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Queens residents are crying foul over the constant airplane noise from a flight path out of LaGuardia Airport dubbed the “Tennis Climb” — which goes right over Bayside and downtown Flushing and is making residents’ lives hell.
The subsequent noise increase has been a stroke of bad luck for residents in Flushing, Bayside and Whitestone, who say they are getting as much as 18 hours of noise a day when commercial jets from LaGaurdia are going overhead.“We live our lives on a daily basis according to the FAA’s alarm clock,” Jena Lanzetta, the president of the Northwest Bayside Civic Association, wrote in an April letter to NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.
The noise around LaGuardia Airport can go as high as 81 db — as loud as a lawnmower — according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’sBut Bayside resident Janet McEneaney previously told The Post the PA is underplaying the noise level — as a monitoring instrument in her neighbor’s backyard hasThe flight path was created to have planes avoid flying over the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the US Open.
The agency also noted that several “voluntary actions” have been taken in response to local complaints, including the creation of anand a voluntary soundproofing program in collaboration with the FAA for nearby schools – but to Lanzetta, the root issue has yet to be addressed.
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