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...
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Noise cameras coming to the Upper West Side
Photo credit: Momos, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Upper West Side of Manhattan registered as many as 25,000 noise complaints to 311...
New York City councilmembers seek less intrusive sirens
Photo credit: David Vincent Villavicencio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Those who have read my posts on the Quiet Coalition know that I often say there are a number...
The noise queen of New York City
Photo credit: Arline Bronzaft by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition New York Magazine’s Curbed recently published a wonderful interview with the Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft, PhD, dubbing her “the de facto noise queen of New York City.” That’s quite an...
New York City resident issues noise complaints
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...
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,...
Noise complaints take deadly turn
Photo credit: Kat Wilcox by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Quiet Coalition readers are well aware of the harmful effects of noise on our mental and physical health....
Open Streets program spurred sidewalk noise complaints
Photo credit: New York City Department of Transportation by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Open Streets is a program that uses urban spaces for physical activity and...