The LaGuardia Airport committee meeting at the Adria Hotel in Bayside on Jan. 25 brought one civic leader’s report that the Federal Aviation Administration may have overlooked rules pertaining to historic districts when creating flight patterns over northeast Queens.
Maria Becce, retired vice president of the Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Association and current member, said she had corresponded with officials in Washington about a 1966 law protecting historic places and Native American reservations from environmental impacts of airplane noise.
The Broadway-Flushing Historic District, established in 2006, protects the integrity of about 1,300 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places that have stood for more than a century. The neighborhood now sits below the NextGen flight pattern, enacted in 2012, particularly the TNNIS climb for commercial aircraft departing from LaGuardia.
According to a letter issued in November from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, part of the Office of Federal Agency Programs, to Katherine Andrus, the FAA’s federal preservation officer, stating the agency had issued a categorical exclusion, or CATEX, under the Historic Preservation Act which the FAA seemed to falsely believe gave it immunity from complying with Section 106, which calls for additional studies pertaining to historic districts, the letter stated.
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I live in bayside and I dont hear much airplane noise at all. So I am not sure what all these people are talking about.
Folks if you are concerned about noise from LGA now, we need to come together and fight the closure of rikers island.
If you look at the plans for Rikers after it closes, one thing being pushed is the addition of another runway. This will be disasterous for Queens in the terms of increased plane noise.
Every civic, politician, and resident of Queens needs to pay attention to this and come together and fight back. There's not much that we are going to be able to do for the current noise (the airport is already there, we are not going to close it or reduce the operating hours) but we can stop the noise and negative effects in the future if we fight back.
ALL residential neighborhoods should be considered when determining flight paths - regardless of landmark status (or income)!
Those Bayside Douglaston privileged dopes think that their shit is sorbet! Your day will come!
So historic districts should get special treatment and the rest of us should get extra noise?
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Those Bayside Douglaston privileged dopes think that their shit is sorbet! Your day will come!
I am from bayside and I AM FAR from privileged! I come from a father who was born into poverty and I was raised in Bayside in late 70s. Bayside back then was FAR different than what it is now. So not all of us are "privileged".
Please watch this short video on YouTube to get a better understanding about the issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHhADSFQ1MY
Janet McEneaney from Queens Quite Skies will explain in great detail what the FAA is doing to the quality of life to Queens residents.
"I live in bayside and I dont hear much airplane noise at all. So I am not sure what all these people are talking about."
The vast majority of Baysiders are concerned about noise. Consult with Braunstein or Avella's office and see how many complaints and threats of moving out they recieve. The reason is the FAA's TNNIS Climb introduced in 2012.
"Folks if you are concerned about noise from LGA now, we need to come together and fight the closure of rikers island."
This is true, and I'm hopeful that it is possible.
"So historic districts should get special treatment and the rest of us should get extra noise?"
The historic district sits adjacent to a very low income area in Flushing. The TNNIS route traverses both a hsitoric district a low income area, as well as Bay Terrace, Auburndale, downtown, Murray Hill and a bit of Fresh Meadows. She/he is fighting for everything, using the historic district as a tool.
Truck noise releases asbestos from plaster which was one htird asbestos from 1920-1980. Before that it had straw or horse hair. I have plenty of friends who grew up in 1920s houses in neighborhoods that suddenly became busy and in their fifties, they developed lung problems.
I'm "impressed". So, you're one of the non-privileged Baysiders. LIL! Tell us another one.
If the FAA can destroy the quality of life of people with terrible Jet noise and air pollution and get away with it what makes you think they will stop ? Other neighborhoods will soon be affected with the new flight patterns using NextGen gps technology !
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