CITYWIDE — THE HEAD OF STOP THE CHOP NY/NJ is renewing pressure on ... It would only ban nonessential (tourist and charter) flights. The Eagle regrets the errors.

This is not the case, Melissa Elstein, board chair and secretary of Stop the Chop told the Brooklyn Eagle. “311 does accept helicopter complaints about helicopters from NYC heliports,” she ...

Stop the chop — that's the slogan from a Brooklyn city councilmember who wants to ban tourists and the ultra-wealthy from hopping on helicopters that take off from New York City’s heliports.