Gair2 -- Noise from Manhattan Bridge

You live in Dumbo and as you said, the building is right against the bridge. What can you really expect?

There's a reason many of these sites were never built on till recently. Many of them are too close to a bridge or a tunnel, or lie in the flood plain.

Beware.

The car traffic is not too bad but the trains are incredibly noisy on the Manhattan bridge, and they never stop...

I lived right in that area for about two months (loft sitting for a friend) long ago in the 90's. At the time, they were working on the bridge (which they had to do at night) that included serious, steady metal-on-metal pounding and jackhammering. It was an epic nightmare.

....but not worse than THIS nightmare (from the 40s). Indeed; bridge train noise can have deadly consequences:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4AzrUO3D1w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

walpurgis: that is totally awesome...

No problem; today, of course, it would be "Sorry, Wrong IP Address"...

For anybody that's asking... I went to view one of the units here, on the side facing Washington St (not Adams St). Noise still sucked. Maybe it takes a little getting used to, but not for $3,000 a month. So I just said fuck it and moved to Vinegar Hill, currently at 99 Gold. Guess it doesn't have the same historic, aesthetic beauty as actual Dumbo but I also don't have trains screeching past my window every 10 - 20 minutes at night. And I get a lovely view of the Farragut Houses! What more can ya ask for?

I had a noise issue like that and installed Citi-Proof windows. They're an inner window that slides horizontally. The space between the two windows made a wonderful green house for my plants also.