Stop The Chop is a grassroots organization formed to reduce helicopter noise and ban nonessential flights over NYC, the NY Metropolitan Area and NJ, due to the noise, environmental, and quality of life impacts.
Information and maps about constant commuter/charter helicopter traffic over Brooklyn, including many environmental justice communities
Non-essential (commuter & charter) helicopters pass over many Brooklyn neighborhoods multiple times every day. If you are a Brooklyn resident and suffer from regular helicopter overflights and associated noise, it is very likely these flights are commuter flights, usually to/from JFK airport and Manhattan. The vast majority of the time they are not police, medical, etc. These maps tell the tale of ‘’two cities” – the wealthy, privileged few utilizing one of the most polluting forms of transportation over communities already disproportionately experiencing high rates of diseases, such as asthma, that are worsened by the air pollution produced by helicopters.
While tourist helicopter flights originating in NYC are subject to at least some barely minimal regulation which bars them from, among other things, flying directly over land, commuter flights are currently subject to NO meaningful regulation; operators are free to fly pretty much wherever they wish, and as shown below, virtually their entire flightpaths are over environmental justice communities. The good news is that a significant number of NYC elected officials support legislation that will bring a measure of environmental justice to NYC’s communities.
At this time most of these flights are operated by Blade, a commuter helicopter service – many of the maps below show a helicopter with tail N92N, a confirmed Blade-contracted helicopter. N69F and N38BL are other tail numbers known to be used by Blade.
A single commuter helicopter taking passengers to/from the West 30th Street Heliport and JFK airport flying over BrooklynCommuter helicopter passing back and forth over north BrooklynCommuter helicopter taking passengers from JFK to the West 30th Street Heliport over East New York Commuter helicopter taking passengers from the West 30th Street Heliport to JFK over East New YorkCommuter helicopter taking passengers from the Hamptons to Manhattan flying over Flatbush Ave in FlatlandsCommuter helicopter taking passengers from the West 30th Street Heliport to JFK over BrownsvilleCommuter helicopters taking passengers from Manhattan to the Hamptons flying over Flatbush Ave in FlatbushCommuter helicopter taking passengers from Manhattan to the Hamptons flying over Flatbush Ave in the neighborhood of FlatbushCommuter helicopter taking passengers from Manhattan to the Hamptons flying near Flatbush Ave in MidwoodCommuter helicopter taking passengers from the Hamptons to Manhattan flying over Flatbush AveCommuter helicopter taking passengers from the West 30th Street Heliport to JFK taking a detour in Crown Heights Commuter helicopter taking passengers from the West 30th Street Heliport to JFK taking a detour in Crown HeightsCommuter helicopter taking passengers from the West 30th Street Heliport to JFK flying over Brooklyn Botanic GardenCommuter helicopter taking passengers from Manhattan to the Hamptons flying over Prospect Park, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, South Slope, Windsor Terrace, and KensingtonCommuter helicopters taking passenger from JFK and Long Island to Manhattan Heliports over Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Park Slope, and Carroll GardensCommuter helicopters taking passengers from the West 30th Street Heliport to the Hamptons flying over Brooklyn and Long Island
