helicopters
You’ve probably realized the past week and a half has been a busy one for news stories in our area. Some (like the fire at 465 Ocean Avenue [/blog/crime/fire-at-465-ocean-avenue] that injured four, the two PS 315 students accused of poisoning their teacher [/blog/crime/two-students-arrested-for-allegedly-poisoning-teacher-at-ps-315], and yesterday’
9th Street
Ever wondered what New York life was like in the earlier part of the 20th Century? The Roaring Twenties [http://vectorsdev.usc.edu/NYCsound/777b.html], a new collaboration between historian/author [http://www.amazon.com/The-Soundscape-Modernity-Architectural-Acoustics/dp/0262701065] /Princeton professor [http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?
alarms
A neighbor who lives near Ocean and Foster Avenues has been waking up to an alarm recently, and not the one she sets to get to work on time. She says: > We face those beautiful Victorian houses which make the charm of our neighborhood–except that one of them
bar
Planning on basking in the warm weather at Greenwood Park [http://greenwoodparkbk.com/blog/] (555 7th Avenue, between 19th and 20th Street)? You might want to take notice of the bar’s newly posted rules, spotted by neighbor Chris Schneider. In addition to the general rules you’ll recognize from
interactive
Yesterday, we brought you WNYC’s top ten lists of neighborhood dog names [/blog/animals/where-do-neighborhood-pups-rank-on-wnycs-dogs-of-nyc]. Today, we bring you Gothamist’s pooch poop report. That’s right, ladies and gents, Gothamist has a snazzy interactive map [http://gothamist.com/2013/01/24/interactive_map_what_neighborhoods.php] that shows,
311
Ditmas Park’s 11226 zip code filed 1,352 noise complaints with 311 in 2012, reported Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2012/12/14/williamsburg_was_nycs_noisiest_neig.php]and BK Magazine [http://www.bkmag.com/BrooklynAbridged/archives/2012/12/20/the-5-noisiest-brooklyn-neighborhoods?showFullText=true] . That makes it the third noisiest
Complaints
It’s been a while [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/8/33_08_sb_airplane_noise.html] since anyone in the area complained of noisy plane routes, but it seems like it’s picking up again. From Ryan McCarthy [http://counterparties.com/] on Twitter [https://twitter.com/mccarthyryanj]: https:
Calls to Prayer
A Kensington neighbor has created an online petition [http://www.change.org/petitions/rectify-noise-code-laws-in-nyc-to-include-religious-institutions] to request that City Council revise the NYC noise code laws [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/noise_code_guide.pdf] to include religious institutions. Maggie Tobin writes: > Because our policy makers have failed
buses
[<object width=]One person seems to know why New York is the city that never sleeps. IMASCORPIO25 has posted the above video, apparently shot in Bensonhurst, on YouTube. In the video, loud buses, sneezing passerby and other assorted street noises show why sleeping in our metropolis can be so