Goldfeder Secures Additional Flight Path Noise Monitors in Bayswater and Broad Channel

Assemblyman Goldfeder Fights for Quieter Skies

After push from Goldfeder, PANYNJ to install additional noise monitors under active flight paths in Bayswater and Broad Channel Communities    

Goldfeder: With new technology upgrades and noise mitigation techniques, residents living within close proximity to the airport should be provided much-needed relief 

Broad Channel, Queens - In effort to accurately monitor noise caused by planes flying to and from JFK Airport, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway) has successfully worked with the Port Authority and has secured additional noise monitors in Bayswater and Broad Channel, Queens.

“While we understand our close proximity to the airport comes with certain challenges, new technology upgrades and noise mitigation techniques can allow our families to sleep more peacefully at night,” said Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder.“Installing these noise monitors will go a long way to accurately monitor noise impact on local communities and hopefully lead to relief for our hard-working families.”

In September, Goldfeder sent a letter to the FAA and Port Authority of NY and NJ requesting the installation of airplane noise monitors in Bayswater and Broad Channel, Queens. In his letter, Goldfeder expressed that frequent flyovers from arriving and departing airplanes generate high levels of noise and negatively impact the quality of life for thousands of Queens families. In response to Goldfeder’s request, the Port Authority immediately agreed to install the noise monitors, as well as implement a flight tracking system on the agency’s website so residents can monitor aircraft and specific decibel levels along flight paths over these communities.

“This monitor will provide accurate levels of airplane noise that residents are exposed to,” said Marilyn Chapoteau, Rockaway resident. “This information will be a useful tool in the fight to reduce airplane noise in our community.”

"The Broad Channel Civic Association wants to thank Assemblyman Goldfeder for his assistance in working to procure a Port Authority Airplane Noise Monitor for placement in Broad Channel.  This monitor will record all airplane noise that our island residents experience and will be critical as the Port Authority conduct their part 150 noise study,” said Dan Mundy, President of the Broad Channel Civic Association.  “Broad Channel is the only neighborhood that is adjacent to the airport that does not currently have such a monitor and both the Assemblyman and the Port Authority should be commended for moving quickly to address the town’s concerns regarding this oversight. We look forward to working with our elected officials and the Port Authority, as well as our neighbors on the developing airport roundtable panel to seek ways to reduce the impact of airplane flight noise on affected communities"

Additionally, at the direction of Governor Cuomo and in response to roundtable meetings with Goldfeder, other elected officials and community leaders, the Port Authority has recently signed an agreement with Environmental Science Associates to conduct federal Part 150 airport noise compatibility planning studies for John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia airports over the next three years, with the goal of finding potential mitigation procedures to help alleviate residents’ concerns about aircraft noise. The airport noise compatibility planning studies for LaGuardia and JFK are part of Port Authority efforts this year to address the noise concerns of residents in Queens, Brooklyn and Nassau County who live in close proximity to the two major airports.

“We are all expected to be good neighbors and our airports are no different,” concluded Assemblyman Goldfeder. “I want to thank the Port Authority for working together with the community to ensure our families are protected from any long-term harm that air traffic may potentially cause.