Noise near LIRR stations?

[Dave 92 LSC]

I live about 2 blocks from a train station and do hear the trains but it's barely noticeable . Now I'm an audio engineer and sometimes when I wake up at night, I can hear the diesel freights going by, but again( it doesn't bother me at all. My precious place of residence was an apartment overlooking the train tracks which would get pretty loud, so maybe I'm used to train noise. Also, I love trains, and the walk to train station is 2 minutes. Which makes getting to work so much easier .

I suggest checking the place out and seeing how the noise is. Might want to do it in the evening hours and morning as well. 5-8 am.

[Aura 524]

Originally Posted by samyn on the green

A good check is to visit your local funeral home. Ask for a "test drive" of one of the floor model caskets. Have them close it. Let the silence resonate. If your new suburban home isn't as quiet, you have a legitimate complaint.

This is a thinking outside the box way of gauging the silence that actually involves getting inside of it.

[NYC refugee]

I live very close to a station in an apartment so quiet I can hear the wall clock tick if there's no other noise (from outside, from TV, etc.). The next block over, the houses back onto the elevated tracks, but I only barely hear the trains go by when it's quiet enough to hear the clock and I find it's still a very quiet train. I haven't heard a horn since I've been here, but I know that would be a different thing entirely.