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A woman waits as an uptown Sixth Avenue express train zooms by. (Just Us 3/flickr)
New Yorkers are all too familiar with the sound of the subway, traffic and transit. Today: the chair of the mayor's noise committee joins us to talk about the citywide policy. And, we take your questions and comments. Also: experimental indie group Califone talks about a joint film and music project. And, they play live in our studio
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Califone
The Sounds of the City
Arline Bronzaft, chairwoman of the noise committee of the Council on the Environment of New York City, joins us as part of our new monthly segment on noise in New York City. Today's topic: Traffic and transit.
Weigh in: What are your biggest transit-related noise concerns? Tell us why.
Weigh in: What are your biggest transit-related noise concerns? Tell us why.
When Noise Impacts Animals
Noise pollution isn’t just a concern for city dwellers, of course. Sounds produced by vehicles and urban sprawl are becoming a major threat to the welfare of wildlife, according to researchers from Colorado State University and the US National Park Service. They found that noise interferes with the way animals ...
Califone Live
The experimental indie group Califone is hard to pin down – and so is their latest project. It’s either an album or a feature-length film. The band’s primary songwriter, Tim Rutili, joins us to talk about All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, a joint music-and-film project that the band is ...