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Officials: Working on jet noise near JFK

A plane flies over a Stewart Manor home.

Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | A plane flies over a Stewart Manor home. (July 14, 2011)

Federal and airport officials assured residents living near Kennedy Airport that they are working toward controlling jet noise in the their communities.

"We are talking to our controllers and we are taking action," Jim Hayden, air traffic manager for New York Terminal Radar Approach Control, which oversees air traffic control in the area, said at a meeting with residents of more than a dozen...

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