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Exactly. The wake-up-the-neighborhood music is the protest song of the disenfranchised.
Oh, bull. Look, I see your comment makes a point when a loud vehicle roars through an upscale neighborhood.
My concern is the peace of my neighborhood. At 7 a.m., people who work are sleeping as long as they possibly can before alarms go off. Night workers ("graveyard shift") can only sleep in early mornings. Schoolchildren, catching their last half hour of sleep, need to be bright and alert to learn that day.
At 2 a.m. and 7 a.m., this kind of noise wakes up disenfranchised people who are just working hard to better themselves. At 7 p.m., I assume it's someone who can't get a date and must call attention to himself, because I never see women using their cars like this.
Last edited by BrightRabbit; 08-31-2015 at 09:03 AM..
Its part of living in a city. What can ya do? I grew up in the Bronx so I quickly got used to blaring tunes at night during the summer. I lived in Hudson Heights for a couple of years until I got priced out and I didn't hear ANYTHING late a night. zilch! That area of manhattan is so quiet! When I moved back to the Bronx I heard someone playing some garbage music with the bass too high (typical) in their car late at night within a week. lol
Now whats a bit surprising is that someone out there was playing Reggaeton. I thought that crap got played out years ago. Horrific music but thats just my opinion.
well, I dont buy that statement.
just because we live in the city does not give people the right to blast music in thier cars while driving down residential neighborhoods at any given time. It is unacceptable and not nice.
just because we live in the city doesn not mean we have to be forced to hear loise on evey level possible.
I think we're in agreement that blaring music from cars is both annoying and deeply inconsiderate.
There have been dozens of posts here about rising rents, gentrification, etc. While I'm not saying it's true in every instance, I think it's possible some people who behave in this rude manner are feeling disenfranchised and this is a way to protest while driving through upscale or up-in-coming neighborhoods.
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Originally Posted by BrightRabbit
Oh, bull. Look, I see your comment makes a point when a loud vehicle roars through an upscale neighborhood.
My concern is the peace of my neighborhood. At 7 a.m., people who work are sleeping as long as they possibly can before alarms go off. Night workers ("graveyard shift") can only sleep in early mornings. Schoolchildren, catching their last half hour of sleep, need to be bright and alert to learn that day.
At 2 a.m. and 7 a.m., this kind of noise wakes up disenfranchised people who are just working hard to better themselves. At 7 p.m., I assume it's someone who can't get a date and must call attention to himself, because I never see women using their cars like this.
I think we're in agreement that blaring music from cars is both annoying and deeply inconsiderate.
There have been dozens of posts here about rising rents, gentrification, etc. While I'm not saying it's true in every instance, I think it's possible some people who behave in this rude manner are feeling disenfranchised and this is a way to protest while driving through upscale or up-in-coming neighborhoods.
Agreed. As a matter of fact, I know of some who openly do it in Bushwick. Although it's ultimately a losing battle, it's their way of sticking it to the people who they feel took over their neighborhood. Since they can't get them to leave, they do what they can to bring QOL down. The new locals around here though are pretty used to it by now. Nothing really fazes them anymore...
My neighborhood is pre-gentrification, and it happens plenty. I think this behavior predates gentrification.
For some odd reason, you're justifying rank rudeness as if it's a form of political protest.
Here's one I witnessed at 7 a.m. A guy's idling his car, full volume, in front of a methadone clinic. Clinic director comes out to yell at him to go away. He yells back, "I'm just here picking up my brother." When director yells again at him to leave, some other neighbors yell at her, "You can't just tell people 'go away.'" It was a yelling mess. None of those hollering people have anything to do with gentrification, unless you believe a methadone clinic director is fru-fru and they're serving up lattes there.
If people are roaring through Bushwick as a form of protest, I don't know about that, I guess.
Well I am a cranky old man and when I roll up on one of these bozos I put on my CD of Opera and turn it up louder hoping one of them will get the message
Before I leave this neighborhood, I'm going to rent a car with a massive soundsystem, and blast Ride of the Valkyries at about 9am, when these ne-erdowells have finally fallen into drunken slumber in their mother's and baby-mama's apartments.
It is inconsiderate, and shows people thier mentality. Mostly stupid people do this. A smart intelligent and sensible person would not do that.
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