NY's East Hampton grapples with problem of airport noise
More than 25,000 complaints in 2014 about helicopters, private jets landing, taking off
East Hampton, New York
FRANK Dalene never put the sign on the roof, the big no-trespassing sign that he wanted helicopter pilots approaching the East Hampton airport to read if they circled too low over his house.
Fed up with walls that shuddered and shook, and conversations that were drowned out by the thunder of helicopter engines, he had a yellow-and-black sign in mind that would read, "If you are below 700 feet, you are trespassing on my property." Now, he said, the sign had become unnecessary, because four of the five members of the town board promised not to apply for any more federal grants for the airport.
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