1010 WINS has an amusing story about Upper East Side resident Pat Minietta's quest for a decent night of sleep—and how the MTA thwarts it: "Pat Minietta says he is often jolted awake by a sound that he describes as 'a bird or chicken being strangled.' A Metropolitan Transportation Authority supervisor says the sound is actually an alarm which is used to scare away pigeons. He says without it the bus depot at 100th Street and Lexington Avenue would be covered in bird droppings." To which Minietta suggests that the MTA trade up to a supersonic alarm.