{"id":211717,"date":"2026-04-27T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:07:13","slug":"giant-quadcopters-have-hit-the-skies-of-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211717\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Quadcopters Have Hit the Skies of NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, on my way back from a <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-to-host-free-world-cup-watch-parties-in-every-borough-mamdani-says?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press conference<\/a> on Staten Island about World Cup watch parties, I rode my bike to the Staten Island Ferry. A bike to a ferry? What is this, 1870? But it was on the way to this ferry that I spotted the future: a giant electric quadcopter at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport.<\/p>\n<p>          Give us your email to read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-cta__description mb\">\n          Sign up now for our free newsletters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/newsletter\/\" class=\"passata color-hg__text background-hg__background p-match radius-match border text-2125 text-decoration-none mb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Sign up<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, on my way back from a press conference on Staten Island about World Cup watch parties,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-211717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}