It's a little after midnight.
I hear a very loud crash. It sounds like someone has picked up an empty large barrel and slammed it onto the street.
Some crazy night wanderer I think.
But then it happens again. And again. And again.
I throw on my sneakers and a coat and go outside.
There I find a construction site in the middle of 79th and First.
There is a bulldozer that is lifting slabs of concrete and dropping them onto the street. The sound is deafening. The workmen say they will be there all night.
How can it possibly be that someone at DOT thinks that keeping an entire neighborhood awake makes more sense than to close off traffic to a small section of 79th Street during the day?
I call 3-1-1, hoping I'm not the only one.
It takes a while to get someone. I register my complaint. I am told someone will respond within 14 days — such a comforting response.
There are very things about New York that I don't like. This is one of them.
I totally sympathize. As someone who has withstood earsplitting noise...and I mean noise that sounds like it is pounding inside the core of your brain...(from the 5 yearly building rehab we all have to endure)... I don't know what can be done. Living in my Glenwood building has been so bad...and I mean for 14 months...that the building designated several empty apartments which they decorated....as safe spaces for tenants to retreat to when the noise was so loud tenants could not bear to be in their apartments during the day. So little solace, but count yourself lucky you only had to suffer for a night. Quality of life seems not to count as any reason for anyone to do anything!
ReplyDeleteOMG. My one-night annoyance pales in comparison.
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