Jackson Heights Life

There are two places you can look for runway maintenance and closure updates:

http://www.adcnynj.org/AirportUpdates.html
http://www.panynj.gov/CommutingTravel/airports/html/lg_construction.html

The Aviation Development Council, which runs the first website, also notifies Community Board 3 about upcoming runway closures that may create noise conditions in the neighborhood.  CB3 used to pass on these announcements to community members via a notification list (http://www.cb3qn.nyc.gov/?p=33087), but that doesn't seem to be active anymore.

I do not  think you will be able to get this kind of notification from LGA as they change their arrival/departures patters based on many factors.  To me, the question is why planes are lending over residential area? It creates  air pollution, noise and  more importantly safety hazard.  Should be address by district office.

it's probably a good day to go airplane watching

 :rockon:

heck, since we have perfectly good subways and buses, just ban vehicular traffic altogether. i wouldn't miss the car stereos and the red light running bozos.  :police:

but seriously, the plane noise issue is so so so so much less of a problem now as it was in the late '90s. i recall one or two summers where runway construction brought takeoffs overhead from six am saturday until late night sunday every single weekend.

Dear v70cat,

I usually won't engage in arguments online, but since I was just called out for a comment I made back in March, I felt I needed to reply. Thanks for providing the link to the history of LaGuardia Airport, as the wikipedia article will help me illustrate the point I was trying to make 9 months ago.

You are quite correct, LaGaurdia Airport was built well before I was born in 1966. But as the section of the wikipedia article subtitled "Later Development" points out, LGA is too small, too busy, and its runways are too short by modern standards for a commercial airport located in the heart of a metropolitan area. If you continue reading the next section, entitled "Accidents and Incidents" you will note that in my lifetime, there have been FOUR major accidents, ALL of which occurred on TAKEOFFS from the airport, the most recent of which was US Airways Flight 1549 back in January.

My posting back in March was not a complaint so much about airplane noise, but about the wisdom of using runway 4/22 for takeoffs over the densely-populated neighborhoods of Woodside, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, as opposed to the other direction, if possible. And how dare you have the nerve to criticize my comment AND then ask for construction to be delayed until 9AM on weekends! (Which emoticon is most appropriate for "hypocrisy"?)  :coolsmiley:

I apologize if the tone of my earlier reply was a bit nasty, but I said nothing in my original post about wanting LGA closed. In fact, in another thread I reminisced about spending many a Saturday during my childhood watching the takeoffs and landings from the observation deck at LaGuardia. And I love the fact that now I can jump on the Q33 and be at the airport in about 12 minutes. For the record, I was raised in Woodside and attended both P.S. 11 and St. Sebastian's, so I am quite used to the sound of commercial airliners passing overhead every few minutes. And while I may have only moved to Jackson Heights two years years ago, my cooperative apartment was built a dozen years BEFORE the airfield that would eventually become LaGuardia Airport, and therefore -- technically, my home WAS here first!

Now to get serious for a moment... there's nothing I can do about how you feel regarding the "entitled" newcomers to Jackson Heights, but trust me, as someone who has lived in other parts of this city, JH has one heckuva LONG way to go before it becomes "gentrified." We'd all be well advised to be a little more respectful to one another and not start accusing people of being elitists or racists because they express a certain opinion about street vendors or trash collection, the local homeless, or even about the types of business establishments they currently patronize or would like to see in the future. Given the current economic outlook for our city and state, we'd all be better off working with each other than at cross purposes. End of sermon.  :angel:

Anyone else notice this morning that there was a flight path change bringing departing planes right over the historic district?


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