Photo credit: Chait Goli by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies District of Columbia (D.C.) Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said that she hears daily from D.C. residents...
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Buffalo man caught in legal battle with police — over a shout
Photo credit: Samson Katt by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In 2016, lawyer and Buffalo resident Tony Rupp shouted at a car in downtown Buffalo that had its lights off...
A new ‘quiet category’ for pickleball products
Photo credit: ALTEREDSNAPS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Pickleball, the national governing body for the newly popular sport, just announced the launch of its "quiet category" for pickleball equipment. The new category will promote products that...
NYPD announces new indoor shooting range
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies New Yorkers deal with noise every day, whether it's from traffic, construction or airplanes. Over the...
Music in the LA Metro could be harming employees
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a researcher on the adverse effects of elevated train noise on children’s learning, I tend to pay...
Making life in NYC less noisy
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Gothamist has an excellent article about noise in New York City, quoting our noise colleague Arline Bronzaft. As reporter Catalina Gonella writes, “just because the city never sleeps...
Rural residents have worse hearing than urban counterparts
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new report in The Lancet: Regional Health Americas found that in the United States, rural residents had worse hearing than urban residents. The goal of the research was to create estimates of...
How can we deal with city sounds?
Photo credit: Deane Bayas by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article posted by nonprofit Strong Towns begins by stating that one's view on urban sounds — positive or...
Measuring noise at the bedroom window
Photo credit: Scott Webb by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition At the recent webinar, Sounding the Alarm on Noise - NYC meets TO, all attendees agreed that the hour passed much too quickly. Hosted by No More Noise Toronto founder Ingrid Buday, the...









