Photo credit: Ryan licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Toronto, like New York City, Westchester County and cities in Europe, is planning to...
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Audible ads irk NYC subway passengers
Photo credit: Pedro Plassen Lopes licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In 1985 the Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced the Music Under...
A short course about noise
Photo credit: Gabriel Hohol from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague, and Quiet Coalition co-founder, Arline Bronzaft, PhD, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, will be giving a 3-session online course about noise...
NYC Transit Authority again required to report on noise
Photo credit: Peter Thoeny - Quality HDR Photography licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed...
Dense plantings may help block noise
Photo credit: Jo Kassis from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from Discover discusses how plants can help absorb, diffuse, or block noise, especially road traffic noise. I didn’t know that noise actually makes leaves tremble,...
NY Gov. Hochul signs SLEEP Act into law
Photo credit: Markus Spiske from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Legislation signed by Governor Hochul on Friday to “increase penalties against motorists and...
Nature’s sounds improve well-being
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies During the early months of the COVID-19 shutdown, urban residents noted that with less aircraft traffic overhead and fewer cars on the...
Becoming attuned to the city soundscape
Photo credit: Daria Shevtsova from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Feargus O’Sullivan, Bloomberg, like many other writers this past year and a half, has become more in tune to the sounds around...
Birds thrived in cities during lockdown
Photo credit: JULIO NERY from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have covered how many animal species--on land, in the air, and in the water--responded to the reduction in anthropogenic noise caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns, but we are writing...