After figuring out yesterday that our management company has done nothing about the noise problem upstairs, I decided to use my legal research skills to read up on a few NY cases about noisy neighbors. Turns out that tenants in NYC seem to have no right to quiet, and that part of the "price" of living in a big city is dealing with noisy neighbors. And here I thought the price of living in the city was the rent I paid every month. Anyway, it seems that as long as the noise ends by around 11 p.m., courts have found that neighbors can play musical instruments, including drums, as long as their lease doesn't prohibit it. Mine doesn't prohibit it, so we're pretty much screwed in terms of enjoying any quiet in our apartment.
Rather than being upset, this information actually makes me feel a little bit better because now I know that at the very least, I don't have rights that are being violated. As a lawyer (not barred in NY though, and none of what I write is legal advice anyway!), it would really make me angry if I had rights that were being violated. Now I realize that I'm just oppressed, and what better way to rebel against oppression than to start a band? Change things through music, right?
As usual, click to make it bigger and be able to read it, it's easiest to just post Craigslist ads by taking a screenshot.
Does anyone have any good ideas about what I can name my new band?
As usual, click to make it bigger and be able to read it, it's easiest to just post Craigslist ads by taking a screenshot.
4 comments:
Architext of Disaster
nice work. (mandy and elwood)
Nerve Taxers
(brion)
if you get an all girl band together: the decibelles.
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