The West 30th Street Heliport

On September 26, 1956, the heliport opened with two landing pads. In December of that same year, scheduled passenger flights were begun by New York Airways, the first airline flight to Manhattan. As a result of a court agreement between the operators of the heliport and the Friends of Hudson River Park (who took action to enforce the Hudson River Park Act, which had banned tourism flights from that location), tourism flights were scheduled to move to the Downtown Manhattan Heliport on March 31, 2010, while the entire heliport was scheduled to move by December 31, 2012. However, the state legislature voided the agreement in 2013, and the heliport remains open to this day.

The heliport is located on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. 

• As per the heliport's Instrument Procedures, boating traffic in the Hudson River is required to exercise care in approaching the heliport's landing pad. 
• 73% of the flights are air taxi, 16% general aviation, 10% commercial, and less than 1% military. 
• As of September 7, 2017, there were 14,510 annual flight operations. 
• There are now 11 helipads in the port.