Kings County Brooklyn

We, the citizens of Kings County Brooklyn are petitioning the FAA and the Port Authority to consider Kings County Brooklyn citizens concerns as well as the aviation industry and airline travelers. In the last year, Park Slope Brooklyn residents have seen an increase in air traffic over our neighborhood. We have since learned that residents of Westchester and Connecticut have successfully persuaded your organizations to decrease and reroute traffic from their neighborhoods over our neighborhoods. In addition, your guidelines in this document regarding the times for the slots to be between 6AM an 9:59 PM are being flagrantly ignored. This traffic can be tracked, as you know, on a web site that shows flight patterns along with plane's origins and altitude and the time of the day. Consistently, we find 1 plane per minute--and more--over our neighborhood in unequal rotation patterns, often as early as 6AM and, typically, until midnight! Trying to sleep is an exercise in futility. It is impossible any longer to sit outdoors. Our windows are covered with black refuse from jet fuel. And these planes are flying almost directly over Methodist Hospital and many schools. Both noise--for which I believe there are federal regulation requiring nose mutation over schools and hospitals--and air pollution are threatening both our health and Quality of Life. We have found that even when the landing strips are alternated, the planes continue to follow a flight pattern directly over our neighborhoods in unequal proportion to possible flight patterns over Westchester and Connecticut. Moreover, when flying over our neighborhoods, the flight pattern is tilted overwhelmingly to a pattern going directly over 8th Avenue and Prospect Park West in Park Slope Brooklyn when they could be alternating over Prospect Park itself, the Hudson River, Prospect Park Expressway (noisy anwyay) and other Avenues, for example 4th Avenues through 7th Avenues, as well as WestChester and Connecticut. We understand the need to address flight congestion and the limitations of LaGuardia airport. We are merely asking that residents needs be taken into consideration and that equitably distributed flight patterns are enforced along with limiting flights to the hours between 6AM and 9:59PM as specified in your documents.