noise from lincoln place apts

i hear it. i've called 311 as well on "carl's place," they are not open late except for private parties...recently they were booming till 4.30am. no one in the city cares. we have to all continue to report the problems and not assume someone else will. maybe someday someone will care. arghh! till then i just lean out my window and tell them shut the f up!

somebody's just begging for an egging..

Subject: Noise

Why not move to the suburbs if noise bothers you so much? I live on Lincoln Place and have no problem with the music be blasted from all directions - its part of the blocks charm.

Subject: noise

No. I mean the same charm as being on a West Indian Island - you know... where many of Lincoln Place's long time residents are from.......I am under the impression that many who contribute this forum won't be happy until the neighborhood has been totally "white-washed" and has had any of its local character extinguished...leading to my original statement that they might be better suited for living in the suburbs as opposed to gentrifying a nieghborhood whose longtime residents are not terribly concerned with poeple playing loud music......

i wouldn't mind the loud music so much if they only had good speakers. that's the funny part, usually the bass is all crackily and it sounds like crap. i suppose they can't hear anything anymore and don't notice. teehee!

My next door neighbors (who are from Jamaica or Trinidad, I can't remember which) who are lovely whenever I've chatted with them - had a full-on drum circle in their apartment the other weekend, for several hours. Actually, they sounded quite good. If I was in a less tolerant mood I probably would have gone over and knocked and said "You guys sound great, but... are you going to be doing this for much longer? I'm trying to get some work done."

If noise issues are within your building, I think it's best to address people personally, if possible (at least to start there, 311 may have to come into play later). I had some upstairs neighbors who liked to pump it up on weekends, and I'd go up and ask nicely and sweetly as possible for them to turn it down - they usually would. I also walked down to my downstairs neighbors recently who were blaring their TV one night, and though they wouldn't open the door to speak to me (which made me a little sad), they did turn it down.

I think it comes down to people showing each other respect. It's easy to vilify people when they're at a distance, and you know you won't have to deal with them in person (same goes for responding to people's posts in places like this forum). I'm not articulating this well, but I think if there were more person-to-person contact about issues like this, more understanding/real compromises could be reached.

That being said, I do still keep my fingers poised on the 3-1-1 for those 4am salsa players.

Alot of these parties happen during the week too. Some people have to work early!
why is the nieghborhoods "character" dependent on noise pollution. that's pathetic.
311 callers unite!

dailyheights wrote:
Pounding bass audible from three blocks away called "ambient soul of vibrant living community"

Girl on internet spits ginger ale out her nose.

the only time i needed to ask anyone to turn their music down was at 4am in my apartment building...i shuffled downstairs in my bunny slippers...knocked on the slightly ajar door to what looked like a dorm party at NYU. about 12 stumbling hipsters, were wobbling about, plastic cups everywhere...there was a young, lanky, white boy in the corner of the room glaring at his ipod searching for the next loud dumb white boy song to blast through his new bose speakers he probably got from dad. i trotted right up and told him to turn it down, and have some respect. he turned it down...for about 10 minutes then it was back up. i live 2 floors above and could make out the lyrics. so i called 311, and stuffed a pillow over my head.

that's what i have to say in response to the previous posts...rudeness comes in many shades!

Gee that's great guys. well recently i was awoke by someone ringing my doorbell at 1230 a.m to complain to me that I was playing my guitar too late at night. Unfortuneatly the music was not coming from my apartment so she had woke me up for no reason. by the way-she is African American guitar player is european and I am Western European American aka "white boy". Racism is bad no matter who perpetuates it. Why did you even mention it in regards to noise/privacy? grow up.

When my wife and I lived in Fort Greene we called 311 numerous times and found that the response depended on the complaint. For example, they were great with trash. Whenever we called about garbage piling up, the Dept. of Sanitation always responded by the same day (with clean ups and summonses). When it came to noise, however, they basically ignored us.

Anonymous wrote: Gee that's great guys. well recently i was awoke by someone ringing my doorbell at 1230 a.m to complain to me that I was playing my guitar too late at night. Unfortuneatly the music was not coming from my apartment so she had woke me up for no reason. by the way-she is African American guitar player is european and I am Western European American aka "white boy". Racism is bad no matter who perpetuates it. Why did you even mention it in regards to noise/privacy? grow up.

if you read the other posts i was making a response with that exact point.