The New York City Economic Development Corporation estimates over 56,000 sightseeing helicopter trips in 2014 operated from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport. In the year ending December 30, 2003, the airport had 10,002 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 90% general aviation and 10% military. The heliport covers 2 acres (0.81 ha) at an elevation of 7 feet (2.1 m). Public sightseeing and VIP flights are also common. The Downtown Manhattan Heliport is a public heliport operated by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) with charter service to Newark Liberty International Airport, Teterboro Airport, Morristown Municipal Airport, and other New York–area airports. headquarters and Johns Hopkins University when he was chairman of both institutions. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg frequently used the heliport to fly between Bloomberg L.P. The heliport is the normal landing spot for the President of the United States on visits to New York. Much of the heliport's traffic is generated by Wall Street and the lower Manhattan financial district top business executives and time-sensitive document deliveries often use the heliport. In 2006 US Helicopter resumed scheduled passenger service with hourly flights to JFK until November 2009 when it ceased all service.

Kennedy International Airport (JFK) scheduled flights ended in the mid-1980s.

In the 1960s and 1970s New York Airways helicopters flew from the heliport to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and John F. Heliport) is a helicopter landing platform at Pier 6 in the East River in Lower Manhattan, New York, New York.ĭowntown Manhattan Heliport opened on December 8, 1960, supplementing the heliport at West 30th Street that had opened in 1956. The Downtown Manhattan Heliport ( IATA: JRB, ICAO: KJRB, FAA LID: JRB) (Downtown Manhattan/Wall St. Downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6 in the East River

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