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October 19, 2007
Cell Phone Antennas and rooftop installations
A while back I remember reading a NYT article about a Park Slope co-op's outcry over the installation of cell phone towers on their co-op's rooftop. It seems the Board decided this without consulting shareholders.
Having read this article, I was wonder how people feel about this issue today. Would you be comfortable living in a building that leased its rooftop for cell phone tower use? What possible implications, other than questions on health, can arise?
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I'd fight it like hell. Who knows what damage these towers do?
Posted by: guest at October 20, 2007 7:27 AM
I would absolutely NOT feel comfortable with cell phone towers on my co-op's roof.
Aside from being unsightly, who really knows what the negative health effects of living in close proximity to these things could be.
Posted by: bren at October 20, 2007 2:34 PM
I assume neither of you use cellphones?
Posted by: Putnamdenizen at October 20, 2007 5:05 PM
Putnamdenizen, the comparison with the use of cell phones doesn't quite compute with me. I basically have the power to turn my cell phone on and off at any given point, and it's not strapped to my head 24/7. By the way, the same applies to the microwave. Unfortunately, I wouldn't have the same power to pull the lever on the cell phone tower whenever I wish to turn it off. It remains on continuously for whatever lease period is agreed to...this may be up to 20 years! Imagine having your phone attached to your head continuously for 20 years.
Posted by: Stanford at October 20, 2007 11:03 PM
Would like to know if you have any evidence that cell phone tower waves are damaging (serious question.) From all I've read, emf doing anything bad is just rumor. But could be wrong.
Posted by: cmu at October 21, 2007 10:16 AM
Evidence has been inconclusive at best, but that does not eliminate that a doubt does indeed exist, and that medical authorities admit to that doubt. This doubt alone makes me uncomfortable, and is enough to tell me that money earned from this type of project is not worth the risk for me or my family.
Posted by: Stanford at October 21, 2007 10:47 AM
How much money is the building collecting for this? Might be worth it.
Posted by: guest at October 21, 2007 8:31 PM
I don't own a cell phone because I think holding a powerful radio transmitter half an inch from my brain everyday is about as smart as holding an incandescent light-bulb there. But I've lived under and next to cell phone towers and it never bothered me. The closest one ever was to me when in my apartment was 30 meters and pointed away (which they generally are).
I still don't think this should be done without consulting the co-op members. I lived in a co-op where they sold antenna rights; while I was far from the antennas, one of the antennas, which were on a low attached building, pointed straight into someone's apartment. If the cell-phone antenna planner knew their radiation maps would be shown at a co-op meeting they wouldn't have done this. It was done out of sheer lazyness, the 90 year old man living there did not need a dedicated cell-phone antenna.
Posted by: danielk at October 21, 2007 8:34 PM
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