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The New York Airways Flight 971 crash didn't help - https://gothamist.com/news/in-1977-five-were-killed-in-helicopter-accident-atop-midtowns-pan-am-building https://gothamist.com/news/in-1977-five-were-killed-in-helic... That heliport also wasn't profitable during the few years it operated in the 1960s. NYC does have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Manhattan_Heliport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Manhattan_Heliport ("top business executives and time-sensitive document deliveries often use the heliport", as well as tourists and others) but it's on a pier, not on a roof.