Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies How painful it must have been for the parents of Albie Collins to have learned that their child had moderate...
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Arline Bronzaft on International Noise Awareness Day (INAD)
Photo credit: GEORGE DESIPRIS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft, professor emerita at City University of New York, wrote about the history of International Noise Awareness Day (INAD) on the occasion of its 29th...
Kansas Supreme Court rules in favor of loud protestor
Photo credit: Amine M'siouri by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As someone who has participated in marches and demonstrations across New York City, especially years ago...
Testify to ban nonessential helicopter flights in NY/NJ
Photo credit: Valery Anatolievich by Abby Harrison, Editor, Quiet Communities New York City Council will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 16 on bills to ban nonessential helicopter traffic at NYC-run heliports, as well as other helicopter-issue bills...
Dutch court rules that airport must reduce noise pollution
Photo credit: Amin, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies It's no surprise to read in the first paragraph of this AP article that the Dutch...
Japanese taxpayers foot American military’s noise bill
Photo credit: Somchai Kongkamsri by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies How much has it cost the Japanese government to host American troops at five United States military...
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...
The sound of gunfire near school? Just another day in Cranston
Photo credit: Element5 Digital by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies For most American students, the prospect of hearing gun shots rings through the hallways or around...