42-432: NYS may refer to: New York Skyports Seaplane Base (IATA: NYS) National Youth Service , of several countries New York State New York Shipbuilding , a corporation Nyungar language (ISO 639-3: nys), an Australian Aboriginal language or dialect continuum Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
84-605: A request for proposal for engineering firms to design the micro-distribution facilities at the six sites. There are no instrument approaches for this airport. Pilots must receive special training and be approved by a member of the North East Seaplanes Pilot's Association and are not permitted to fly over the Queensboro Bridge . Most operations at the seaplane base occur between May and September, when flights are made for weekend getaways to Fire Island and
126-504: A 86-by-56-foot (26 by 17 m) floating ramp that was constructed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard using Federal Emergency Relief Administration funds. The floating ramp included a 45-foot (14 m) diameter turntable that allowed planes to taxi from the water onto the partially submerged end of the turntable and be rotated 180 degrees so the rear of the plane moved out of the water, allowing passengers to quickly load and unload before
168-460: A commuter service used by half a dozen passengers traveling between Glen Cove and Wall Street Skyport, but the service was abandoned after five months when the commuters decided to purchase their own seaplanes to travel to and from work. By 1940, the skyport was handling about 15–25 daily commuters during good weather, mostly in Grumman G-21 , Fairchild 24 , and Sikorsky S-39 seaplanes. Many of
210-427: A four-level parking garage with space for 500 cars on a pier extending 360 feet (110 m) into the river and a marina with berths for 37 pleasure craft. The facility was leased to Gulf Oil Corporation , which relocated and modernized its auto service station near the end of East 23rd Street as part of the pier redevelopment project. Gulf Oil had been operating the seaplane base at East 23rd Street since 1940. In
252-577: A seaplane in the East River using a three-bladed propeller developed by DeVore Aviation Corporation in January 1975, but the results of the noise measurements did not impress city officials. Later that year, the Marine and Aviation Department claimed that noise levels at the seaplane base had been reduced by 30 percent, but the results were disputed and contradicted separate noise measurements that had been collected by
294-564: A waiting room, fueling station, and parking for about 20 planes along a mooring boom . Before the new seaplane base had officially opened, the first commuter seaplane service was started in July 1934 by New York and Suburban Airlines, Inc., which operated a 12-passenger Bellanca Airbus , providing daily trips between Port Washington , Glen Cove and Oyster Bay on Long Island and the seaplane bases being established at Wall Street and East 31st Street. In 1935, Marine Air Transport Company operated
336-642: Is a seaplane base in the East River VFR corridor in New York City , located at the foot of East 23rd Street between Waterside Plaza and Stuyvesant Cove Park . The seaplane base opened in 1939 and was later incorporated into the Skyport Marina that was completed in 1962. It is the only seaplane base in New York City. The establishment of a new seaplane base at East 23rd Street was initially promoted in
378-535: The Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. by Downtown Airlines began in 1974, but the airline went out of business later that year. Seaplane service between Wall Street and downtown Philadelphia was revived by Seaplane Shuttle Transport from 1976 to 1977, which offered lower airfares designed to compete with Amtrak's Metroliner service. Although the seaplane service was breaking even, it was discontinued because it
420-645: The Delaware River in Philadelphia , but operated out of the Midtown Skyport. It was the first airline to provide intercity service from the seaplane base at East 31st Street. In December 1936, the Twenty-third Street Association held a luncheon and passed a resolution calling for a hearing with the city asking why the seaplane base at East 23rd Street had not been further advanced. A speaker at
462-596: The Delaware River in Philadelphia . For its Manhattan terminal, the airline used a new floating dock that was located near the former site of Pier 8 (to the north of the Downtown Manhattan Heliport ). The following year, Downtown Airlines replaced its six-passenger Piper Aztecs with larger DeHavilland Twin Otters that could carry 20 passengers and also provide more reliability by flying in poor weather and taking off in rougher water. Service from Wall Street to
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#1732873525025504-548: The Dock Department estimated that the new seaplane base could open that August and noted that it did not need to be fully completed for the first passengers because initial volumes were expected to be light and there had been no further developments in the proposed airline service to Boston. They said that full facilities such as a glass-enclosed terminal would be completed later. On November 1, 1936, Keystone Airlines began providing seaplane service to Bainbridge Street Wharf on
546-534: The Financial District of Lower Manhattan . The seaplane base operated until the mid-1980s. In the 1930s, one of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia 's efforts to promote aviation in New York City involved the construction of two city-owned seaplane bases, located on the East River at the ends of Wall Street and East 31st Street, which were called the Downtown Skyport and Midtown Skyport, respectively. Their purpose
588-642: The Department of Air Resources. In 1976, Seaplane Shuttle Transportation, which at the time was an airline beginning operations between the Wall Street Seaplane Base and Penn's Landing on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, tried to establish a new seaplane terminal at East 34th Street to provide more convenient service for business travelers destined to Midtown Manhattan . The application for
