Park Slope Residents Rally Against FAA

Maybe all of you making fun at people complaining about this should get off your high horses and, if only for a moment, consider that maybe these people are not totally insane, maybe there is something to what they are complaining about. Granted, some of of the complaints are over the top, and, granted too, there are much worse places than Park Slope when it comes to airplane noise. But, airplanes do fly over Park Slope, at low altitudes, and they fly almost every day, very often every 1 or 2 minutes, non-stop between 6 in the morning until usually way after midnight.

Plus, a small distance makes a huge difference. If airplanes fly a block from where you live, all you hear is the enchanting rumble of distant airplanes. If they fly 2 blocks away, then you don't hear anything at all. But, if they fly right above your roof, even if it is not loud enough to damage your hearing, it can be nerve-racking. I happen to live near the park, on a top floor, right under the flight path. Yes, there are much worse thing than this, but let me tell you, I'm not a whiner, but my living room on a Sunday afternoon, with planes flying above me every minute or two, all the time, does not really fulfill my idea of a relaxing weekend. I would bet all of you who dismiss this complaint as insane do not live right under any flight path. You may be near one, but not right under it.

And, yes, planes have to fly over somebody, but it doesn't have to be the same somebody all the freaking time.

To all the commenters with the "fuck Park Slope" mentality on here, thank you. Stupid yuppie fucking neighborhood. They are used to the quiet in Skokie, IL or Columbus, Ohio or wherever the fuck they are all from. But hey, once you've lived here more than 18 months you are automatically a New Yorker now right?

People have a right to protest noise pollution when it affects them. They're not being "whiners" or "NIMBY's" just because they care for their community. If low-altitude traffic has indeed gone up over 50%, that's a significant problem and it can have many adverse health effects.

I live there, I hear it, it's no big deal. I actually kind of like the planes.

Park Slope whiners and complainers how about shutting up.

No one wants to hear it anymore.

You bring your babies to bars yet you complain about airplanes making noise in the sky.

Please stop annoying people with this junk. There are real problems to deal with and your incessant complaining is not helping with your image. It is making you look worse.

I know you read this Park Slope.

Heed my words.

tasteless choice of photo.

they fly over us in bed-stuy, too

go fuck yourself park slope

Just think if you lived right next to Midway Airport in Chicago: Link

Midway has been there for 87 years, most of the surrounding neighborhood for 40+ years, and it's still a strong working class neighborhood. And people literally live across a 4-lane street from a runway. Imagine that.

Do these whiny infants need to get burped? Is that why they're so fussy?

I used to live on Beach 92 in Rockaway Beach. Let me know when the planes overhead are literally shaking your apartment. When the noise harshly wakes you up at 6am. When the noise is so loud it completely drowns out a conversation with someone right in front of you.

If none of that happens, move back to the sticks. Strangely enough, there's noise in NYC. GO FIG.

I was about to say. When you live near the airport, you know what plane noise is. Shut up, Park Slope.

Clearly the answer is to make these planes turn off their engines when approaching the Verrazano bridge and make a glide in approach. This would leave the Park Slope sleeping babies in carriages undisturbed.

Won't they need extra fuel for that?:)

We really should be doing high-speed maglev trains anyway. Darn near noiseless, much lower energy consumption. But of course, NIMBYists would never allow the tracks to be constructed in their neighborhood, so those aren't going to happen anytime soon.

"I have to play loud music in the house or otherwise I'll go insane"???? Dude I think you are the mayor of crazy town already. I'm ion the Slope all the time and they are only noticeable when you are paying attention to JUST the planes. Get on with your life.

Maybe so, but I just moved to the Slope from the SE corner of Williamsburg-and noise pollution wise it's like living in the country over here.

I used to live near an Air National Guard base - get back to me when C130s are circling the Slope daily.

Whew!! Bring back some memories for me:

C-130 rollin' down the strip

64 Rangers on a one-way trip

Mission Top Secret, destination unknown

Don't even know if they're coming home

When my plane gets up so high

Paratroopers take to the skies

Stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door

My knees got weak and I hit the floor

Jumpmaster picked me up with ease

Tossed my ass into the breeze

Well if I die on a Chinese hill

Take my watch or the commies will

But if I die in the Korean mud

Bury me there with a case of Bud

park slope complaining about planes. wow. seriously. come to astoria, woodside, howard beach, rockaway--and then complain about plane noise.

have your nanny's told you it's disruptive while watching your sleeping children?

These people are deranged.

A. A modern airliner makes very little noise when it's on approach to an airport. I live a mile from LGA and barely hear anything unless someone turns toward my house after taking off.

B. There's no way to avoid flying over some residential areas. None.

If you take a look at google maps, and draw an invisible line from one of the runways at LGA, you see that said line goes right over park slope (not to mention tons of other neighborhoods in brooklyn and queens).

So, if the planes are landing on that runway coming from the S/W, unless the laws of geometry are going to change, that's the way the planes are going to fly.

Funny how Gothamist will poke fun at Brooklyn groups with certain causes, yet rally behind others. How about just reporting without belittling?

Brooklyn has nothing to do with it. Certain causes are freakin' STOOPID!

How about you deserve to be belittled when even the tiny violins would laugh at your cause?

Does anyone check these posts before they go live?

Picture caption reads "TWA Flight crashes in the Slope, 1960."

The picture is clearly of a United aircraft. The link leads to a post clearly stating that a collision took place where the United Airlines flight came down in Park Slope and the TWA wreckage came down in Staten Island.

loltastically fail

Does anyone check these posts before they go live?

LOL

These fools will get their shorts in a bind over anything.

True words! I live in the Slope, and rarely hear any planes overhead. The occasional NYPD chopper... vert occasionally, like every few weeks. What do these idjits want? They should all move back to Cleveland, or wherever they come from.

I live on the top floor or a building in Windsor Terrace with outdoor space that's right over the flight path of the planes. They do fly by often, but the noise is only noticeable when I'm on the roof in the summer, and unnoticeable indoors during the winter.

While sure, it would be nice if it were abit quieter during the summer, it's not deafening by any stretch.

Once again, the wilting lillies of Park Slope raise up their whining sticks.

Yeah, not much of a big deal if you've lived in Flushing or other areas of Queens that border LGA or JFK. Now THOSE neighborhoods have it rough. When I grew up in Flushing the planes were so deafening that you had to stop conversations mid sentence and wait for the plane to clear. Oh and learning how to control the TV volume on the fly became second nature.

It's true, I used to live in the slope...planes do fly over about every 60 seconds, most of the day. That said, it's really not even noticeable at all unless you're laying in the park and paying attention (when I noticed it).