Sound and the city

Half of all 311 noise calls are about your neighbors

Residential noise — music, parties, banging, a television through the wall — accounts for half of every 311 noise complaint in the city. Street and sidewalk noise is a distant second at 24%. Helicopters are under 3%.

—Total complaints

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—Average per day

Source: New York City 311 Service Requests (dataset erm2-nwe9), filtered to complaint types beginning with "Noise." Counts cover service requests created —. "Construction, equipment" is the bare "Noise" complaint type, which 311 routes to the Department of Environmental Protection; it covers construction, machinery and similar sources. One address in the Bronx that generates a physically impossible volume of complaints is excluded as a reporting artifact; see the methodology.

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