630-545: The Hamptons , although seaplanes can land throughout the year provided that there is no ice in the river. Wall Street Skyport Wall Street Skyport , also known as Downtown Skyport and later as Wall Street Seaplane Base , was a seaplane base in New York City , located on the East River near the foot of Wall Street adjacent to Pier 11 . Opened in 1934, the facility was primarily used by suburban commuters working in
672-621: The United States. The floating ramp and turntable for the Downtown Skyport took two and a half months to construct. It was launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on August 15, 1934, and christened with a bottle of champagne as "Wall Street Skyport." The dock was transported to its permanent location in Lower Manhattan and officially opened on with a dedication ceremony on September 5, 1934. Other facilities at Wall Street Skyport included
714-580: The Wall Street Seaplane Base. After failed attempts at negotiations between New York Skyports and the city, the issue was taken to court and a justice of State Supreme Court ordered the city to renew the permit. Seaplane tours were offered from Skyport Marina by Sea Air NY beginning in January 1999, but only operated for a couple of months before commercial air tours were banned from using the city-owned pier over noise concerns. In August 2021, Tailwind Air began providing scheduled service from
756-459: The aircraft returned to the water for takeoff. The entire process could be done in less than 40 seconds. By using the turntable, seaplanes did not have spend extra time tying up to a dock or using a boat to transport passengers to and from the shore. The aquatic turntable was similar to one used at the seaplane terminal in Jersey City that opened in 1933 and was one of the first such turntables in
798-403: The aircraft using the base were single-engine Cessnas and the turntable that had been originally used to turn heavier seaplanes had been removed. During the summer, the seaplane base was also used to shuttle passengers making weekend getaways to Fire Island and The Hamptons . In July 1972, Downtown Airlines began operating scheduled seaplane service between Wall Street and Penn's Landing on
840-508: The city was selected as a recipient for a $ 5 million federal grant from the United States Maritime Administration to develop micro-distribution facilities that would receive waterborne freight deliveries and facilitate last-mile deliveries by greener forms of transportation such as ebikes . One of the six landing sites proposed in the application was a new barge alongside the Skyport Marina. The city subsequently issued
882-476: The department anticipated that noise levels would further decrease if the Federal Aviation Administration approved a three-bladed propeller. Later that year, an agreement was reached between local residents and the Marine and Aviation Department to reduce the noise limit to 80 dB and also require aircraft using the seaplane base to have noise-reducing propellers. Initial tests were conducted on
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#1732873525025924-487: The early 1970s, residents of the nearby Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complexes began urging the city to shut down the seaplane base over noise concerns. The city's Marine and Aviation Department issued directives in 1972 requiring seaplanes to taxi out as least 500 feet (150 m) from the shoreline before beginning their takeoff run to reduce the noise the aircraft were causing in waterfront areas. Local residents continued in their efforts to close
966-641: The eastern terminus of air mail instead of Newark Airport in New Jersey, but Newark Airport held an advantage because it had a shorter travel time for trucks carrying mail to and from Manhattan. A seaplane link between Floyd Bennett Field and East 23rd Street was proposed as a solution to cut the travel time between the Brooklyn and Manhattan. The new seaplane base would also be close to the Madison Square Station Post Office on East 23rd Street, which
1008-735: The launch of service by a month and opted to use a private terminal at Dulles International Airport for its initial service while the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration evaluated security concerns for the proposed commercial flights within the National Capital Region restricted airspace . In October 2022, the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced that
1050-535: The luncheon from Keystone Airlines said that the present terminal at the Midtown Skyport was inadequate. Keystone Airlines operated service on the seaplane route between New York and Philadelphia from 1936 to 1940. Construction of the new seaplane base at East 23rd Street resumed by 1938, which was then planned to replace the Midtown Skyport at East 31st Street. The improvements to the seaplane base were made using $ 500,000 of Works Progress Administration funds. The seaplane base at East 31st Street closed by 1941, when
1092-415: The mid-1930s by mayor Fiorello LaGuardia , who wanted to renovate an abandoned pier on the East River that had been previously used as a terminal for ferries operating to Greenpoint, Brooklyn . One of the original objectives of the new seaplane base was to provide a faster airmail link to Manhattan. At that time, Mayor LaGuardia had been advocating the designation of Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn as
1134-463: The new seaplane base began in March 1936. The facility was planned to accommodate eight planes loading or unloading at a time and included ramps that allowed seaplanes to taxi out of the water to the terminal or parking areas, a dock for flying boats, and a turntable. The design of the terminal building included a waiting room on the ground floor, a restaurant, observation lounge, and administration offices on
1176-512: The new terminal failed to advance and Seaplane Shuttle Transportation ended all of its flights in 1977, citing the lack of a landing site in Midtown Manhattan as one of the reasons contributing to the company's decision to discontinue operations. Had the seaplane base at East 34th Street been approved, a stipulation added to the proposed application would have terminated the city's lease with the seaplane base operator at East 23rd Street when it
