Thank you for contacting Community Board 14 office. Please be advised that the NYC noise code specifies that complaints regarding loud music can be filed if it is taking place after 11 PM. If this is the case, please keep filing your complaints as the issue persists and provide us with service request numbers when complaints are filed. This post and any follow ups will be forwarded to Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs) of the 70th Police Precinct for action.

Police don't enforce giving tickets for smoking weed on the street either. Most of the people blasting music from cars on East 23rd Street don't live there. They come to visit their gang buddies and buy weed.

They can smoke weed and blast music and go home whenever THEY decide. The residents and home owners pay the taxes for the abuse that they endure. Chicken bones and chinese food, loud music, smoking weed.... Easst 23rd is a free for all. Cops do nothing no matter what time you call.

- I'm sorry but you're interpretation of the NYC Noise Code is incorrect and misleading at best. According to:
Sec. 24-218 General Prohibitions:
(a) No person shall make, continue or cause or permit to be made or continued any unreasonable noise.
(b) Unreasonable noise shall include but shall not be limited to sound, attributable to any device, that exceeds the following prohibited noise levels:
(1) Sound, other than impulsive sound, attributable to the source, measured at a level of 7 dB or more above the ambient sound level at of after 10:00 pm and before 7:00 am, as measured at any point withing the receiving property or as measured at a distance of 15 feet or more from the source on a public right-of-way.
(2) Sound, other than impulsive sound, attributable to the source, measured at a level of 10 dB or more above the ambient sound level at of after 7:00 am and before 10:00 pm, as measured at any point withing the receiving property or as measured at a distance of 15 feet or more from the source on a public right-of-way.
- So, there is nothing in the code that specifies that noise complaints can only be filed after 11 pm. And furthermore, it provides guidelines for illegal noise levels between 7 am and 10 pm. The noise that I am complaining about can be heard inside of my house on the next street over. My home is way more than 15 feet away from the source of the noise and the noise level is well above 10 decibels over the ambient sound level. Therefore, the noise level is in violation of the NYC Noise Code during the day time hours before 11 pm.
- In addition, here is Sec. 24-233 Personal Audio Devices:
(a) No person shall operate or use or cause to be operated or used any personal audio device in such a manner as to create an unreasonable noise.
(b) For the purposes of this section unreasonable noise shall include but shall not be limited to:
(1) the operation or use of a personal audio device on or in any public right-of-way so that sound emanating from such device is plainly audible to another individual at a distance of 25 feet or more from the source
(2) the operation or use of a personal audio device from on or inside a motor vehicle, whether moving, parked, stopped or standing, on or in any public right-of-way so that the sound emanating from such vehicle is plainly audible to another individual outside of such motor vehicle at a distance of 25 feet or more from the source.
- So, my house is definitely more than 25 feet from Newkirk Ave, since its located on Stephens Ct. Residents on Newkirk Ave blast music on public sidewalks and from parked vehicles. And the music is so loud that I can hear it clearly inside of my home. Once again, there is absolutely no language in the NYC Noise Code that specifies that noise complaints can only be filed after 11 pm and it clearly restricts unreasonable noise during all hours of the day.
- I would like for the Brooklyn Community Board to point to a section in the NYC Noise Code that states that noise complaints for loud music can only be filed after 11 pm. That the loud/blasting music is legal before 11 pm. That the police department should not enforce the NYC Noise Code before 11 pm. And that I and my neighbors should be subjected to unreasonable noise, which is illegal in accordance to the NYC Noise Code, for hours except when its after 11 pm. Thanks!

The NCO at 70th are really sincerely very nice people and they do listen to complaints But no tickets are given for smoking weed on the sidewalk during the day or night (and they are off duty for noise complaints at night after 11), is there anything else that can be done?

Your frustration is reasonable, but if there is an issue of noise level, it should be reported to the Department of Environmental Protection to investigate. A DEP inspector would contact a complainant to set up an appointment.

Please respond to my earlier post about your assertion that noise complaints shouldn't be filed before 11 pm. Also, you are wrong once again, the DEP only investigates noise complaints from businesses and other commercial enterprises. Personal audio device complaints, neighbor noise complaints and loud music/party on public streets are a direct responsibility of the police department.

You are ignoring and deflecting the problem and our complaints with inaccurate information. The police department should respond and investigate noise complaints at any hour, since there is nothing in the Noise Code that states otherwise. It is just as illegal to blast your music from your car, your house or the sidewalk at 11 am, at 3 pm or at 2 o'clock in the morning. But for some reason, the community board and the local police department, are either ignorant on the specifics of the NYC Noise Code or are willfully ignoring it and are refusing to enforce the law.

Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me over the phone. I will continue to file these noise complaints and will post the service request numbers as they arise. I am also looking forward to speaking with Officer Kahveci regarding this issue. Once again thank you for taking the time to speak with me.

Wow, Quite the racket going on here. Post a concern as Anonymous, then comment in support for yourself using multiple user names (jules, pasha, sometimes paul). And to boot, be a chronic complainer about a myriad of quality-of-life issues. Your compaint may be legitimate but stop being dishonest about fictitious others supporting you.
Here's a thought, maybe if you kept your dogs on-leash in on-leash areas of Prospect Park you wouldn't have such bad quality-of-life kharma.

Number 1, yes, I did post as anonymous. Number 2, Jules is real person who lives on my block.
Number 3, my screen name used to be Paul, but now is Pasha, so I never had more than one profile at a time. Number 4, I am clearly not the only one who has a problem with noise in this neighborhood. Number 5, what exactly do you know about me and my dog? Number 6, at least I use my real name in my profile instead of ShabbatShalom. And finally, who are you? and why are you worried about my karma?

Service Request Number: 1-1-1593596571

This complaint 1-1-1593596571 was filed at 5:43 pm. I received an update at 6:24 pm, stating that "The Police Department responded to the complaint and took action to fix the condition." However, the music wasn't stopped or even turned down. Now, I am forced to file another noise complaint 1-1-1593675861 at 9:02 pm, hoping that this time the police department will actually respond and take action to fix the problem.

Police did respond to the second noise complaint and did take action to fix the problem at 11 pm.

Filed a noise complaint C1-1-1598714441 at 7:13 pm on August 1st. The police department didn't respond until 4:13 am the following morning stating that "The Police Department responded to the complaint and with the information available observed no evidence of the violation at that time."
Please let me know what I should have done differently, since the police didn't respond until 9 hours after the complaint was filed.

The NCO's have been very responsive and the issue has marginally improved. Thanks.