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Jason Eric, Downtown Brooklyn Resident on Noise Pollution from Helicopters Along the Brooklyn Waterfront

3:13:40

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Jason Eric, a Downtown Brooklyn resident not affiliated with any organization, criticizes the noise pollution caused by helicopters along the Brooklyn Waterfront.

  • He expresses confusion over allowing such noise to mar the area's successful urban development.
  • Eric accuses the NYC Economic Development Corporation and the Merrill Administration of obstructing reforms to address the helicopter noise issue.
  • He refutes the claim by the Department of Environmental Protection that noise monitoring technology does not exist, offering to provide information about vendors supplying such technology.
  • Eric argues that New Yorkers should not have to tolerate the helicopter noise and that politicians' stances on this issue will be noticed by residents.
Jason Eric
3:13:40
Okay.
3:13:42
My name is Jason Eric, and I'm not affiliated with a particular organization, though I appreciate their advocacy that I've seen here, as well as the council's leadership on this issue.
3:13:52
I'm simply a resident of Downtown Brooklyn, who has seen the incredible development of the Brooklyn Waterfront over the last 15 years.
3:14:00
So it's a mystery to me that the city would allow this triumph urban planning to be marred with near constant noise pollution.
3:14:08
It's also a mystery to me that the EDC and Merrill Administration is so transparently obstructionist to reform.
3:14:17
The DEPE representative's assertion that noise monitoring technology does not exist can be disproven with a 1 minute Google search.
3:14:24
And I can send along other vendors that supply this technology if the council would like.
3:14:29
I guess their attitude can be summed up as New Yorkers can and will put up with it they do every day.
3:14:36
So why shouldn't they put up with this?
3:14:38
But the simple matter the fact of the matter is we shouldn't have to.
3:14:44
What is happening is not right, and it's not fair.
3:14:47
And New Yorkers will notice where their politicians stand on this issue.
3:14:53
Thanks again for the council's leadership.
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