TESTIMONY
Judy Mann, Volunteer Tour Guide on the Impact of Tourist Helicopter Noise on Governors Island
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The volunteer tour guide explains the stark difference in noise levels on Governors Island on Sundays when there are no tourist helicopter flights from Lower Manhattan.
- Without helicopter noise on Sundays, normal conversations and bird sounds can be heard on the island.
- Working as a tour guide on Saturdays is intolerable due to the constant, war-zone like helicopter noise.
- An international tourist questioned how New Yorkers can tolerate living with such excessive helicopter noise.
- The noise undermines New York City's efforts to make Governors Island an attractive destination.
Judy Mann
3:32:58
Hi.
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I'm Judy Mann.
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I'm a volunteer tour guide on Governors Island, and I have the privilege of working with tour to come to the island from all parts of the country, all five boroughs, and all over the world.
3:33:09
I was gonna tell you a lot about the island and how wonderful it is.
3:33:12
You know all that.
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And there's really nothing much to say except there's just two things.
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There's real difference on Sundays on on Governors Island when there aren't tourist helicopters taking off from Lower Manhattan.
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I mean, it's radical.
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I used to work always on Saturdays.
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I've stopped working on Saturdays.
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It is intolerable because of the unending, unremitting war zone that we live in.
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But Sundays are different.
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You can actually have a conversation with people We can hear the birds.
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It's it it will make a difference if you can eliminate the tourist helicopters.
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And I'll just conclude with something that one of my one of the international tourists said to me, which was how can you possibly bear it here?
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You know, which is the last thing you want people to think about, an island the city is investing an enormous amount in to make it into just this extraordinarily luscious place.
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So thank you so much for the work and for your endurance.
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And you do a great job.
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Thank you very much.