Angry Westchester County residents say the steady stream of helicopters carrying affluent travelers to the Hamptons has turned their quiet suburban communities into what feels like a war zone.

Residents of the Sound Shore say the flights are destroying the area’s usual calm, with the noise disrupting work calls, family dinners and peaceful afternoons by the waterfront.

Larchmont resident Jay Davis said the helicopters have become impossible to escape, roaring overhead as he works remotely, spends time at parks along Long Island Sound and watches television with his family.

‘I have to put the closed captions on so I can see what’s happening on the screen. I don’t want to continue to live like this,’ Davis told The Wall Street Journal.

According to Wings Air Helicopters, the premium service can get passengers to the Hamptons in less than an hour, allowing them to bypass traffic-heavy drives and longer train journeys.

Frustration among those living beneath the flight paths appears to be mounting, with residents taking to Nextdoor to air complaints about the increasingly intrusive overhead traffic.

One neighbor likened the booming noise to that of a military Chinook helicopter, writing: ‘It’s giving me ’Nam flashbacks.’

But a Vietnam veteran from Yonkers took the opposite position, replying: ‘As a Vietnam veteran myself, I enjoy the flyovers. Welcome home.’

 ‘One time I thought I had a helicopter in my driveway. It’s not as peaceful as it was before,’ Nancy Monzidelis, another Larchmont resident, told the WSJ outlet. 

The disturbance had prompted residents to contact the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and local congressmen. 

Mateo Lallemand, a sophomore at Rye Country Day School, took matters into his own hands by creating an app that cross-references helicopter noises with the FAA registry and FlightRadar24, a flight tracking system.

Lallemand told the WSJ he set up a microphone outside his home that captures the audio and directly sends the information to his app for review. 

His collected data showcased flights travelled to the Hamptons at around 1,000 feet above homes despite companies such as Flexjet, advertising that their luxury helicopter flies at a cruising altitude of 4,000 FT. 

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This data was then shared with Representative George Latimer, who represents Westchester County, as a call to action to help find a solution to the complaints. 

According to the WSJ, Rep. Latimer has engaged with FAA staff to study and investigate the issue. 

‘The residents have a legitimate concern that cannot be ignored,’ he said in a statement to the outlet. 

Westchester residents aren’t the only New Yorkers up in arms about the noise. 

Outraged residents of Riverhead, Long Island attended a town board in July and complained about helicopters flying overhead from the North Fork to the Hamptons. 

According to the Gabreski Airport noise committee, the Westhampton airport recorded over 500 complaints from January through April of 2026. 

Riverhead residents described the noises as ‘intolerable’ and claimed pilots were not following the FAA’s mandatory New York North Shore Helicopter Routes. 

Since then, Eli Flint, the president of Flexjet’s helicopter division, has spoken out to WSJ about major safety concerns being the key reason why helicopters fly at low heights. 

Earlier last year, a passenger jet carrying 60 passengers and an Army helicopter with crew members collided in Washington while heading to Ronald Reagan National Airport. The accident killed up to dozens of people. 

As a result, air traffic controllers have directed all pilots to make more space for commercial airlines heading into airports.  

‘That’s why we’re at 700 to 1,000 feet. We know it’s an issue,’ Flint told the outlet

The Daily Mail has reached out to Mateo Lallemand, Representative George Latimer, Eli Flint and the FAA for comments. 

Christina Aguilera commanded attention in a daring black gown as she headed the celebrity arrivals at Friday’s Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation gala.

Eva Herzigová, 53, and Monica Bellucci, 61, also made striking appearances, each choosing an elegant black dress for the glamorous evening.

Around 250 guests gathered at the Opéra Garnier for the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation gala, which marked its 20th anniversary.

The 45-year-old American pop star stole the spotlight in a black dress featuring a thigh-high slit and a glittering plunging neckline.

Czech supermodel Eva brought classic red-carpet glamour in a strapless gown as she attended alongside her new husband, Gregorio Marsiaj.

