Mayor Bloomberg taped using heliport during curfew
Last edited Thu May 24, 2012, 05:34 PM - Edit history (1)
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Fed up with the Mayor using the East 34th Street Heliport on weekends when it's closed, Ron Sticco started documenting it.
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Nearby residents, like the Sticcos, fought for years to get the noisy, fume-choking heliport closed on weekends and weeknights. The court-imposed curfew has been in place for more than a decade.
"He's being a little bit hypocritical. If you're concerned about the quality of life of the citizen in this city, like don't smoke a cigarette in Central Park, then don't land a two thousand pound helicopter in front of my apartment with the choking exhaust and intolerable noise when it's closed," added Sticco.
In the last six months, Sticco and his wife have recorded the Mayor's helicopter landing or taking off from heliport during curfew 16 times.
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The Mayor insists the heliport is in fact open on the weekends, contrary to FAA information that is available on websites. Even the heliport's own chart given to pilots shows it is clearly closed, something Mayor Bloomberg, as a pilot should know.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=8673085
The best part of this story is the video. I have to say that if you choose to live in front of a heliport you don't have much right to complain about "choking exhaust and intolerable noise", but Bloomberg should follow the law.
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