Sleep and the City
There was an article in the Huffington Post yesterday entitled "Does Anyone in NYC Sleep Well Anymore?"
My wife and I live near the corner of 2nd Avenue and 70th Street, about half a block away from the construction site of the new 2nd Avenue subway line. City ordinances permit construction only between the hours of 7AM and 6PM. This morning at 5:17AM several large construction trucks with the backup signals on came by apparently the express purpose of dropping several heavy metal plates in the middle of the street. When I say dropping, I mean DROPPING.
When I called the city agency responsible for controlling noise, I was advised that indeed city ordinances permit construction only between the hours of 7AM and 6PM unless the construction company really truly feels that it must make noise. In that case the city will give them a variance.
I was also told that the EPA had no control over noise if they had a variance.
New York City can be a great place to live, but it is a lousy place to try to get a good night's sleep.
Forgive the rant, just really tired this AM and more than a little ticked off.
Dr. Barsh
My wife and I live near the corner of 2nd Avenue and 70th Street, about half a block away from the construction site of the new 2nd Avenue subway line. City ordinances permit construction only between the hours of 7AM and 6PM. This morning at 5:17AM several large construction trucks with the backup signals on came by apparently the express purpose of dropping several heavy metal plates in the middle of the street. When I say dropping, I mean DROPPING.
When I called the city agency responsible for controlling noise, I was advised that indeed city ordinances permit construction only between the hours of 7AM and 6PM unless the construction company really truly feels that it must make noise. In that case the city will give them a variance.
I was also told that the EPA had no control over noise if they had a variance.
New York City can be a great place to live, but it is a lousy place to try to get a good night's sleep.
Forgive the rant, just really tired this AM and more than a little ticked off.
Dr. Barsh
posted by Dr. Larry Barsh at
7:55 AM
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