Closing Bell: Keeping Quiet in Park Slope
Park Slope isn’t known as a particularly noisy neighborhood, aside from the normal mixture of traffic, sirens, screaming school kids. But some folks are seriously bothered by the rumble of low-flying planes. So bothered, in fact, that they’ve created the group Brooklyn Against Aircraft Noise, replete with a signable petition and a call to spread…
Park Slope isn’t known as a particularly noisy neighborhood, aside from the normal mixture of traffic, sirens, screaming school kids. But some folks are seriously bothered by the rumble of low-flying planes. So bothered, in fact, that they’ve created the group Brooklyn Against Aircraft Noise, replete with a signable petition and a call to spread the flying routes out evenly, so no one neighborhood will be targeted with blaring engines…not to mention that blue ice.
Photo by judester1213.
sixtyyearsandcounting, that’s very sad.
We used to live in Park Slope, we still go there all the time shopping or doctor appts, etc etc, and I have never ever noticed airplane noise and if I ever did it was not at a problem level. As Lechecal and others are saying, other parts of NYC and the country have a much bigger problem with noise from planes, and it’s true the bus and traffic noise in Park Slope is way louder than any planes.
sixyearsandcounting,
I am so sorry to hear that. I imagine this story rattled a bit. Though many years, that kind of loss never really diminishes.
On another note I am amused with watching the retorts to this story come rolling in about the “pampered, spoiled, self-entitled, rich, parents of Park Slope who have nothing, NOTHING better to do with their time”. How children fit into this, I don’t know, but it had to happen.
I agree with kip216 that buses are way noisier and more annoying than living under the flight path (I also live in PS). But this is the city and it’s noisy. I grew up across the street from a firehouse and spent summers in Rockaway, right under the Concorde flight path. It just made me a very sound sleeper.
BTW, cool photo.
I always find it reassuring after being away for awhile to look out the airplane window on the return flight and see that my house is still standing. We live directly under the flight path. I used to know the timing pattern… It was something like every 9 minutes. Every once in awhile we”ll get a low flyer that rattles the windows, but other than that it’s not bothersome. The week after 9/11 when everything was grounded, that was eerily quiet. That’s when you notice the sound, in it’s absence.
How about asking the city to actually put break pads on city buses!? My apartment overlooks Dekalb avenue in Clinton Hill, and I can’t even open up my window in the summer because of the horrible screeching of bus breaks every 5 minutes.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a plane going overhead while inside my building – and the flight path is almost directly overhead.
Back-to-the-wall busy with work Wasder, and traveling a lot… that and I’ve sort of decided to walk away from my apartment search for the next year or so. I stop by every few days or so, but haven’t really had much to say.
superb photo…. i love the lights of the planes seen from my deck in Boerum Hill coming on the southern approach to LAG… however, if i could hear them i would feel differently
Bed-Stuy and CH folks have complained about this route for years…..
lechacal–where have you been hiding yourself?
You have to be kidding me. We are on the glide path folks, where the engines are very quiet. Airplane traffic is so much less noisy than street traffic in the slope. Get over it. Try living in northern queens or in the bronx, where you can listen to takeoff noise. Now that’s real noise pollution.
Pampered litte NIMBYish jerkoffs.