The pair married this summer at Italy’s Church of San Vito, formalising their relationship after 25 years together.

Meanwhile, Monica opted for a flowing black V-neck dress, delivering another effortlessly elegant red-carpet moment.

Hollywood icon Richard Gere, 77, looked dashing in a black tuxedo as he posed for photographs.

Italian film producer Monika Bacardi opted for a racy white cut-out number as she made her star-studded appearance. 

Eva and Gregorio first met in the Italian coastal village of Varigotti in 2001 and became engaged in 2017.

However, it is not her first marriage, as Eva, who is originally from the Czech Republic, was previously married to Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres.

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She shot to fame after starring in the famous 1994 ‘Hello Boys’ Wonderbra campaign and went on to become one of the most recognisable models in the world, working with fashion houses including Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Dior and Chanel.

Gregorio belongs to a well-known entrepreneurial family in Turin, who founded Sabelt, a company specialising in safety systems for racing cars.

She spoke to Tatler about her relationship with the Italian businessman previously.

Eva said: ‘He makes me feel so good about who I am, as I am. I have moments of not feeling good.

‘But he always brings me up and out again. He is such a positive person and such a wonderful father. He fills my life with joy.’

Melissa Francis, the CEO of Sailfish Productions, has blasted American Airlines over what she described as another frustrating customer service experience involving a first-class ticket.

The 53-year-old former Fox News anchor shared her complaints in a post on X on Wednesday, detailing what she said was a confusing attempt to fly in first class.

‘I absolutely HATE American Airlines,’ the media executive wrote.

‘I bought a first class ticket and when I got to the gate, they had switched my seat to coach.’

When Francis sought an explanation at the gate, she claimed an airline employee told her that the situation ‘happens all the time’—but would not issue a refund.

‘She said no and I can get on Twitter and complain if I want to ask for a refund or I can sit on hold, but she suggest tweeting because nobody answers the phone,’ Francis said.

‘Even though she says she runs into this problem on a daily basis so obviously this is a scheme of theirs to boost revenue.’

Francis, who played Cassandra on Little House on the Prairie before launching her journalism career, also raised concerns about TSA line issues she said she encounters while traveling with American Airlines.

‘Neither of these problems have once happened to be on any other airline,’ she wrote.

‘I would love to avoid flying with them, but there are some routes from my home that only they do sadly so in the future I’m going to walk rather than buy a ticket with this horrible horrible airline.’

An American Airlines spokesperson commented under Francis’s post saying: ‘We’re really sorry to hear this happened. That isn’t the experience we want for you. Please send us a DM with your confirmation code, and we’ll take a closer look at the seat change and TSA PreCheck concerns. We’d like the opportunity to review what’s going on and help where we can.’

The Daily Mail has contacted Francis and American Airlines for further comment. 

Francis’s public dissatisfaction comes after a series of controversies involving the airline.

In 2025, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom came under fire on social media for the ‘disrespectful’ outfit he wore to film a video statement regarding a plane crash.

And earlier this month, a man was duct-taped to his seat on an American Airlines flight after going on an alleged alcohol-fueled racist and homophobic tirade that caused the aircraft to divert.

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Arthur Lundeen, 67, of Arizona, allegedly had to be zip-tied and duct-taped to his seat on Flight 618 from Dallas, Texas, to Newark, New Jersey. 

After yelling at a male passenger sitting next to him in first class, Lundeen, allegedly called a black flight attendant the N-word and made homophobic comments.

In August, American Airlines customers were left fuming after the company stripped away a beloved perk.

For select flights to and from Hawaii and on transcontinental routes, frequent flyers are now added to an upgrade list for premium economy – instead of elite business class seats. 

And in July, the airline left hundreds of passengers stranded on nine planes for three hours at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

American Airlines also faced backlash for delaying a flight for more than 15 hours, only to cancel it entirely after passengers waited all day, last winter. 

The issues come amid a dispute between American Airlines pilots and the company’s CEO Robert Isom.

