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...
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Noisy offices take a toll on our well-being
Photo credit: CoWomen by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In this article on Phys Org, a science and research news aggregator, Oluremi (Remi) Ayoko writes about the...
Brooklyn Bridge Park residents seek quieter public bathrooms
Photo credit: Airam Dato-on by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our readers may find this post unusual and interesting. The City reported last week that a couple living in...
Noise cameras coming to the Upper West Side
Photo credit: Momos, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Upper West Side of Manhattan registered as many as 25,000 noise complaints to 311...
UK drivers want noise cameras to catch and fine loud motorists
Photo credit: Omar Ramadan by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of the Quiet Coalition blog know that Quiet Communities has followed the introduction of noise...
‘Silence is golden,’ says Irish citizen
Photo credit: Steven Hylands by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The title of this article by Irishman Trevor Laffan is, “Both in the streets and the home…silence is...
How do I block out annoying sounds from my noisy neighborhood?
Photo credit: Vlad Fonsark by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "How do I block out annoying sounds from my noisy neighborhood?" That’s the question posed and answered on The New York Times’ product review site Wirecutter, in response from someone who...
Pickleball noise is disruptive to nearby residents
Photo credit: TheVillagesFL, licensed by CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies For nearly a decade and a half, Mary McKee loved the tranquility her home...
Loudoun County works to mitigate noise from Dulles Airport
Photo credit: Joe Ravi, licensed by CC-BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The headline of the article “FAA Still Silent on Dulles Airport Noise Concerns”...