Photo credit: Hüsna Kefelioğlu by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On the Atlas Obscura website, reporter Frank Jacobs details the loneliest road in every state in America. According to Jacobs, telematics specialists at Geotab obtained data from the United...
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Will noise cameras protect all New Yorkers?
Photo credit: Kelly by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As the New York City Council debates extending its pilot project of installing noise cameras to detect loud...
New York City legislators propose seven noise bills
Photo credit: jimmy teoh by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies An earlier blog post informed our readers that the New York City Council was going to introduce two bills that...
The war on cars is also a war on noise
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I wasn’t aware that there’s a website called The War on Cars, but listening to this podcast by conservation scientist and now-author Paul Donald, I realized that the war on cars is also a war on...
A loud A.C. unit at one U.N. member’s building is disturbing neighbors
Photo credit: Xabi Oregi by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Andrew Keh’s New York Times article on Sept. 25 reminds readers how difficult it was a couple of weeks ago for...
Why you should always study in silence
Photo credit: RF._.studio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over forty years ago, I conducted two studies on the impact of noise on children’s learning. In the first...
Knowledge is power
Photo credit: Maria Tyutina by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The statement “knowledge is power” is attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but regardless of who first had this idea, I think it is true. As a physician, I have always adhered to the principles of...
New York City Council introduces two noise-related bills
Photo credit: Ramil Ugot by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies A while back I wrote a post about a New York City resident, Dietmar Detering, who was able to register...
NPR’s unsound advice — 85 decibels is not safe
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m a big fan of NPR. I usually listen to "All Things Considered" and a few other programs if I’m in the car and I think these programs are among the best on the radio. But in this new...