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I get to hear jake brakes at literally any time of day (nearby paper mill runs 24/7), hourly freight trains (see paper mill) and police sirens slightly less oft
by dsfyu404ed 8y ago
I get to hear jake brakes at literally any time of day (nearby paper mill runs 24/7), hourly freight trains (see paper mill) and police sirens slightly less often (in case the paper mill didn't tip you off that I don't live somewhere that's highly gentrified). I'm not gonna feel bad about rich people that have to listen to heavy machinery during business hours no matter what day of the week it is.
I'd be more sympathetic if the constant noise was before 7am or after 9pm but the fact of the mater is that it's not so I'm not.
- wccrawford 8y agoI felt sorry for them until I got to the part where it said it was the best neighborhood in the city. If that's the case, then I'm sure they can all afford to sue the crap out of the people who are causing this, and they've got plenty of problems that have cost actual money to bring to court already.
- jshaqaw 8y agoThe Upper West Side was once a place for middle class intellectuals and artists. These neighbors are not necessarily rich and you need a legal violation to sue. Nothing in this article alleges that the construction is illegal - just very annoying.
- tallanvor 8y agoA violinist and a professor of philosophy are unlikely to fall under the category of rich people.
- bklyn11201 8y agoIf you earn $120k a year but happened to invest $100k in a brownstone or apartment many years ago that is now worth $3-5mm, you're rich!
- mcguire 8y agoIf you earn $120k/year, you're in the ~80th percentile in NYC and are making a bit over 2x the median income. https://statisticalatlas.com/place/New-York/New-York/Household-Income https://statisticalatlas.com/place/New-York/New-York/Househo...
- jdlyga 8y agoMost other places, yes. But Manhattan is a very high cost of living area.
- akgerber 8y agoI'm not rich! I don't have any money left after I spend all of it!
- sib 8y agoAgreed - there is a difference that people - especially populists - like to ignore between "rich" (wealth) and high earnings. If you have $10M in a checking account, but choose work at Starbucks as a barista because you like fake Italian names for coffee, you are rich. If you have no savings or other assets, but earn $150K/year, you are not rich.
- rmellow 8y agoWhy discriminate against rich people? Edit: Yes, my gut feeling was that I would be downvoted for asking this, but it's a genuine question. Thanks for correcting me HN </s>.
- mcguire 8y agoWould anyone care if they weren't rich people?
- ada1981 8y agoExactly. How about the impoverished little kids of NYC who have to deal with the noise of domestic abuse, gunshots, police sirens, etc.
- jonfw 8y agoI think a whole lot more people care about the impoverished, than those who live on this block.
- ada1981 8y agoAre you saying that the people caring for the impoverished is greater than the care for the people who live on the block? Or that the total number of people who care for the impoverished is a greater number than the number of people who live on the block? Seems both are true.
- avn2109 8y agoThis is not in the paper because of rich people. It's in the paper because the article's author lives near the jobsite and is self-interestedly complaining in print. "But along West 69th Street and stretches of West 68th Street (where I live and work and am also serenaded by the drilling, including at this very moment)..."
- rmellow 8y agoIt's still newsworthy regardless: I live in Toronto, where we have Winter season and Construction season. It's everywhere in the city and a noisy construction might just pop up anywhere, poor neighborhood or not. Dealing with construction noise is relevant to anyone in Toronto regardless of wealth. If the rich had any other way of dealing with it, I would like to see it in evidence. If the rich have as much recourse as the rest of us, I would like to see it in evidence. The article is relevant regardless of the people depicted being rich. They're humans like the rest of us and I think it's unfair to write them off without a second thought.
- mcguire 8y agoWhen I lived in Cedar Park, TX, a neighbor decided to dig a swimming pool. That area has about 18" of limestone 1-2' below the surface. The builders used a backhoe with a jackhammer arm. Fun times. Also, there was a limestone quarry three or four miles away. You could set your clocks: 10:00 and 2:00, the blasting shockwaves went through.
- PascLeRasc 8y agoWould you like to not have to hear that?
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoSure, but not enough to add 100k to my mortgage.