Gothamist: Driven to Distraction By Construction

hugomania

Tue, 29 May 2007 07:42:09 -0500

Off hours construction is a given in FiDi, with absolutely no recourse, it seems. But what really gets us is the loud-as-heck noise of powerwashing machines that Wall Street building owners use at least once a month. They seem always to start after work hours and go on until 6am or so. Can anything be done to stop that???? Seems building owners/management, if not the city itself, refuse to recognize that half these Wall St buildings now are residences.

TCR

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:28:08 -0500

A week or so ago they were jackhammering on 8th Street and Fifth Ave at 11:30 at night. I remember the time because I couldn't hear the Colbert Report. One more reason to hate construction noise!

Gwin

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:30:26 -0500

I haven't noticed increased construction noise, but rather a huge uptick in the number of construction vehicles going past my apartment on lower Allen Street. We're talking about those dump trucks with exhaust pipes up front that make a HUGE amount of noise when they downshift. It's absolutely deafening, and they go by at all hours of the day and night.

danno

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:47:29 -0500

Well didn't wasn't it construction noise that started the deadly altercation between Adrienne Shelly and a construction worker? You'd think the City would be a little more on top of this stuff especially when fines can be a revenue generating source of income.

Ace

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:05:43 -0500

That much advil will destroy your kidneys.

red tape

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:01:41 -0500

311 is great but they just transfer you to the appropriate government department so then you're at the mercy of that agency's effectiveness/efficiency. I called to complain about diesel smoke belching out of a rootop generator below my apartment window that was filling my old place with blue smoke. It took a few weeks for someone from the city to come out to check on it. Fortunately the generator only came on intermittently.

Ramble

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:53:07 -0500

Apologies if this turns into a double post: I've had to use 311 several times, and had a good experience with it each time.

Ramble

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:52:14 -0500

I've had to use 311 several times, and had a good experience with it each time.

Spud Spudly

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:38:11 -0500

As usual the Post is wrong (at least partially) on this one. It may take the Buildings Department 40 days to respond to one of these complaints, but the Department of Environmental Protection will respond to a noise complaint in less than a week. The dumb reporter doesn't mention that.

me

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:35:31 -0500

speaking of 311 (and this may be a good story idea for g'ist), does anyone have any positive experience with this service? i've never had to call but my perception whenever i hear the mayor or some city official on wnyc say "call 311" is that any complaint or concern would just fall into this giant black hole of bureaucracy and ineptitude.