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This is just dumb--Silence rare among NYC construction boom

Not only is the headline stupid, it has a matching story:

By AMY WESTFELDT
The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest burst in construction in New York in decades is making it tougher than usual for people in the City That Never Sleeps to get a little peace and quiet.

In many neighborhoods — especially around the World Trade Center site — residents are assaulted by the noise of jackhammers and bulldozers and confronted by orange traffic cones at practically every turn. Rush-hour commuters have to wade into traffic to get around construction equipment on the sidewalks. Trucks clog the narrow streets, their horns blaring. And the digging often starts before the morning cup of coffee is ready.

"After you've worked a full week, you really don't want to wake up at 7 a.m. to the drilling," said Lisa Hanock-Jasie, who with her husband moved to lower Manhattan a year ago, attracted by the prices and a building that would take in their 85-pound Belgian Shepherd. "We love living down there. We just hope that it ends one day."[...]

It's a CITY, people!

And just when did it become fashionable to keep emaciated Belgian shepherds in your apartment? And what does he do all day--pine for the polders and yearn for his flocks? Play the pan flute? Read Hercule Poirot stories? Poor fellow--and to top it off, being kept by a couple of self-centered, hyphen-named people who can't seem to figure out moving into a construction site might be noisy.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 20, 2006 01:44 PM