insomnia

Categories: Quality of Life

We are first time owners of a small apt in a Prewar Coop building. We love our apt, but have discovered that the noise from the apartments above and below is mind-boggling. We don’t expect silence by any means, but the floors are crazy leaky.

The specific difficulty of this situation is that the TV in the downstairs apt is on 24/7. It is loud enough that we can aften hear what channel they are watching.

I have asked twice (nicely) for the TVs to be lowered. There has been some improvement, but we still wake up to a subtle drone of TV noise at 4 am almost daily, despite running fans to cover the noise.

We’re going to talk to them again, but thinking ahead, what are the options between earplugs and selling to hearing-impaired friends? Do coop boards have jurisdiction over these kinds of things? Or are we just at the neighbor’s mercy here?

By squaredrive | 11/01/2008 1:05 AM