1218-452: The regular passengers included Wall Street businessmen who owned their planes and had full-time pilots. While the cost of having a private seaplane was expensive, some executives found cost savings over their prior use of commuter yachts from their estates on the North Shore of Long Island . During the middle of the day, the seaplane bases along the East River also accommodated trips made by
1260-473: The seaplane base and by 1974 gained the support of Ed Koch , who was serving as the representative of New York's 18th congressional district , and Ethan Eldon, the Commissioner of the city's Department of Air Resources. At that time, the Marine and Aviation Department was requiring seaplanes to taxi out at least 1,000 feet (300 m) from the shore for takeoffs and limited noise levels to 88 decibels (dB), but
1302-438: The seaplane base at East 23rd Street had started in 1936, the facility did not open until 1939. The Brooklyn Times-Union speculated that construction was initially rushed because due to the receipt of a bid from an airline to operate a seaplane service between New York and Boston that summer. By March 1936, two airlines had bid for the use of the 23rd Street Skyport for regular service to Boston. In May 1936, engineers from
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1344-591: The seaplane base at East 23rd Street to Boston Harbor . It took more than five years for the airline to arrange the service and obtain the permits needed to operate the route, which was planned to operate seasonally from March through November. Tailwind Air expanded its intercity operations by providing scheduled seaplane service between Manhattan and Washington, D.C. , in October 2022. The airline had originally intended to fly to College Park Airport in Maryland, but delayed
1386-578: The seaplane base at East 23rd Street was the only seaplane facility operating in Manhattan. On April 12, 1949, Stanley Hiller Jr. landed at Wall Street Skyport in a Hiller 360 , completing the first coast-to-coast flight for a civilian helicopter. His journey began on January 24, 1949, at his company's plant in Palo Alto, California and stopped at over 30 cities along the way across the United States. A dedicated landing site for helicopters in Lower Manhattan
1428-561: The second floor, and a pilots' lounge and bedrooms on the third floor. A tower above the building would house facilities for radio, weather, and air traffic control. The city had originally planned to close its two other East River seaplane bases—the Downtown Skyport at Wall Street and the Midtown Skyport at East 31st Street—to consolidate all operations to the new seaplane base at East 23rd Street, but ended up deciding to keep all three facilities in place. Although construction work on
1470-458: The segment of the East River Drive between East 23rd and East 34th streets was completed, as terminal building for the Midtown Skyport was located in the path of the new highway. The seaplane base at East 23rd Street later became part of the Skyport Marina, a $ 1,400,000 multipurpose waterfront facility designed by Praeger, Kavanagh & Waterbury that opened on April 18, 1962 and included
1512-531: The title NYS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NYS&oldid=1091392506 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages New York Skyports Seaplane Base New York Skyports Inc. Seaplane base ( IATA : NYS , FAA LID : 6N7 )
1554-400: The wives of commuters, who came to Manhattan on private seaplanes for shopping excursions. By 1967, the facility was known as Wall Street Seaplane Base and was still being used by about 30 daily commuters during good weather from the spring until the fall (there was not enough light for commuter planes to safely take off during the winter months when sunset occurs earlier in the day). Most of
1596-469: Was connected by pneumatic mail tubes to the General Post Office across from Pennsylvania Station . In addition to serving as an air mail link, the seaplane base was also planned to serve as a passenger link by ferrying air passengers between Manhattan and Floyd Bennett Field. It also aligned with Mayor LaGuardia's plans to develop aviation facilities closer to the center of the city. Work on
1638-645: Was later established with the opening of the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in 1960. Before the ferry terminal at Pier 11 opened in the mid-1980s, the seaplane base also accommodated some attempts at establishing new ferry services serving the Wall Street area, including hydrofoil service to East 90th Street in Yorkville and hovercraft service to Huntington via the Long Island Sound and Nyack via
1680-485: Was not showing signs of returning a large profit in the long-term. For a six-month period in the beginning of 1983, Wall Street Seaplane Base temporarily accommodated all of the seaplane operations in Manhattan when the city refused to renew a permit for the New York Skyports Seaplane Base at East 23rd Street over noise complaints and safety concerns By 1986, Wall Street Seaplane Base had closed and
1722-503: Was set to expire in 1978. The seaplane base was shut down for a six-month period in the beginning of 1983, when the city refused to renew its permit over noise complaints and concerns over safety with increased helicopter traffic due to new flights from the East 34th Street Heliport and the East 60th Street Heliport to John F. Kennedy International Airport . The temporary closure forced all seaplane operations in Manhattan to be accommodated by
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1764-404: Was to facilitate the use of seaplanes by private owners, provide seaplane commuting services to suburban areas, and encourage airlines to provide direct service to Manhattan. An air taxi service was also planned between the seaplane bases in Manhattan and Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, which opened in 1930 as city's first municipal airport. Each of the new seaplane bases on the East River had
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