{"id":30038,"date":"2025-11-05T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30038\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:32:10","slug":"nyc-gets-12-minute-helicopter-for-suburbanites-avoiding-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30038\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Gets 12-Minute Helicopter for Suburbanites Avoiding Gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Traffic\u2019s back, train delays are all too common and city politics have been boiling over. A new commuter helicopter route is aimed at offering New Yorkers a quick escape hatch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Blade Air Mobility, now part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/JOBY:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Joby Aviation Inc.<\/a>, is starting a pilot service Dec. 1 connecting Manhattan with Westchester County Airport. The weekday flights are aimed at workers who crave the suburbs but are being called back to the office every day. Estimated travel time: 12 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic\u2019s back, train delays are all too common and city politics have been boiling over. A new commuter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5879,3339,5869,18477,75,9,24,56,63,65,64,87,5913,18478,956],"class_list":["post-30038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-joby-aviation-inc","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-regulation","tag-rob-wiesenthal","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30038","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=30038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}