Photo credit: Karl Solano by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Nearly a year ago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that Manhattan’s Downtown Heliport will soon...
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PA lawmaker goes after noisy mufflers
Photo credit: jae p by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Pennsylvania residents should be pleased that a Philadelphia state legislator introduced a bill that will penalize...
Airport neighbors report restless nights of sleep
Photo credit: Stas Knop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of our posts already know that there are studies that link aircraft noise to loss of sleep, but I...
Vermont city trying to protect residents from F-35s
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Madelyn Brown, U.S. Department of Defense by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Residents in Chittenden County, Vermont, have been complaining for...
Teaching drivers (and cars) to honk judiciously
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....
Archer Aviation reveals LA vertiport sites
Photo credit: Roberto Nickson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The AIN Media Group website reported that Archer Aviation has announced planned vertiport sites in Los Angeles. Archer plans to launch an eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) network...
New Jersey Girl Scouts focus on noise pollution
Photo credit: Longxiang Qian by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The author of this article, Lori Comstock, informs us that people living in North Jersey have easy access...
Why NASCAR drivers put earplugs in their mouths
Photo credit: Alfred GF by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition To rephrase the headline of a recent article on the SportsRush website: Why do NASCAR drivers put their earplugs in their mouths before their ears? The answer is simple. It's to lubricate the...
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...