THEY’VE HAD IT WITH HELICOPTERS

Each weekend, writer Sam Leff hears the buzzing of helicopters flying over his house and areas of the park where he walks and bikes. One afternoon, he saw two within five minutes in the West 70s.

“Particularly in the last number of months, there seems to be an extreme increase in the number of helicopters,” he said. “They fly very low, with a high noise level. If I’m in the middle of writing a sentence it totally destroys my concentration.”

While neighborhood residents, inured to the kinds of sounds Read more