TESTIMONY
Christopher Woodgrin, Prospect Heights Resident, on Excessive Helicopter Noise Disrupting Life in the Neighborhood
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A Prospect Heights resident describes the severe disruption caused by frequent, loud helicopter noise in the area.
- The resident lives near the Barclays Center and has measured noise levels up to 100 decibels inside his apartment every 20 minutes.
- The excessive helicopter noise makes it difficult to sleep, converse on the roof, and enjoy days when it is not raining.
- While the resident is tolerant of typical city noises, the helicopter disturbance has become unbearable, especially over the past 6 months to a year.
- The resident, who works as a nurse, pleads for a solution to reduce the disruption for ordinary workers and residents.
Christopher Woodgrin
3:29:05
My name is Christopher Wegren.
3:29:07
I live in Park slow prospect heights about halfway between the Barclays Center And Grand Army Plaza right on Flatbush Avenue.
3:29:14
I think you guys were hanging out with us.
3:29:17
So so late today.
3:29:18
Yeah.
3:29:19
Okay.
3:29:22
I work as a registered nurse down at NYU Brooklyn Hospital.
3:29:26
I was the nurse in charge of the largest COVID unit in Brooklyn, down at NYU Brooklyn and some at Park.
3:29:32
Everybody came out at sunset and spanging their pots and pans together, and it was very sweet.
3:29:36
But now I'm asking for quiet.
3:29:38
Because the situation is just killing me lately.
3:29:42
I don't wanna be here.
3:29:43
I don't wanna be hanging out at a city council meeting all day.
3:29:48
You know, I've never sent a a dish back at a restaurant or written an angry letter to a business.
3:29:53
I'm pretty cool with noise too.
3:29:56
Cyren's fine police helicopters, traffic helicopters, fine horns.
3:30:02
You know, we live in New York.
3:30:03
This is okay.
3:30:04
This is a whole another animal, man.
3:30:06
I bought a little decibelometer.
3:30:08
It cost $20.
3:30:09
Very easy to measure.
3:30:10
Don't know why they were saying it wasn't.
3:30:13
Every 20 minutes, going up to a 100 decibutes 90 decibels inside the apartment.
3:30:18
That's like turning on a hairdryer or a blender every 20 minutes starting at 6 in the morning on Sundays sometime.
3:30:25
I'm just trying to get some sleep.
3:30:27
It's completely outrageous, and I don't know what to do.
3:30:31
You know, we used to enjoy going on the roof.
3:30:33
We on the roof anymore because we can't hear each other.
3:30:36
I'm happy now when it's a rainy, cloudy, stormy day because we get a little bit of a break from the helicopters.
3:30:42
How sad is that, you know, I I I just I don't know what changed.
3:30:46
It I've lived there for 10 years.
3:30:48
It didn't used to be that bad.
3:30:49
A couple years ago, it started getting bad.
3:30:51
And then just the last 6 months year, and now it's just horrible.
3:30:55
I don't know what all has changed, but I hope that we can do something to just help out people who have our feet on the ground and our ordinary workers and not the wealthy people who are getting out to the Hamptons and JFK.