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A man who was wanted for a double murder in Brooklyn, New York, was shot and killed during a confrontation with police.. Jason Pass, 47, was shot and killed by police on Wednesday morning after he ...
A years-long feud over noise complaints between neighbours ended in a horrific shooting in an apartment building in Brooklyn, police say
Plans to convert a family house into a children's care home have been approved despite objections from neighbours concerned about noise and disruption. The three-bedroom terraced property on ...
Sound annoyance is a subjective matter and cannot be covered by law. In the Netherlands the government set up laws to protect households and other noise-sensitive buildings like hospitals and schools from noise pollution. There are different laws for different sound sources; airplanes, traffic, industry and neighbours. [13]
Albuquerque NM and Omaha, NE (Chapter 17) require that intruding sounds not be audible. Burlington, VT (Chapter 18) requires that renters be supplied with the city noise ordinance. In New York City specifically, the neighbor-to-neighbor noise issue is predominantly based on the average living situation. Due to the fact that most residents ...
The New York City Police Department School Safety Division is the law enforcement agency for New York City Department of Education schools. The agency is a division of the New York City Police Department Community Affairs Bureau and is one of the largest school-based law enforcement agencies in New York City and the United States, with approximately 5,000 School Safety Agents (SSA's) and 200 ...
The new legislation, which is sponsored by Councilman Eric Bottcher (D-Manhattan) would double fines for such violations, potentially raising the penalties from a maximum fine of $3,000 to $6,000.
Industrial noise control is a subset of interior architectural control of noise, with emphasis on specific methods of sound isolation from industrial machinery and for protection of workers at their task stations. Sound masking is the active addition of noise to reduce the annoyance of certain sounds, the opposite of soundproofing.