Park Slope NIMBYS have a new enemy: the FAA. New data validates local's fears that the air up there has become too cluttered with plane traffic, which is threatening their mental health! One resident told the Brooklyn Paper, “I play loud music in the house or otherwise I’ll go insane.”
The new data received by an "anti-noise activist" under the Freedom of Information Act shows that since 2006, low-altitude traffic over the Slope has gone up a whopping 52%.
Another local activist, Josie Williams, even bought a decibel meter to measure the noise levels, which at times exceed 70 decibels over Prospect Park West and 5th Street. That's a level similar to the what a vacuum cleaner or traffic would make. Welcome to New York?
Allegedly the increase in air traffic is a result of “airspace redesign” initiated by the FAA three years ago in the hopes of alleviating delays at LaGuardia Airport—it has resulted in planes flying over the neighborhood every few minutes. But what can you do when silence is on the verge of extinction?
