Same here. Life-long native New Yorker, and I've never seen anything like it. My building has many AirBnB guests (my floor alone has 2 apartments that have diff

Same here. Life-long native New Yorker, and I've never seen anything like it. My building has many AirBnB guests (my floor alone has 2 apartments that have different guests all the time.) Overall it doesn't impact my personal experience, since the neighborhood I live in is fairly noisy already (LES) and I don't really care unless they blast music. That all said, I think there are things that AirBnB can do to mitigate all this: standards enforcement division. A 24-hour service where you call them up, make your complaint, and they send over some big scary people to knock on the offender's door and ask them to "turn it down" or "pick up their garbage." Local government offices and the landlords themselves can't respond quickly enough (the former can't/won't send someone there at 2AM and it'd be pretty tough to get the latter to run over to your apartment for this sort of thing.) Basically AirBnB police. There are steps that can be taken that don't involve the local government or housing authority; I think AirBnB would be wise to take them.