Latest Articles Tagged "Helicopters"
A bill approved by the City Council on Thursday prohibits flights that don’t meet the strictest federal noise standards.
The bill would have banned nonessential helicopter flights from the West 30th Street heliport and would also have allowed people to sue for excessive noise caused by helicopters either on the ground or in the air.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the charter company deliberately exploited loopholes in FAA regulations.
Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Nydia Velázquez and Jerrold Nadler have introduced legislation at the federal level that would ban “non-essential” helicopter traffic in NYC.
It appears that heli-haters, like the NY Times, are (mostly) getting their way.
The flights operate every day of the week, all year long, between 8 and 10 hours daily.
New Jersey lawmakers are looking to put an end to tourist chopper tours, which they say are slowly deafening Earth-bound residents.
The Office of Emergency Management has announced that NYPD helicopters will conduct a flyover of Fifth Avenue and East 65th Street in honor of Ed Koch's memorial service.
Man asks Mayor Bloomberg to move the tourist helicopters so make noise over someone else's neighborhood.