TESTIMONY
Morris Pesin, Founder of Liberty State Park and President of Friends of Liberty State Park, on the Disruptive Impact of Non-Essential Helicopter Tours around the Statue of Liberty
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Morris Pesin, the founder of Liberty State Park and president of the Friends of Liberty State Park, testifies in strong support of banning non-essential helicopter tours around the Statue of Liberty and Liberty State Park.
- Liberty State Park is a major urban park visited by 5 million people annually, serving as an important resource for recreation and nature enjoyment.
- Non-essential helicopter tour companies continually violate agreements by flying around the Statue of Liberty and into prohibited airspace, causing disruptive noise.
- Pesin advocates for a ban on non-essential helicopter tours to address the noise disruption impacting park visitors and residents.
- He aligns with other speakers calling for a ban on non-essential helicopter tours to prioritize public interests over industry profits.
Morris Pesin
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No.
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Morris Pesson.
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The founder of Liberty State Park, and I'm the president of the friends of Liberty State Park.
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I expressed strong support for the crucial helicopter resolutions and builds.
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Liberty Park is 2000 feet behind Lady Liberty on the Jersey City Waterfront.
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It's a beautiful urban park.
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Where people engage in a multitude of obstruction, recreation, passive recreation, and nature enjoyment activities.
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Liberty Park is New Jersey Central Park.
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Is visited by five million people each year.
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The park is an emotional health and mental health of the resource.
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For people seeking a pastoral experience in this urban rain area that is so densely populated.
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These public, big damn helicopter tour companies constantly are violating the National Park Service Voluntary Agreement has limited in scope and unacceptable as that 2023 agreement was, and they continually fly around the statue and into the so called the void in stone.
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The only real solution is a band of nonessential helicopters.
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The friends were in full support of the powerful testimony of Stop the Shop and all the other amazing speakers today that made the no brainer case for banning on essential helicopters So please stand up for people on both sides of that river.
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If Lady Liberty was alive, she would urge you to pass these resolutions and bills, and Lady Liberty would be covering her ears every day and yelling at the publicly damn nonessential helicopters as millions of people do every day to shut the hell up and not come back.
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The public grid is clearly more important than helicopter industry profits.
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So thank you for considering taking this crucial action on behalf of urban residents in neighborhoods on both side of the Hudson and people using Liberty State Park and New York City Parks.
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Thank you very much.