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Community Board 11 to draft resolution backing CB7 effort to curb nonessential helicopter flights
Summary
At a Nov. 13, 2020 joint Health & Transportation committee meeting, board members heard a Stop the Chop presentation on banning nonessential helicopters and moved to craft a resolution modeled on Community Board 7’s action; the motion was seconded and staff will finalize wording for the full board.
A joint meeting of Community Board 11’s health and social services and transportation committees heard a presentation from Ken Coughlin of Stop the Chop on Nov. 13, 2020, and moved to draft a resolution urging limits on nonessential helicopter flights.
Coughlin, who said he represents the grassroots Stop the Chop coalition and is a member of Manhattan Community Board 7, described the group’s goal as banning commuter, sightseeing and charter helicopter operations in the New York metropolitan area. He mapped the main origins of those flights to three heliports — East 34th Street, the Downtown Manhattan Heliport and a West Side facility in Hudson River Park — and cited safety, noise and pollution concerns, including a recent…
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