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NYC Council passes bills to crack down on helicopter tours, add new gender option to city documents
NY Post ^ | 04/24/2025 | Hannah Fierick

Posted on 04/25/2025 8:06:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The City Council passed a slew of bills Thursday — including one that would ban noisy non-essential helicopter flights from city heliports following the horrific crash in the Hudson that killed a family of tourists and another to add a new gender ID to city documents.

The two bills easily passed the Democratic-majority council but still need Mayor Eric Adams’ signature to become laws.

A proposal aimed at cracking down on tour and commuter helicopters passed near unanimously — just two weeks after a couple and their three young kids visiting from Spain and a Navy veteran pilot all died when their chopper broke apart and plunged into the Hudson River.

Intro 26-A would prohibit such “non-essential” choppers that fail to meet FAA noise standards from using two city heliports at East 34th Street and Wall Street, beginning in late 2029.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bills; city; council; crack; documents; down; gender; helicopters; new; nyc; option; passes; tours

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What priorities. Idiots.
1 posted on 04/25/2025 8:06:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What? They missed an opportunity to add the most important requirement:

▶︎ crack down on helicopter tours
▶︎ add new gender option to city documents
▶︎ add new gender requirements for helicopter pilots


2 posted on 04/25/2025 8:10:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

perfect!


3 posted on 04/25/2025 8:10:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Still waiting for Kingon to be added to ethnicity options.


4 posted on 04/25/2025 8:11:36 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t be fooled.

Deep State’s frontmen are stupid.

The people hiding behind them are not.


5 posted on 04/25/2025 8:12:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

One step forward, and two (or three?) steps backwards.


6 posted on 04/25/2025 8:13:49 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So The Gods of New Yawk have come up with another “gender”. How wonderful.


7 posted on 04/25/2025 8:16:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Why are the DemonRATS so afraid of a Department of GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So destroy an industry. ✅

Continue to enable gender/genitalia fantasies. ✅

8 posted on 04/25/2025 8:17:01 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There are over 50 gender identities discovered so far. I don’t know what they are, so I will be sent to reeducation camp someday.


9 posted on 04/25/2025 8:21:31 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only two weeks out and with the cause of the helicopter crash into the Hudson River still under investigation by the NTSB and the FAA...we MUST pass laws!!!


10 posted on 04/25/2025 8:22:18 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The City Council passed a slew of bills Thursday — including one that would ban noisy non-essential helicopter flights from city heliports

I assume that it's "essential" that politicians, government bureaucrats, and politically well-connected CEOs and celebrities continue to take helicopter rides.

And that the skies be cleared of middle class riffraff.

11 posted on 04/25/2025 8:23:00 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What happens if you change your mind about your gender later? Is the document no longer valid? Is it fraud?

EC


12 posted on 04/25/2025 8:46:37 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another reason stipulated in the bill was that one helicopter tour company, Mi General Pinochet Helicopter Tours, was witnessed dropping known Communist tourists into the East River.


13 posted on 04/25/2025 8:50:34 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“ Meanwhile, Intro 246-A, which would add the gender “X” to city documents, where such information is requested, passed despite conservative backlash.”

If they added a “Y” as well, I wouldn’t have any problem with it.


14 posted on 04/25/2025 9:03:39 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I included golden retriever on crystal meth as a gender.


15 posted on 04/25/2025 9:14:19 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I would be tempted to write “NOYB”

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

That is the answer I put on 99% of the 2000 Census long form.

GOT A NASTY GRAM & A DEMAND TO FILL OUT THE WHOLE FORM. THAT form is somewhere in my files.


16 posted on 04/25/2025 10:20:05 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The proper name for this group should be The Communist Council of the City of New York. It has been that way for years.


17 posted on 04/25/2025 10:34:44 AM PDT by CdMGuy
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