LIC gets massive alarm clock!
24 Jul
Bang! Bang! Bang!
It’s a piercing sound that can be heard miles away off 47th Ave. and it’s beginning to anger some neighbors. In fact, the banging can start as early as 7am and doesn’t stop until the late afternoon hours.
So what can we do? Well, with any urban renewal situation, the best thing to do is to wait a bit longer. Also, purchasing a nice set of noise reduction headphones and earplugs may help!
Hopefully they will be done with the pilings soon and they will start to go vertical. It will still be noisy, but much less than the pounding and the screeching noise of metal on metal.
I remember when they were doing this with the View. I worked from home then, but with the noise I worked from Communitea. It lasted for a few weeks
When they were building 63rd Street subway extension in Queensbridge, they used dynamite.
The regular noise with jack hammers was so loud, I could not talk to my wife from one end of the apartment to the other.
Well, yes but generally LIC is going upscale, and no longer having to suffer the indignities heaped upon the poor. The Mister Softee Ice Cream Truck, while still bad, is not as bad as it used to be.
The noise of construction is all over LIC. The Queens Plaza / Court Square area sounds like. John Cage opus.
I feel like leaving this neighborhood. The cement trucks come roaring down the streets and they are going to kill someone some day. The roads are being destroyed and our views are gone. the true charm of LIC is gone.
That’s probably what the Native Americans said hundreds of years ago… progress… good or bad – humans are like a virus.
The best we can do is try to get along knowing that economics will always trump empathy. Can we learn to make lemonade?
What do you recommend? Shall we set up drum circles around the metal hammers and jam to its beat? These real estate companies don’t care about the neighborhood. They just want profit. They are all sharks and are selling apartments that jut start leaking after a couple of years. How can you put up a high rise in just 5 months and expect I to be of any quality?
The true charm of a neighborhood has to come from its people. And in that vein, can I make a suggestion that everyone get their heads out of their smart phones now and then and say good morning or otherwise greet their neighbors? My goodness, a little warmth goes a long way people. Sometimes I feel like I’m living with cold, alien people who have been taken over by body snatchers.
Rarely do NYers great each other on the street. That just doesn’t happen in any major city in the US anymore. That era is long gone save some rural outposts.
Not sure that’s totally true. It’s whatever you make of it. I live in LIC and have become friends with several of my neighbors.
I try to give a nod to families hanging on their stoop, friendly looking people walking their dogs, etc. There’s a fine line, though. I don’t want to stop and have a full conversation with every person I pass on the street.
Anyway… my name is Andrew. I’m your neighbor. Hi! Very nice to meet you, Bobby and ?.