Photo credit: S. von Hoerst by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In late July, residents of two San Francisco apartments began losing sleep as the sounds of horn honking from a fleet of autonomous vehicles filled the parking lot their buildings face....
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Forest Hills concerts ongoing, despite lawsuit
Forest Hills, New York. Photo credit: Complicated from ATHENS, GEORGIA, USA, 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 Concertgoers are eagerly awaiting...
Major east coast cities struggle with noise pollution
Photo credit: Markus Spiske by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Writer Ricardo Kaulessar starts his article in northjersey.com by reporting on how a student soccer game...
New Yorkers trained to identify illegal noise levels
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When I speak to people in cities across the United States about their local noise by-laws, their major...
Providence attempts to crack down on noise
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...
Taylor Swift concert draws noise complaints
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Real Madrid’s Bernabeu Stadium recently received a multi-million dollar update that included a new roof....
D.C. bill aims at helicopter noise complaint data
Photo credit: Chait Goli by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies District of Columbia (D.C.) Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said that she hears daily from D.C. residents...
Reducing the ‘roar’ of aviation noise: better, but not enough
Photo credit: Oleksandr P by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In this Airways Magazine article, author Fabrizio Spicuglia informs us that aircraft noise has been reduced...
Buffalo man caught in legal battle with police — over a shout
Photo credit: Samson Katt by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In 2016, lawyer and Buffalo resident Tony Rupp shouted at a car in downtown Buffalo that had its lights off...