Captain Nick Silva, an American pilot who serves as president of the Allied Pilots Association, attacked Isom in a statement: ‘The pool of talent to lead airlines seems to be relatively small.

‘It’s just the question of is there somebody out there who can turn the ship around faster? We have hope that there’s somebody out there who sees the potential here, who sees what we see, and is able to come in.’

The pilot’s public discontent and senior management has been making headlines since earlier this year and is part of a public feud between American Airlines senior management and its pilots and flight attendants.

The union that represents the airline’s more than 25,000 flight attendants, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, declared that it no longer had confidence in Isom’s leadership which started in 2022.

In a statement sent to The Dallas Morning News, American Airlines said: ‘We value the perspectives of our pilots and all team members and maintain regular dialogue with our union partners.

‘While there is more work to do, American has a clear strategy, we’re making meaningful investments across the business, and we remain focused on improving performance and delivering long-term value for our customers, team members and shareholders,’ the statement continued.

President Donald Trump said he has barred CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House, accusing the outlets of spreading “fake news.”

Journalists from the affected organizations said they were caught off guard by the move and had received no advance warning at the White House on Thursday.

Asked about the announcement by NBC reporter Kelly O’Donnell in the Oval Office, Trump said he acted because the outlets were “fake,” had low ratings and, in Politico’s case, because “they have a government under Biden who gave them $8 million to keep them afloat.”

It was not immediately clear what prompted Trump’s online outburst.

Trump said in the Oval Office that there was no specific reason for the timing, describing it instead as the result of a “cumulation of stories over the past few years” that he had grown “sick of.”

“Maybe they can get better and we’d like to have them in,” Trump remarked. “Somebody has got to keep them away.”

In his initial Truth Social post, Trump warned: “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”

Trump was later asked by a reporter which other news organizations could face similar action.

“The New York Times” is fake news. “Washington post” is fake news. They’re crumby papers. Both doing poorly, by the way. We’re probably not going to display the paper anymore in the white house. We haven’t taken the step of throwing them out,” he said.

As the news emerged, reporters at the White House were overheard questioning whether it was a “Trump hissy fit” or an actual policy decision.

It is unclear what this means moving forward for access. 

Arkansas Gov. and former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders answered a question from a White House reporter on whether or not she agrees with Trump’s ban.

‘Sure,’ she responded.

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‘I think it’s hard for you to argue against a free press when you’re in the oval office asking questions of the president of the United States… the president is right to support the first amendment. But he’s also right to ask that you be honest and fair. That’s not an unreasonable thing to ask,’ she added. 

The White House was reached out to for comment on this story but did not immediately respond.

This comes after President Trump’s move back in February of last year to keep reporters from the AP out of White House coverage after the outlet decided not enact his name changes for the Gulf of America. 

The AP filed a lawsuit and that case is still pending. 

Trump has had a contentious relationship with the media for quite some time, with no outlets escaping his wrath. 

He has targeted the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and the New York Times. 

He has often sparred with CNN’s Kaitlin Collins in the oval office, saying her questions were ‘dumb’ and that she should ‘smile more.’

Right-wing influencer Nick Sortor posted on social media after the update saying the CNN ban was a positive development because it ‘was LONG overdue.’

Sortor wrote: ‘Kaitlan Collins in particular is EXTREMELY rude and REGULARLY interrupts President Trump in the Oval Office.’

This decision from President Trump will likely face legal challenges from the media organizations that are involved in the White House ban. 

President Trump attended the White House Correspondents Dinner for the first time this year, and gave a speech that focused on attacking his political opponents, making jokes and taking shots at the media.

To the King’s supporters, the move looks like revenge delivered with an almost glacial chill. Relations between the House of Windsor and the Spencers have long been strained, but few anticipated what they regard as such a calculated and spiteful attack.

For Prince William, the perceived betrayal is especially painful. For years, he has urged those still benefiting from the memory of his late mother to allow her to rest in peace. Now, it appears, he must include his own uncle among them.

