lived above the rail yards, a circumstance known in my family as “the Great Congruence.” We dealt with it. You’d be surprised at how well people can cope. You seem to think planes are like cars, “but it’s easier for them to go at an angle over dense residential so they were taking the short cut.”
But I am sure you want airports conveniently located, and access to flights when you need them, because as we all know sitting in the airport for hours is not fun. So complaining about the noise begs the question- what’s the solution? rerouting is no answer because there are many reasons why it is difficult if not impossible. And again, rerouting just makes it someone else’s problem. Maybe we should just stop all flights and raze the airports? Become Luddites?
This makes me embarrassed to be a Park Sloper. Come on, people, stop giving the snarks such good material!
— double-wide-pushing park slope mom who is already defensive about all the stereotypes and hates when they’re proven true