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.
How about building a new airport out over the ocean – then when you land you can get a boat to Manhattan or Red Hook and then continue your journey from there?
Exactly. The complaint from these people isn’t that planes are flying over Brooklyn, but that planes are flying over Park Slope. Where the people have more privileges. To ask for the flight paths to be moved simply means asking them to send the plans over some other neighborhood. I understand hating the sound of planes and this stinks for people, but I’d hardly proudly proclaim in public I want to torture another neighborhood so I’m more at peace. What’s with that? That’s something a wealthy Republican town in South Florida where my parents retired would do. Not a supposedly liberal enclave in Brooklyn, NYC.
Dave- so not true. They can route them over the armory here in Crown heights so the passengers can wave to all the homeless.
I want to protest the sirens from fire trucks- why can’t they go to a fire quietly?
And why must I suffer with hot pavement in the summer? Why doesn’t the government put cooling fans on every street?
Seriously- where do these people think the planes should be rerouted to? Oh, let me guess- over some other neighborhood. For the record I am under a flight path too, and close to the LIRR which I hear all the time. It’s not a big deal. On the other hand, there are people in Queens who really have a problem with airplane noise. And shockingly enough, they cope.
Maybe if you ask nicely they’ll tell the airplanes to cut their engines over Bay Ridge and coast in.
vinca…i wouldn’t have believed that site existed if I hadn’t viewed it with my own eyes!!! So much time and effort put into such a ridiculous effort where anyone with an once of sanity knows that nothing will ever come of it.
Mr. B…please add emoticons….Where’s that “Loser” one with the fingers making the “L” when you need it???
The photos shown on the Prospect Park Quality of Life Committee sight are HYSTERICAL showing the planes like UFO sightings!
I’d heard the talk but never knew they really existed! Thank goodness they provided proof that airplane travel is real and not just some hooey some person on the inter-web made up!
Get a grip people (or at least a hobby).
Have you tried yelling out the window and shaking your fist at them?
FWIW- One fine windy day I noticed a kite flying very very high over Prospect Park, in fact the kite was so high it almost unrecognizable as a kite. I thought that a plane was going to hit it. For the rest of the afternoon (as long as the kite was flying) the planes steered clear of Prospect Park.
This is not the quality of life issue for me that is for others. However, see the link below for people in Prospect Park neighborhoods who are already working on this:
http://www.bbparkslope.com/psqol