Whether Earl Spencer’s explosive book is genuinely an act of brotherly loyalty — an attempt to correct what many believe were injustices inflicted on Diana during her life and after her death — is open to debate. What is harder to dispute is that he has taken a sharply honed scalpel to wounds that had never fully healed.

When it emerged that the four-times-married aristocrat had begun writing after nearly 30 years, I was told privately that William was ‘deeply disappointed’.

‘What good can ever come of it?’ one source asked.

‘You can imagine how this has gone down,’ said another.

Yesterday, I heard indirectly that William was ‘furious’. I cannot officially verify that account, as Kensington Palace is keeping out of the dispute — at least for the moment.

The Prince of Wales also faces an uncomfortable reality. Diana’s final resting place is on the extensive Althorp estate, the Spencer family home. Put simply, for William to visit his mother, he has to go through Earl Spencer.

Earl Spencer, of course, would never prevent William from visiting to pay his respects. At Diana’s funeral, he famously pledged that William and Harry’s ‘blood family’ would protect her boys.

But one can only imagine how difficult this episode will be for the heir to the Throne, particularly knowing that his estranged brother, Harry, has recently forged such a close relationship with their uncle.

It is a moot point whether the Duke of Sussex knew precisely what was coming. Some have reported that he was ‘aware’ of what was written in the book, and some have wondered if it might have come up when the two men met during the Sussexes’ recent stay at Althorp. Others, however, claim that like the King and Prince William, Harry was not informed about the book’s contents because security was supposedly so tight around the final manuscript – this week’s theft of the Dutch-language edition notwithstanding.

As for the King, it’s difficult for me to convey the true sense of anger and disappointment at what Earl Spencer has done.

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On Wednesday night, when the Mail reported the book’s sensational claim that the then-Prince of Wales said of Diana ‘we will forget her soon enough’ shortly after she died, it took just 90 minutes for the Palace to respond.

The speed of that response shows just how much the claim incensed the King’s senior officials and the monarch himself. The statement broke the Palace’s long-held mantra of refusing to comment on any royal biography or memoir (even Harry’s) as a matter of principle.

But the phrasing used to rebut the earl’s claims, clearly designed to inflict maximum damage, was the biggest clue as to how they truly feel: ‘His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss.’ ‘“Recollections may vary” on steroids,’ one former courtier remarked to me, referring, of course, to Queen Elizabeth’s famously masterful reaction to Harry and Meghan’s bombshell Oprah interview.

There seems little doubt that a conversation between Charles and the earl took place in those fraught days back in 1997. But there are only two men in the world who know exactly what was said – and both have wildly different memories of what was discussed, and of the emotions and language used. For what it’s worth, I am told that Earl Spencer, as a historian, has always been a strict note-taker.

Julian Payne, the King’s former communications secretary, told the BBC yesterday: ‘I personally was working for (Charles) during the 20th anniversary of the late princess’s death in 2017… He was very clear that there was never to be any criticism, never to be any pushback on the narratives that were usually highly critical of him – but he was absolutely emphatic that we were to respect her memory and not undermine it in any way.

‘It seems to me very odd that in the moment itself, with the grief of his family and his own shock, that he would choose that moment to use those words. It’s just not language that I recognise.’

Another friend of the King candidly admitted to me that the breakdown of his marriage to Diana had been ‘wretched’ and there were ‘wrongs on both sides’. But they empathised how ‘paralysed’ he was with shock, grief and, yes, self-recrimination.

They also point out that it was Charles who went against both the initial wishes of his own family, and that of Diana’s, for her to be treated as a private citizen. And it was Charles who insisted on flying to Paris to bring his ex-wife’s body back home. By all accounts, he even fought for Diana to be afforded a full state funeral.

Why, they ask, would Charles have wanted her to be ‘forgotten’ or diminished in any way, when he was privately battling for her to be given greater recognition?

Whatever the truth, it must be hard to see what good can come of all this. Scores may have been settled. But at what cost?