{"id":1290,"date":"2006-07-13T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/hey_asshole_your_fucking_car_stereo_bumping_shitty_pop_music_at_3_am_is_topping_the_list_of_problems_for_new_yorkers.html"},"modified":"2006-07-13T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T18:44:22","slug":"hey_asshole_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/hey_asshole_you.html","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Asshole, Your Fucking Car Stereo Bumping Shitty Pop Music At 3 A.M. Is Topping The List Of Problems For New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose there are worse things to have happen, but hearing your fucking car stereo bumping shitty pop music at 3 a.m. is the city’s biggest annoyance<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Street noise is so out of control that frustrated and sleep-weary New Yorkers cite it as the Big Apple’s No. 1 problem, a new survey has found.<\/p>\n

Horn-hunkers, blaring music, drunken rabble-rousers and other noise replaced potholes as the most vexing problem, according to the poll of 600 civic leaders conducted by Citizens for NYC\/Baruch College.<\/p>\n

Neighborhood activists ranked litter as the second worst problem, the same as last year.<\/p>\n

“There’s too much noise and too much litter,” said Peter Kostmayer, president of Citizens for NYC.<\/p>\n

Kostmayer said that if half the drivers who needlessly honk their horns stopped, neighborhoods would be significantly more peaceful.<\/p>\n

“What we’re talking about is unnecessary noise,” he said.<\/p>\n

He blamed selfish behavior of violators — not the lack of government enforcement of noise abatement and anti-littering laws — as the principal problem.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think horn-honking is the mayor’s fault,” Kostmayer said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then again, it’s significant that we’re carping about your fucking car stereo bumping shitty pop music at 3 a.m. instead of, say, violent crime:<\/p>\n

Kostmayer said the fact that New Yorkers are most worried about irritants like noise and filth is not so bad.<\/p>\n

Violent crime, for example, is barely on the radar — ranking a lowly 24th.<\/p>\n

And 47 percent of New Yorkers said their neighborhood had improved. Only 25 percent said they had worsened. The other 28 percent said the conditions were about the same.<\/p>\n

That’s a significant improvement over last year, when 39 percent cited improvement and 32 said conditions had deteriorated. The rest said things were about the same.<\/p>\n

“The city is doing well. The fact that we’re not talking about homicides, rapes and assaults says a lot,” Kostmayer said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose there are worse things to have happen, but hearing your fucking car stereo bumping shitty pop music at 3 a.m. is the city’s biggest annoyance: Street noise is so out of control that frustrated and sleep-weary New Yorkers cite it as the Big Apple’s No. 1 problem, a new survey has found. Horn-hunkers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citywide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}