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Originally Posted by StoOgE
NYC got rid of all of theirs and banned them, you now have to go to one of the three helipads on the island to use them.
Having worked near a corporate helipads in lower Manhattan they are fucking annoying.
Tokyo still has some corporate helipads.
The only function is fast travel. In NYC that can mean Long Island/airport. In LA it can mean anywhere at all
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Rode in a passenger helicopter from the top of what was then known as the Pan Am Building in NYC in 1968 or 69. The flight went to JFK Airport. It cost about $30 at the time. I rode it at night with a group of friends headed back to Texas. It was pretty thrilling to lift off a fifty story building directly on top of Grand Central Station. We took the chopper mostly as a tourist experience. It was an "A" ticket for sure. Some kind of accident happened up there a few years later, and chopper service was moved over to the East River helipad.