NYC About to Get Shushed

>upstairs neighbors from clomping around in what sound like >wooden clogs on hardwood floors very early in the morning

Actually NY law requires carpet covering 80% of the floor area, excluding kitchen and bathrooms. So complain to your landlord or coop/condo board about your idiot upstairs neighbors, and cite the law.

does this mean cars that park and blasts their stereos can now be ticketed? Hallelujah!

Garbage trucks 50 feet from residential means there will be more garbage pickup during the day when it will block cars and pedestrians alike. Garbage will be sitting on the sidewalk a bit more during the day (which isn't so good what with it being hot in the summer and all, and that can block sidewalks for pedestrians as well). Not to mention, fifty feet won't prevent someone who is sensitive from hearing/being woken by the garbage truck.

Of course, that's if the law is enforced.

{{{The New York Post reports that the stricter noise regulations are worrying Mr. Softee truck owners and drivers, whose livelihood is ensured by the incessant jingling siren call that beckons kids on summer vacation to their trucks. The Post's story quotes one ice cream distributor who predicted that the jingle-ban could melt ice cream sales by 30%.}}}

Good!!! Those Mr.Softee trucks sell overpriced, unhealthy crap anyway. The trucks are also filthy inside.

At least fast food has some type of Protein. These Ice Cream Products from the Mr. Softee trucks are just coloric shit filled with trans fats.

How can you prove how long someone's dog has been barking?

The city can come up with numerous ordinances - but how will they actually be enforced?

I live across the street from a rental car office. On the next block is a hospital. Directly in front of my building are signs that say "No Horn Blowing." When people return their cars on Sunday nights after a long weekend, there's lots of double-parking and a line of cars waiting to be returned. Traffic gets backed up all the way down the block. For some strange reason, drivers believe that leaning on their horns will make a difference. On a Sunday night, in a residential neighborhood, they are leaning on their horns. One does it, they all do it. I have run downstairs and yelled at the drivers, pointing out the "No Honking" sign to them. They usually react with surprise. After I go upstairs, they do it again.

Next to the rental care agency is a gym which is open until around 10pm. Many of its employees have friends come and pick them up after their shifts end, which is sometimes past 11pm or later. They sit outside in their cars and wait with their music blasting. Blasting! Then the gym has a truck come around and pick up huge bins of towels, using a lift-gate which makes an incredible amount of noise. The truck plays music and the workers often create traffic jams and argue (loudly) with drivers who want to pass. They used to come at 2 or 3am, but I complained so much (and I'm sure other of my neighbors have as well), that now they usually do it before 11pm. But it's not always the case. They spend about a half-hour doing this.

How about the bikers with their loud pipes in the summertime? They drive down my block to go to a bar around teh corner, and set off all the car alarms while doing so.

These events may not seem like much, and don't last long, but they are incredibly irritating and, over time, erode quality of life. I think the anti-noise ordinances appear on paper to be a good thing, but I sincerely doubt it will change anything. If I called the cops about a car honking their horn under my bedroom window, I'm sure they would laugh at me. Am I supposed to get their license plate numbers and file a complaint?

mocanlagunas: You don't line on 10th street do you?

Shouldn't the headline read: "NYC About to Become Just Like Every Other Sad Little Place in the World?"

Speaking of noise regulation, has anyone ever gotten a ticket for honking their horn on a block with those "No honking, $350 fine" signs? I always thought they were pretty useless.

#19 hit the nail on the head.

The city has become a haven for the trust-fund, midwest, average Joe that feels that the world revolves around them.

All the grit and charachter that made this city great is all but gone. When you talk about Anywhere, USA, add NYC to the list.

Hmm, actually, most lifelong New Yorkers will tell you how much more civilized (words of one of them, a friend of my mom's who grew up with her in the Bronx) it was back when they were growing up. This idea of the city as a gritty, tough place where only the strong survive is an out-of-towner's fantasy. We natives are just like anyone else - we don't like to be woken up by booming mariachi music in the early hours of Saturday morning. We gotta get our beauty sleep too, you know. Being a New Yorker doesn't mean you don't need sleep, and it doesn't mean you forfeit your right to a little peace and quiet in your own home.

That said, the next time those guys wake me up with their stupid tuba music, I'm putting the speakers in the window, cranking the Butthole Surfers, and leaving the house.

Well, I have only been here for 11 years out of my 29 on this earth...and I have to say I miss the olde days. When NY was full of NYers. It is the people that came here because of Friends and Sex and the City that make the need for these laws in the first place..