If the subway is as loud as that truck this morning outside of Citylights at 4AM, nobody will sleep.

That being said, it is easy enough to see. Just go to the apartments and stand there for 10 minutes while a couple of sevens pass.

I am sure the developers were not that dumb.

Jake

possibly not that dumb, but definitely willing to cut corners and costs at any opportunity. just ask some 70 washington residents about their unsealed stone countertops, bad bamboo flooring, etc.

also, a lot of 70 washington ppl had to have new insulated windows put in just to make the noise bearable..

The #7 isn't really near there at all...it's the LIRR/AmTrak lines that are there and they blow their horns all night and day, 24/7. Holidays/weekends, early in the morning...all night long...that's what I'd worry about. Not not little horns...air horns. I've been over there all sorts of hours/days walking around and it seems like you'd be able to hear it miles away, much less where that building is.

---kyle

Oh.. the LIRR not the #7. I see.

Of course, if it was the #7, you could sleep well on the weekends... (rim shot).

Jake

They had a sound engineer record the trains for a 48 hour period and he designed the glass for the building. They are calling it airport glass, whatever it turns out to be. But it will be quiet.

I was out there at 1am and the trains are not that nosiy even at street level. The horns were not being blown near the building, but rather much further down the line.

None of the trains were on the tracks closet to the building though. I would imagine on the lowest floors there may be some vibration, but not on the upper floors. The building is concrete and steel so I doubt it virates very much. Most likely the noisiest trains would be during the day when you are at work.

I think that the sound issue is no worse than being on a low floor in Manhattan when there is a lot of traffic, horn honking or garbage trucks at 2am. We live in a city afterall.