The Noise Papers. How Yonkers got louder: the emails that show what went wrong.

Why would the Yonkers City Council vote to give Yonkers one of the worst noise ordinances in America? Investigative journalist David MacKay Wilson has published an in depth account of how it happened, a story of greed, incompetence and mismanagement.

Now for the first time, we are releassing the paper trail. These are the documents that very clearly show all of the flaws in how policy is made in Yonkers.

It began on August 21, 2023 when a politically connected resident emails Council Member Tasha Diaz asking for a meeting to “talk about the current noise ordinance.”

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