Photo credit: Lukas Kloeppel by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I wonder how many of our readers are aware that citizens in New York City can register...
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NYC bill would reduce noise from emergency sirens
Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies For years, some New York City residents have complained about the extremely intrusive sirens of...
New York politicians urge Gov. Hochul to end non-essential helicopter flights
Photo credit: Matthis Volquardsen by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Rep. Jerrold Nadler was joined by Representatives Dan Goldman, Adriano Espaillat, Yvette Clarke,...
It’s now official: noise is unwanted and/or harmful sound
Photo credit: ICBEN by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The standard definition of noise, adopted almost 100 years ago in the early days of acoustic science, is: "noise is unwanted sound." There are at least three problems with...
Congresswoman Meng seeks funding for ONAC
Photo credit: Thomas Altfather Good. Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Anti-noise groups, especially...
How the brain decodes speech in noisy rooms
Photo credit: Maurício Mascaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Neuroscience News reported on research published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology that looked into how the brain treats speech in a crowded room, depending on how easy that...
The City of Seville, Spain now requires Airbnbs to install noise meters
Photo credit: Emilio Sánchez by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Express, a British digital news site, reports that the city of Seville, Spain passed a new law requiring noise meters to be installed in all short-term rental apartments. In some...
Providence, RI is trying to crack down on loud noise
Photo credit: Kenneth C. Zirkel licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Providence Journal reports that Mayor Brett Smiley is trying to deal with that city’s non-enforcement of its existing sound ordinance. He includes funds for...
Boat noise temporarily deafens squid
Photo credit: Pascal Ingelrest by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here I am again writing about the dangers of noise to a species, in this case squid, other than human...