KEARNY - Come to Congressman Steven Rothman's (D-Fairlawn) "Listening Session," at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 24 at Kearny Town Hall, 402 Kearny Avenue, to air your concerns on the 5-acre Newark Heliplex proposal.
The $10 million project, across the river from Stevenson Place and Passaic Avenue, will bring a mini-airport with 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operations.
Talk about more noise and fumes from low flying copters crossing Rt. 21 and McCarter Highway and heading this way!
Mayor Albertos Santos, the town coucil and residents opposed to the plan hope to engage neighboring towns as well as Belleville and Bloomfield in the grass roots charge against quality of life and the submerging of property values due to the noxious and potentially dangerous lines of helicopter activity.
Rothman has been successful in toning down the Teterboro flights and has waged and won battles with the Federal Aviation Administration.
He may be the town's big wrench in Newark's works.
See the the March 26 edition of The Observer for the situation so far.
To see the resolution passed at the March 11 Kearny town council meeting see their Web site at http://www.kearnynj.org/Upcomingevents.asp and scroll down to March 12.
