"me" wrote in message ...

Think of that part of the airspace as a dead end canyon. The canyon is
made up by the class B airspace
in the form of a rectangular cut out. In the past you could fly up into
the cut out but when you get to the dead end you had to do something.
Either make the very tight U turn staying in the tight canyon or if you
wanted to keep going you needed to contact ATC for clearance into
LaGuardia airspace all this needed to be done in a very short period of
time when you are already occupied with many other tasks like watching for
heavy traffic and staying inside the exclusion. In 25 years of flying in
this airspace I have never once had the need nor felt desire to go up the
East river exclusion without already being in contact with ATC.
The reason it is there is to let the helicopters and seaplanes operate in
this small cut out without the need to contact ATC unless they wanted to.
I hope this helps get a picture of this..


That doesn't answer my question. What is the purpose of the new requirement
to communicate with ATC when operating in that part of the Class B
exclusion?