In a modern well built nyc apartment you hear basically no street noise. In older construction street noise can be so bad I’ve bent over backwards and rearrang

In a modern well built nyc apartment you hear basically no street noise. In older construction street noise can be so bad I’ve bent over backwards and rearranged my apartment to make my bedroom quiet. That said, this is tilting at windmills. The majority of awful street noise is people being loud. It is people arguing, people being drunk, and frustrated drivers leaning in their horns. This sucks, and I wish they wouldn’t do it. I have gone outside my house and explained to frustrated drivers what impact they are having on everyone who lives where they are honking. Countless times. It’s a city. Cities are loud. NYC is LOUD LOUD. We can the worst of this with better construction. NYC makes it hard and expensive to do construction. Almost, it would seem, deliberately. Including renovations. So they are scapegoating one egregious and visible minority group of offenders while completely punting on the bulk of the problem. Of course.