There's one go-to organization, and one go-to guy, for information about local noise regulations. He's Les Blomberg, founder of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse. Blomberg has been tracking noise ordinances in…
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When the city council passed the egregiously flawed 2023 noise ordinance, the result was to raise the city's daytime noise limit to 85 decibels, a limit that a nationally recognized…
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In a shocking and unannounced vote, the City Council voted to affirm the discredited and harmful Yonkers noise limits. With an 85 decibels day time noise limit -- perhaps the…
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SO WE'VE WON, RIGHT? UNFORTUNATELY, NO 814 citizens have signed. A majority of the City Council now wants to reconsider the noise ordinance. All candidates in the recent City Council…
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Yonkers City Council President Lakisha Collins-Bellamy By Peter Cohn We may now have majority support on the City Council for a reconsideration of the 2023 noise ordinance that radically…
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The past couple of weeks have brought us progress in pursuing our cause, glimmers of hope, interesting revelations, and the sad reality that even as our arguments get stronger and…
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More than 600 citizens have signed the petition against the Yonkers City Council noise ordinance.
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70 percent who answered our noise poll say that Yonkers has a noise problem.
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As our petition campaign gains momentum, Quieter Yonkers has now won the support of key Yonkers community groups. Here are the groups that are lending their support, and a brief…
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We now have more than 500 citizens who have signed our petition calling on the Yonkers City Council to reverse their vote giving the city one of the nation's least…
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