We previously noted that three Congressional Representatives, including Nydia Velazquez, who represents Brooklyn Heights, co-sponsored a bill introduced in Congress that would effectively ban all non-essential helicopter flights, including tourist and commuter flights, over all boroughs of New York City. AM New York reports that these same Representatives, along with three others, all from the New York City area, have written to Mayor Bill de Blasio asking him to ban such non-essential flights
because of the risk to New Yorkers’ quality of life, health and safety, saying they’d already written to him about the impact of helicopters several times over the course of his administration.
The AM New York story also notes that these Representatives had earlier written to the Federal Aviation Administration, asking it to use its authority to ban such flights.
