In May, a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River on Manhattan’s west side. The increase in airport-bound helicopters comes hard on the heels of a 10 June incident when a chopper pilot died after he crashed onto the roof of a Midtown skyscraper. Rich people get into the sky and avoid traffic, and the rest of us have to sit in the car and wait,” she added. I don’t think it will help a lot of the people. And next to another new signifier of urban opulence: the $25bn Hudson Yards high-rise complex of luxury shops, restaurants and apartments, part of a shifting skyline of ever-more towers inexorably rising “to give the wealthy a better view”. “I think it’s ridiculous,” said Kate Stack, 30, a theater worker, speaking to the Guardian in midtown Manhattan, near a heliport where business and tourist choppers buzz in and out. Another helicopter booking platform, Blade Urban Air Mobility, recently launched service between Manhattan’s three commercial heliports and the three area airports serving the Big Apple, LaGuardia, JFK and Newark, a whisker cheaper than the forthcoming Uber facility, at $195 a pop.īuzzing around in a chopper for work or play, against the iconic backdrop of skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty, has long been a symbol of prestige, prosperity and the frenetic pace of New York life in “the city that never sleeps”.īut while the new services will be seen as a badge of success by some, for others they symbolize the deep inequality in the heart of the city – and potential danger.
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