Hi supporters, this is due by end of business day Friday, Feb. 11!

Please take this 15-minute survey “NYC Speaks” from the Mayor Adams' administration and add your thoughts/complaints regarding the helicopter problem and NYC heliports issues. Use this link: https://nycspeaks.org  

(NYC Speaks is a city-wide engagement initiative designed to ensure that New Yorkers are heard in close coordination with Mayor Adams’ administration.) 

Approximately 1/2 way through the NYC Speaks survey is the environment section, including a box where you can type in your specific views (see sample photo below screenshot from survey). 

Here is a sample script, but please personalize it to include your experiences!
"NYC must end the use of the three heliports (DMH, E. 34 St, & W. 30th Street) to tourist and commuter helicopter companies (end all their concession agreements). Mayor Adams and his administration should find more environmentally friendly uses for these heliports perhaps leaving one only for medical, governmental, and emergency uses. These heliports and the NYC-based helicopter traffic (departures and arrivals) pollute our skies, create harmful noise pollution, increase carbon emissions, and create unnecessary health, safety and security risks. The commuter helicopters fly low and roar over environmental justice communities just so the wealthy and privileged can arrive to the airports faster than the average New Yorker or so they can vacation in the Hamptons. Tourists do not need to inflict noise pollution suffering nor air pollution over New Yorkers by flying from Downtown Manhattan Heliport. They can view NYC from above at the plethora of local observation decks. These tourist and commuter helicopters create unnecessary pollution, are dangerous over our densely populated city, ruin the peace of our public parks, and destroy our quality of life. They are enormously unpopular with all but the .1 percent who use them. We must prioritize public transportation improvements, the health and well being of the many over the travel convenience for the few, and the air quality over NYC. Low income and marginalized communities already suffer higher asthma rates than other NYC communities - to allow nonessential helicopters that are being used by the very wealthy and transient tourists to the detriment of our communities is the epitome of allowing climate change sacrifice zones. See also www.stopthechopnynj.org "

Thanks for your help! 
Best, 
Melissa Elstein, Chair
Stop the Chop NY/NJ Board 

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