New York City fines drivers for noisy vehicles thanks to sound meters
Professor Juan Pablo Bello, lead investigator of Sounds of New York City (SONYC), an NYU endeavor to study urban noise, aimed to collect data on the noise of routine urban life, but COVID intervened. Instead, his team monitored the acoustical rhythms of a city under lockdown, when it was eerily quiet. “I think people developed an appreciation for the fact that it’s a messy, noisy city,” said Bello. “We like it to be full of jobs and activity, and not this sort of scary, quite unnerving place.
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