Queens Quiet Skies to Host Upcoming Discussions on Airplane Noise

Two members of a group founded last year to combat the ongoing airplane noise over northeast Queens will provide updates during several upcoming meetings.

And the group, known as Queens Quiet Skies, is also calling on local residents who have been disturbed by airplane noise to submit an email describing their experience that could be used in a documentary film on the matter.

For more than a year, Bayside and Douglaston residents have been complaining about constant noise over their communities after the Federal Aviation Administration initiated a new flight pattern out of LaGuardia Airport.

Earlier this year, state Sen. Tony Avella, D-Bayside, and state Assemblyman Edward Braunstein, D-Bayside, held a forum with the FAA and Community Board 11 recently voted in favor of calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation to fight airplane noise.

Janet McEneaney, a CB 11 member from Bayside who founded Queens Quiet Skies, and Bob Whitehair, a former pilot from Douglaston, will do a PowerPoint presentation on the steps being taken to halt the airplane noise during a Community District Education Council 26 meeting on Oct. 30.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in room B44A at M.S. 67, located at 51-60 Marathon Parkway in Little Neck.

"We'll help people understand what's happening and what they can do about it," McEneaney said. "And we'll tell them what we're doing to alleviate it."

Queens Quiet Skies will also hold discussions at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 17 at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, located on 73rd Avenue and 188th Street, and at 7:45 p.m. on Oct. 24 at Church on the Hill, located at 167-07 35th Ave. in Flushing.

McEneaney said local residents with stories they’d like to share on the airplane noise should email qqsnoise@aol.com.

Patrick Shen, a filmmaker, is working on a documentary on noise titled “In Pursuit of Silence.”

Residents should write an answer that is no more than 500 words on the topic of how the increased airplane noise has affected their lives. Emails should include the resident’s name and neighborhood.