Photo credit: Ed Yourdon licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That New York City continues to be noisy is underscored by the number of noise...
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New York City has begun to issue tickets to owners of noisy cars
Photo credit: Deane Bayas by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In earlier posts I told readers that cities in the U.S., Canada and Europe were carrying out pilot tests on...
NYC considers mandating new emergency 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 Councilwoman Gale Brewer and several of her New York City councilmembers have introduced a...
The Quiet Coalition’s “Dear Abby” gives advice on noise problems
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition No, The Quiet Coalition doesn’t really have an advice columnist named Dear Abby, but it does have pioneering noise researcher and activist Arline Bronzaft, PhD, Professor Emerita at the City...
NYC pilot testing noise cameras
Photo credit: Craig Adderley from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Add New York City to the cities abroad that are pilot testing noise cameras to capture loud...
France starts noise camera trials
Photo credit: Labskiii from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Emma Morgan, The Connexion, writes that in rural France the first “fixed sound-level radar camera...
A short course about noise
Photo credit: Gabriel Hohol from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague, and Quiet Coalition co-founder, Arline Bronzaft, PhD, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, will be giving a 3-session online course about noise...
New York City addresses environmental justice
Photo credit: Zichuan Han from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition I attended the virtual town hall meeting on August 18th that the New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Climate and Sustainability held in...
New York City to purchase electric refuse trucks
Photo courtesy of Mack Trucks by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Sami Grover, Treehugger, writes that the New York City’s Sanitation Department has been testing a fully electric refuse vehicle this past...