Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Get your noise out of my ears! That’s the title of a recent Freakonomics Radio podcast which was updated and re-released as pandemic lockdown noise levels have returned to pre-pandemic...
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The Quiet Coalition’s “Dear Abby” gives advice on noise problems
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition No, The Quiet Coalition doesn’t really have an advice columnist named Dear Abby, but it does have pioneering noise researcher and activist Arline Bronzaft, PhD, Professor Emerita at the City...
Sierra Club recognizes noise pollution as a problem
Photo credit: Natalie Dmay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, discusses noise pollution as a problem. Author Krystal Vasquez thought that noise wasn’t a problem compared to other forms of pollution...
Noisy City lets you see and hear noise pollution in your city
Photo credit: Quintin Gellar by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Two senses informing you about noisy areas in your town are better than one. Do check out, as I did, these...
The power of silence in a deafening world
Photo credit: elifskies by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This thoughtful essay on Vox , excerpted from a book by Justin Zorn and Leigh Merz, discusses the power of silence in a deafening world. Real noise, and informational noise, disturb us and make it...
One woman’s quest for silence
Photo credit: Oscar Ovalle by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Linda Briskin lets her readers know that she disliked noise from the time she was a child. Apparently, the...
Citizen science gains a new noise tool with NoiseModelling
Photo credit: Andrew Neel by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies NoiseModelling, which was begun as a research tool, has enabled researchers to develop environmental noise...
New Yorkers suffer from excessive noise
Photo credit: Craig Adderley by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this report on Spectrum NY1 cable television channel, New Yorkers suffer from excessive noise. Is anyone surprised? The “city that never sleeps” has long been one of the noisiest...
Battle over the East Hampton Airport
Photo credit: Americasroof licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The East Hampton Airport, which has given New Yorkers access to the beaches of...