Noisy Neighbors Outdoors
Does anyone have neighbors who play music outdoors in the garden when they are not outside themselves? For an hour or several, loud. Can anything be done about it? Asking them to stop has not made an impact.
Does anyone have neighbors who play music outdoors in the garden when they are not outside themselves? For an hour or several, loud. Can anything be done about it? Asking them to stop has not made an impact.
The argument that if you live in a city you have to just shut up and put up with all kinds of noise is nonsense. No logic to it whatsoever. I have said it before and I’ll say it again:
If you want to play loud music YOU ARE THE ONES WHO SHOULD BE LIVING IN THE SUBURBS. You know, where you don’t have loads of other human beings living so closely to you. People with babies who need to sleep. People who work long hard hours and are desperately trying to get some rest whether they sleep during the night or during the day. People whose offices are at home. NYC has a huge number of freelancers who work from home, especially Brooklyn. Students who are trying to study so they do well at school and make something of their lives. Studies prove kids growing up in noisy homes have low test scores. And you have not one ounce of consideration for these people. Nice.
Living in close proximity to others means exactly the opposite of what you sociopathic jerks are saying — it means being MORE considerate. Why are you even in NYC if you hate people so much? I’ll say the same thing to you in response — you are really living in the wrong place. Go live on a farm. Seriously.
my vote is to drown out their sounds with polkas.
By day 3, they’ll get the hint….
Plus there will be a block full of children associating polka with fun in the summer.
Hmmm…Mopar, I haven’t had that experience with 311. What they do anyway is just call the Precinct and they stop by to check out the noise if they have nothing more pressing to do.
I also called 311 once because of persistant blasting of music out of a neighbor’s house. One of the tenants used to relax by rigging up his sound system and making the walls vibrate. He opened up his windows and shared his love for hip hop with the world (He was a dj). My fillings were vibrating inside my head it was so loud. It was also late at night.
Any way, I tried calling the landlord to ask them to get the guy to lower it in the past but they never returned calls, so this one time, I called 311 and the police came next door. No way was I going over there – it was really late. The owners were OUTRAGED that I would resort to calling THE POLICE on their tenant. The tenant WAS HEARTBROKEN that I resorted to this measure. DESTROYED that a neighbor would resort to calling the authorities.
Well, bottom line, the tenant and his wife (who I got to know and like – they also gave me their number which I didn’t have) worked it out, they forgave me, I forgave them, Kumbaya, etc. But the owners still hate my guts.
So there you have it.
Probably best to just go over there and talk to them.
Then get a f@#king powersprayer. Next choice 311.
The 311 route will end up taking a very long time. We had a very valid noise complaint about one of our buildings in the East Village. An indoor AC unit was generating some sort of synchronized resonant frequency with the risers in the building next door. Every time we turned the AC on ,mostly M-F 9 to 5,there would be this really loud high-pitched squeal in all of the 6 story buildng’s apartments, including that of some folks who worked nights. Definitely an egregious violation…. Well the building super didn’t tell us and by the time we got a notice from DEP it was something like 18 months later. We quickly installed new springs and neoprene separators and resolved the problem but I felt bad for all that time….
And it’s not clear from your posting if the noise levels exceed. You could solve your problem with your own noise. Fans, tv, other music. Whatever it takes to keep you from fixating on your neighbor…
How does calling 311 fix anything? They won’t answer the phone.
MALY! Laughing out loud with water spray. THAT was funny. And I agree with you 100%.
um, Jaguar, does it make a difference if the people asking for a little consideration have lived in their house for decades and it’s the noisy people who are the newly arrived yuppie spawn from the burbs? It really comes down to awareness of others and reasonable compromise.
Often the same people (not saying it’s anyone on this thread) defending the right to party in the yard all night are the first to yell “move to the suburbs” at families whose kids are making too much floor-noise for their downstairs neighbors’ liking. It’s all a matter of perspective.
1- Noise is by far the #1 complaint in the whole city, not just newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood.
2- Read the question: she’s already asked the neighbors.
3- Noise regulation are not just for nighttime. There are limits to how much noise you can make 24/7.
4- I fail to see how it can be deemed reasonable to have continuous loud music, amplified outside, while you’re inside. It’s beyond idiotic. Kids playing, fine, parties, fine. Music on speakers outside for hours, while you’re inside? Rude.
Some of you people sound like you’ve been raised in a barn. Do you lick all the shrimps at cocktail parties? Bring your sardine casseroles to reheat in the office microwave? Decide to go chemical-free during a heat wave? Ever wonder why people roll their eyes when you approach? That’s right, you’re an inconsiderate, self-absorbed lout, not particularly adapted to dense environment. There’s always Wyoming.
Living here since 1988 proves what exactly? Asking someone to cease and desist from activities for which they may be within thier rights to exercise and then being ignored proves what else exactly? The entire post is predicated on the assumption you believe the interpetation.