City Windows--can a bedroom looking out on lex be made completely quiet?

I have visited apartments where the noise-stopping windows were *amazing.* Corner apartments are highly desirable in my book.

i would say no -- the buses and reverb -- base-- is still there.

I hate noise, of various kinds (in nyc there are varius categories: highway-avenue noise like lex; dense developed area buzzing air processors that you hear even if you are not on the avenue; low floor noise from boisterous bars in the wvillage...and more). If it means enough to you to think about city windows, I suspect you won't be happy even with the windows in an eight floor unit on lex. In any case, you need to go there and listen late in the evening because daytime hours somehow cloud the noise perception you would have at night. I don't know you, but if noise is a big issue, get something midblock, and also get the citwindows.

yeah..buses are amazingly loud. I doubt if any window could fight that.

Have any others had success with city windows?

Yes Siggy, "Citiproof" installed windows, when I lived at 36th ST. and Third Ave. Very noisy corner: buses, loud honking traffic waiting to crawl into the Tunnel, ambulance sirens.
I got the medium thickness windows (You don't want to block out all noise completely). The windows cut out the street noise very well. Get the filters, so you can open your window, and not get the soot into your apartment, and on your window sills, and window treatments.
Also very good for insulation. The best money you will invest in your apartment.
May I suggest: Get your apartment front door insulated with their weather-stripping. It seals off the door completely, keeps A/C in, drafts out. Also keeps smoke out (in case of fire), and keeps roaches from crawling in, from the hallway. It's great for noise reduction, coming from the hallway, and reduces the volume of your apartment's outgoing noise.

City quiet window are amazing. i have friends who have the bqe about 10 feet from their windows. Cityquiet reduced the constant racket to low volume white noise

Yes, that's what I mean. Low volume white noise. You don't really (or maybe you do)want to be in total Tomb mode. It's good to be able to hear air-raid sirens, especially in N.Y.C. in these terrorist times.
Really, Citiproof is excellent. (and, some noise leaks in, through your a/c units; so nothing will ever be completely silent. Try the extra-width windows.)

I stayed in a little hotel in London, on a noisy street with several bus routes. Because the area's landmarked, the crappy old single-pane windows couldn't be removed. Another layer of windows, built a couple of inches away on the inside, shut out noise completely.

Is that more or less what Citiproof/Citiquiet/Citiwindows will do?

A friend has a place in DUMBO with the superwindows. The guys is a few floors away from the BQE, and a couple hundred feet from the Manhattan bridge (and the train). I don't know what kind they were, but they reduced the noise to rumble. Open 'em up, and you're in the middle of traffic. Closed, very little. If you're from Kansas, maybe thats still too loud, but this isn't Kansas.

Having lived on Lex, I have to say its really not that bad up there - no bridge / tunnel entrance, and its not going to get the congestion it would in midtown for honking/etc. And 8th floor isn't high, but thats probably 100 feet from street to ear level.

The worst apartment I was ever in was a side street with a bus stop. Cars 'aint bunch. Buses stopping and starting... now thats what you want to avoid.

I am so glad someone asked this question! Thanks Siggy. Does anyone have any advice re Cityproof versus Cityquiet?

Scoots: I only have personal experience with Citiproof. They really are great (both the windows and the company). I lived on the THIRD floor in that building at E. 36th and Third., on the Third Ave. side.

Alanhart: Yes that's exactly the way Citiproof windows are installed.

how much roughly do these things cost

Jim: It was expensive, when I had them installed in 1996. Worth every penny.

Can anyone give us rough idea how much a Citiproof/Citiquiet/Citiwindow window will cost? The window I have is 5feet x 9feet and has three panels - 2 double hung panels ~3 feet wide and one casement panel in the middle.

I am trying to get a very rough idea to budget my total cost.

I did all of the windows in my apartment, 1996. Just call Citiproof for answers. They are very friendly.

My neighbor recently got a quote of $1,400 for 90% noise reduction. This was for a window that is 70 1/2" by 45 1/4". Not sure if that helps vicsing.

I stayed at a hotel (Benjamin) on Lex and they must have had citiproof. It was silent inside on a Lex facing room and I was on a low floor in the 40's.

Thanks Semerun - thats exactly what I was looking for