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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...
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...
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...
Photo credit: Maryland GovPics licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We have written a number of blog posts about football stadium noise, in both the professional and college game. Last weekend there were concerns that crowd noise at...
Photo credit: Sven van Bellen from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist A recent article by Tristin Hopper in Canada's National Post argues that motorcyclists are wrong when they say, “Loud pipes save lives.” I agree that aftermarket exhaust system modifications...
Photo credit: Joe Shlabotnik licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition During this summer season, New York City residents have been calling local representatives, the media, and 311 to...
Photo credit: Gustavo Fring from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When I sent one of my noise colleagues a draft post about the Discover article on how human noise overwhelms natural sea soundscapes for comment and correction, mentioning quiet...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’ve written in the past about noise in stadiums and arenas where college and professional sports are played because they are invariably too noisy. The world record for stadium noise, according to Guinness, was set at a...
Photo credit: Zichuan Han from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition I attended the virtual town hall meeting on August 18th that the New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Climate and Sustainability held in...