Photo credit: Christopher Eliot by Christopher Eliot Protesters organized by Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere held a peaceful gathering outside the Massachusetts State House on Oct. 2. Sen. Michael Barrett gave an overview of the attempts to stop the...
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In harms way
Photo credit: Myburgh Roux by Elaine Miller, Founder, Plane Sense 4 Long Island, Member, Quiet American Skies Thousands and thousands of planes fly over communities that have the great misfortune of living under horrendous NextGen flight paths. The “superhighways in...
New York City legislators propose seven noise bills
Photo credit: jimmy teoh by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies An earlier blog post informed our readers that the New York City Council was going to introduce two bills that...
A loud A.C. unit at one U.N. member’s building is disturbing neighbors
Photo credit: Xabi Oregi by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Andrew Keh’s New York Times article on Sept. 25 reminds readers how difficult it was a couple of weeks ago for...
Why you should always study in silence
Photo credit: RF._.studio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over forty years ago, I conducted two studies on the impact of noise on children’s learning. In the first...
New York City Council introduces two noise-related bills
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...
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...
Bloomberg says restaurant noise means NYC is ‘back’
Photo credit: Following NYC by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article on Grub Street, an online food blog by New York Magazine, portrays former New York City Mayor...
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...