PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A helicopter was circling the Park Slope area on Sunday night, startling some residents in and around the neighborhood. It started around 10:15 p.m. and could still be heard by 11.
Patch reached out to both the NYPD's media relations line and the 72nd Precinct's office, and neither could tell us what was going on.
Noah Hurowitz, a reporter with DNAinfo, though, said on Twitter that an officer on the street told him the chopper was involved in a movie shoot. It's unclear whether the helicopter was actually part of the shoot or responding to a fire from it, Hurowitz said.
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Cop on the street said the choppers over gowanus are because of a fake fire from a movie shoot
— Noah Hurowitz (@NoahHurowitz) October 2, 2017
Also my impression was that the choppers were looking into the smoke from the shoot, not necessarily part of it
— Noah Hurowitz (@NoahHurowitz) October 2, 2017
#Helicopters over #Parkslope #Brooklyn, NY for over 10 minutes. Whats up?
— Daniel Ramos (@Ramos4Assembly) October 2, 2017
Anyone know why a helicopter would be hanging around park slope Brooklyn rn :/
— Jill Capewell (@jcapejcape) October 2, 2017
Park Slope is AGITATING on twitter about the great helicopter mystery of October 2017.
— cga 640k dos (@h0h0h0) October 2, 2017
The last time something like this happened, back in March, an NYPD helicopter was searching for a missing child in the area.
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