From today’s Times, this piece by Alex Mindlin. The writer even includes a comment from an OTBKB reader.

EVERYONE agrees that Park Slope is no Flushing or Howard Beach, not one of those neighborhoods where the whine of descending jets is as familiar as birdsong. But ever since 2000, its residents have complained of an increase in noise from low-flying jets bound for La Guardia Airport.

The battle has been fought on many fronts. A neighborhood group, the Park Slope Quality of Life Committee, posts pictures of low-flying planes on its Web site, along with a petition asking the Federal Aviation Administration to limit air traffic to La Guardia and vary the approaching flight patterns.

Local message boards are packed with stories of rattled windows and disturbed sleep. “I have airplanes flying low and loud over my house every two minutes almost all day,” wrote a resident on Brooklynian.com.
Yvette Clark, who represents the area in the House of Representatives, has herself brought the complaints to the F.A.A. and to the Port Authority.

Finally, on June 19, it seemed as if these long-lived troubles might be over. According to an account in The Brooklyn Paper, a Port Authority official told residents at a meeting of Community Board 6 that an airplane guidance beacon known as a VOR would soon be moved from Rikers Island to La Guardia, supposedly changing the path of landing planes and solving Park Slopers’ problem.

“The din could die down as soon as next month,” reported the newspaper, which called the development a “eureka moment.” Residents were delighted.

Last week, though, Arlene Salac, an F.A.A. spokeswoman, said that a resolution of the problem was not to be. “That has no bearing on the approaches to La Guardia,” Ms. Salac said of the beacon, adding, “Procedures are not going to change.”

That leaves the neighborhood’s disgruntled residents to continue their fight. But it also leaves residents of other neighborhoods, as well as skeptical Park Slopers, to indulge in a little airplane-noise one-upmanship.
“Gimme a break,” wrote a commenter on Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, responding to a post about “unbearable” airplane noise. “I grew up in Flushing right in the path of planes landing at LGA. Move to a farm if you can’t handle noise.”