The leader of a group fighting to end nonessential helicopter flights over New York City renewed her push Friday, one day after a helicopter crash in the Hudson River left six people dead, including three children.

Melissa Elstein, board chair of Stop the Chop NY and NJ, urged lawmakers to take action on legislation banning tourist and commuter helicopter flights.

“We've been asking for these nonessential helicopter flights to be banned since ‘Stop The Chop’ was formed in 2014,” Elstein said during a “Mornings On 1” interview.

Thursday’s crash claimed the lives of Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife Merce Camprubi Montal, and their three children, all visiting from Spain. The pilot also died in the crash.

Elstein said the tragedy echoes previous incidents, including a 2018 crash involving a FlyNYON helicopter in the East River that also killed five tourists. Despite the public attention those crashes received, she said nothing is done to prevent more.

“There ends up being a lot of publicity, and then there's a rush to introduce legislation, but so far, no bills have passed,” she said. “We are advocating for legislation to ban the nonessentials… There's other safer and more environmentally friendly ways to do such commutes or sightseeing.”

Elstein said her personal experience with constant helicopter noise in Central Park spurred her activism. After hearing what she thought was a possible emergency, she began investigating and learned how frequent the flights had become.

“I was jogging with my husband around the Central Park Reservoir, and I heard helicopters hovering and circling, and I thought a child had drowned in the reservoir. And then this kept happening. And also, I noticed that the Hudson River seemed to [have] an ongoing procession of helicopters,” she said.

She said she understands banning helicopter flights is a complex issue given the Federal Aviation Administration controls the airspace.

She has instead suggested shutting down heliports to nonessential flights.

“In the late 1990s, Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani completely closed what was the fourth heliport, East 60th, because of all the complaints there. So these heliports can be closed,” she said.

Elstein said pending City Council legislation, introduced by Majority Leader Amanda Farias, could ban nonessential flights from the two city-owned heliports: East 34th Street and the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, where the helicopter in Thursday’s crash departed from.