City Council tries to combat neighborhood noise

You’re brokering a deal in one of New York’s hippest neighborhoods the East Village or the Lower East Side, say. You’re about to close the deal when the would-be buyer visits the neighborhood at night and hears the amount of noise spilling onto sidewalks from clubs and bars. The deal falls through. Under a revision to the city’s noise code passed by the City Council on Wednesday, that scenario could theoretically, at least become an annoyance of the past. The revision, in fact, was prompted by a group of below-14th Street residents who complained to the city about the noise from bars and clubs in their home neighborhoods. more [Sun] and more [NYDN]