Photo credit: Fernando Gonzalez by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies While New York City Council considers a bill to restrict non-essential flights in the city, state bills...
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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...
Making life in NYC less noisy
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Gothamist has an excellent article about noise in New York City, quoting our noise colleague Arline Bronzaft. As reporter Catalina Gonella writes, “just because the city never sleeps...
Reduced hours for NYC’s tourist helicopter tours
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 Stop the Chop NY/NJ, a nonprofit working to ban all nonessential helicopter flights over New York City, the...
New York City approves bills meant to decrease noise pollution
Photo credit: Alex Azabache by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The New York City Council has introduced four new policies, under the Stop the Noise Act, to address the...
Restaurant noise is still a problem in New York City
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition New York Post writer Steve Cuozzo recently reported on restaurant noise in New York City, claiming that restaurants are now "noisier than ever." From published reports, we know restaurants...
New Yorkers push to lower the volume at local stadium
Photo credit: Ed, licensed under CC BY 2.0 DEED by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York has been a presence in the community for the...
Will noise cameras protect all New Yorkers?
Photo credit: Kelly by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As the New York City Council debates extending its pilot project of installing noise cameras to detect loud...
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...