{"id":537,"date":"2005-12-14T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/how_about_the_sweet_sound_of_my_fist_hitting_wait_was_that_out_loud.html"},"modified":"2005-12-14T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T18:00:32","slug":"how_about_the_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/how_about_the_s.html","title":{"rendered":"How About The Sweet Sound Of My Fist Hitting . . . Wait, Was That Out Loud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Mayor&#8217;s plan for cracking down on noise pollution, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/14\/nyregion\/14softee.html?ex=1292216400&#038;en=6fce57bab7180266&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">the sweet sound of Mister Softee will be curtailed but not completely eliminated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Bloomberg administration will allow the ice cream trucks to continue playing the sprightly ditty while trolling for young customers. But under a compromise with the City Council, the jingle must be halted when the trucks are not moving.<\/p>\n<p>The administration&#8217;s plan to ban the jingle was the most intriguing element of an ambitious citywide noise crackdown, which was intended to curb a wide array of everyday nuisances like blaring music, barking dogs and noisy air-conditioners.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The agreement would also impose stringent time limits on barking dogs; if they don&#8217;t stop within 5 minutes late at night, or 10 minutes during the day and early evening, their owners can be cited.<\/p>\n<p>Noisy sanitation trucks would be banned from collecting garbage within 50 feet of a residence between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. And most construction projects would have to stop overnight, except for emergencies, public safety work or where the builder faces undue hardship like financial penalties.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Not to nitpick, but doesn&#8217;t <em>every<\/em> construction project have financial penalties for not finishing work on time?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Mayor&#8217;s plan for cracking down on noise pollution, the sweet sound of Mister Softee will be curtailed but not completely eliminated: The Bloomberg administration will allow the ice cream trucks to continue playing the sprightly ditty while trolling for young customers. But under a compromise with the City Council, the jingle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality_of_life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}