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that *(*^^!! NOISE!!! — Brooklynian

that *(*^^!! NOISE!!!

lilbangladesh
lilbangladesh
edited November -1 in Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
It sounds like someone is having a loud outdoor concert! With bongos!!! The last time this happened (August), it went on ALL NIGHT LONG despite my many desperate calls to 311. Because of the way my apartment is situated, I have no way of telling where exactly the noise is coming from. It could be coming from next door, St. John's Place or many blocks away. I tried calling the precinct directly, and that seemed to be a more effective response. I'm pretty sure they've sent a car out, because it will get real quiet for about 5 or ten minutes and then it will start up again full blast.

I'm pretty desperate. This is my ONLY night to catch up on sleep. I should have been asleep HOURS ago, but I got caught up at work and instead of working 6 hours, I ended up having to work 10. For the past six weeks, I've been having to work overtime at my job AND work on this freelance project that had ridiculous impossible-to-meet deadlines. I am EXTRAORDINARILY sleep-deprived, having worked about 17 hours a day for the past six weeks. I was able to finally finish the freelance project yesterday, but now my job is demanding WAY more overtime. So I will not have any more time to sleep for this next week. Tonight is it and as it is, I'm up at 2 AM posting this and I actually have to get up relatively early in the morning.

The irony is that had I been able to be home and asleep by 7 or 8 PM like I planned, I'd still be asleep. Once I'm asleep, a nuclear bomb can't wake me up. I just need it relatively quiet in order to get to sleep. Instead, I get home about midnight and it's so noisy, I can't hear my tv.

Does anyone know where this noise is coming from, and what the hell is the occasion that people feel that they have a perfect right to keep up hard-working people with their bongos all night long? I'm basically at a point of non-functioning and I don't know how I'm going to get through the next week with maybe only six hours of sleep under my belt (after six weeks of maybe four hours a night).

Comments

  • funkytoot
    funkytoot
    Here's how I do it (even while I lived up in Harlem ON Amsterdam Avenue ABOVE a 24hr Dominican Barber Shop):

    Sleep mask
    Ear plugs
    Melatonin

    When taking Melatonin make sure that the room is completely dark (light prohibits the production of Melatonin from the pineal gland). It's completely natural, and you won't have drowsiness the next morning. Plus it's an antioxidant source.

    Here's a quick question (since the majority of your life is spent working grueling hours): are you living to work, or working to live? Sounds like you need to make yourself a priority again and take care of it.
  • cristina
    cristina
    Talk to your neighbours, they are probably suffering as much as you. Tell them to call 311, the more poeple call, the better response you will get. Get some information about how to file a complaint at "small-claims court", I know there are some standards you CANNOT violate. In NY a first noise infraction brings a $3000 fine, the second, $ 6000. If you can get support from your neighbours and you guys decide to take some legal action, you could get some results. Otherwise, it's a lost battle...
    Good luck!!!
  • mantic
    mantic
    Like funkytoot said.. get some earplugs.
    You live in the city not the country.
    Unless you can pinpoint the source and it is viable if and when the police do arrive, your knocking a the door with nobody home.
    3 runs to a bogus sound complaint and they ignore it from there on.
  • primespider
    primespider
    Please, can you describe your freelance project?
  • parkplace
    parkplace
    I can't use earplugs - they keep me awake.

    Instead, I use a white noise machine, and definitely recommend it. Or run a fan on high pointing away from you if you don't want it blowing on you. I'm amazed at how much noise this can block out around here.
  • bluemagoo
    bluemagoo
    You have to locate the exact address of the noise problem when you report it to 311 and your local precinct. If you can't give them that info you are wasting your time calling anything in and you should keep a log containing the 311 complaint numbers for future reference. When it happens again tell 311 & the precinct it's a chronic problem. Contacting you local pols may help but again you need documentation that it's a chronic problem. Sending complaints online at nyc.gov to the mayor & police commissioner may also trigger a response from your precinct commander who may have their quality of life officer contact you.
  • lo kee
    lo kee
    CRISTINA wrote: Talk to your neighbours, they are probably suffering as much as you. Tell them to call 311, the more poeple call, the better response you will get. Get some information about how to file a complaint at "small-claims court", I know there are some standards you CANNOT violate. In NY a first noise infraction brings a $3000 fine, the second, $ 6000. If you can get support from your neighbours and you guys decide to take some legal action, you could get some results. Otherwise, it's a lost battle...
    Good luck!!!
    The plaintiff for a violation of a city code or regulation is normally the city itself, not an private individual. Any appliacable monetary sanctions are paid to the city, not the person who calls in the complaint.

    Unless they wrote the code/regulation to give private individuals standingm which I doubt.

    You could, however, file a complaint alleging nuisance but you are going to have a hard time proving damages. I know that sounds ridic to someone going through what you are going through but from a legal standpoint you will have a problem.
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