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Photo credit: Burak The Weekender by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recent podcast, Gastropod asks a question we’ve wondered about, too. Why are restaurants so loud? Gastropod is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, and is supported in part by the...
Photo credit: Elena Saharova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s blogs have covered subway noise in New York City and London’s Tube, both of which have been studied scientifically. Today, I want to report that quieter urban mass...
Photo credit: Joey Lu by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent BBC report states that traffic noise pollution harms children’s health and development. Traffic noise includes aviation noise, railroad noise and road traffic noise. Traffic noise is the...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s and Quiet Communities’ Arline Bronzaft was recently a featured guest on the American Psychological Association podcast. I read the transcript of the podcast but you can listen...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have previously written about the Belltown Hellcat, a car noisily raced through Seattle’s streets. Now, it’s in the news again. Television station KIRO 7 and other media outlets report that the...
Photo credit: Aashish Rai by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Brett Smiley, the Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, wants to crack down on noise. His efforts have drawn media attention in The New York Times and the local paper, the Providence Journal. Noise...
Photo credit: Jose Francisco Fernandez Saura by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When people think of noise in New York City, they often mention Times Square as a crowded,...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies How would air and noise pollution impact individuals who are exposed prenatally and during early childhood? What...
Photo credit: Ibrahim Boran by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recent issue of the Boulder Weekly, restaurant critic John Lehndorff asks, “Are restaurants too loud?” Of course, you know the answer as well as I do. Yes, they are. Lehndorff describes...