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Can't take the loud music anymore — Brooklynian

Can't take the loud music anymore

eve
eve
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights

Subject: Can't take the loud music anymore

I live nearish the corner of St. Marks and Underhill and when traffic stops at the red light there every few minutes, the noise level cranks up from the car radios thumping. It's totally unnerving. :shock:

I can't wait until it's cold and peeps start closing their car windows... :cry:

Comments

  • veggiequeen
    veggiequeen
    yup, par for the course for that intersection. but, rolled up windows don't help a whole lot.
  • eve
    eve
    I just barely made it through my first summer here. Seriously though, if I had any idea when I applied for the place last october I'd definately have reconsidered. Could give Showtime at the Appollo a run for the money. Daytime naps are out, my boyfriend can't record music, etc...oy

    Otherwise I do love it here. :wink:
  • restless native
    restless native
    If only you were around back when Rob Base and EZ Rock "It Takes Two" came out.. imagine 6 months straight of "Ah!.. Yea!.. Ah!.. Yea!.. " from every IROC, Mustang, and Cutlass Supreme in Brooklyn.
  • joseph11
    joseph11
    MOVE If you cant take a loud car you're in the wrong city. If you want quiet try the subs
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    joseph11 wrote: MOVE If you cant take a loud car you're in the wrong city. If you want quiet try the subs
    Subs are a lot like NYC -- cramped, bad air...

    Seriously, though, this line of reasoning is hardly original. It's tired and it's rude. New Yorkers like to kvetch about their surroundings. Does that mean *you* should move?

    Please read the site rules:
    http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3319
  • eve
    eve
    Nah, I was born a New Yorker and will probably check out as one. Yes, this just happens to be the noisiest of places I've lived (which makes me totally lose it after awhile), but the nabe definately makes up for that in many other ways. Thanks for the realty tip though.
  • smokin joe
    smokin joe
    don't know any great solutions for this particular problem but there are strategies that can help.

    for instance, years ago at my last apt. in manhattan, my second floor bedroom faced the street, where car alarms went off regularly and the garbage trucks came by around 6 am. since then, the one non-negotiable of any apartment i've taken has been a bedroom that does not face the street.

    just because we live here doesn't mean we have to take it.
  • vanilla
    vanilla
    PH is by far the loudest but also my favorite neighborhood i have lived in over my 12 or so years in nyc.
  • MOD
    MOD
    Restless Native wrote: If only you were around back when Rob Base and EZ Rock "It Takes Two" came out.. imagine 6 months straight of "Ah!.. Yea!.. Ah!.. Yea!.. " from every IROC, Mustang, and Cutlass Supreme in Brooklyn.
    I wasn't even living here yet and I had the same experience! :lol:
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    i hate dudes in cars who blast their speakers, thinking its cool and girls like it. god i hope they'll go deaf soon.
  • daver
    daver
    armchair_warrior wrote: i hate dudes in cars who blast their speakers, thinking its cool and girls like it. god i hope they'll go deaf soon.
    image
  • jimmylegs
    jimmylegs
    i've never been inside a car with one of those superbass systems, does anyone know if the music even sounds good? i only hear it from the outside, with their trunk vibrating in time making it sound totally muddy. i can only assume it sounds better inside?

    i dunno, Restless Native, considering the state of contemporary music, your vision of a Rob Base-filled world sounds pretty good to me. what's that guy doing these days anyway??
  • underthehill
    underthehill
    Gotta say, in the 5 years I've lived here, I rarely hear super-loud car stereos. My parents place in Bensonhurst is on a 4-lane street and the entire house shakes from the music blasting there.
  • daver
    daver
    I hear super loud car stereos around St Johns and Nostrand all the time, all hours of night and day. It doesn't bother me too much. Now the car ALARM going off for twenty minutes outside my window at 3am this morning, that pissed me off a bit.
  • vanilla
    vanilla
    jimmylegs wrote: i've never been inside a car with one of those superbass systems, does anyone know if the music even sounds good? i only hear it from the outside, with their trunk vibrating in time making it
    i think it's more about feeling good. i mean, an entire vibrating car, it's not so bad.

    but yeah, i think for some reason it may actually sound louder outside the car.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    i'm telling you guys its for the chicks!! blah i used to know some guy who had this shit installed in his car. he swears it gets the attention of the ladies LOL.

    plus he is one of those guys who yell and scream at the girls and swear it works in getting numbers too.
  • eve
    eve
    I remember noticing, when I last visited a friend who lives in the Boerum Hill area, that there were a few signs prohibiting loud honking/radio playing in the nabe. Can't remember the exact street now...
  • glazyeyes
    glazyeyes

    Subject: Boom cars

    I once got so fed up with a thumping black SUV that had double-parked outside our living room that I went onto the fire escape and pelted it with a raw egg as it drove away. Hit it right on the windshield.

    They stopped and got out, trying to figure out where it came from as my fiance and I giggled from the window.

    Very mature...I know.
  • dinkyla
    dinkyla

    Subject: How to make it stop

    Try yelling obscenities from your window while waving an Uzi.
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