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Posted by heypaul on Mon Feb 24 22:28:57 2025 a steal |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Feb 25 08:45:26 2025, in response to NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by heypaul on Mon Feb 24 22:28:57 2025. The closest to that I've experienced is a few nights in a hotel room with the bed probably within 15-20 feet of two SBB (Swiss railway) tracks (one per direction) with about 3 or 4 trains per direction going by day and night, but the nearest station was about half a mile away and I never noticed acceleration/deceleration. I think the presence of the station is a major factor. It's one thing to just hear trains rumble by - that's usually not that annoying, even for non-railfans, but it's another to hear every train's brakes as it comes to a stop, and then its propulsion as it starts up again, every single time. |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Feb 25 08:50:04 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Feb 25 08:45:26 2025. Correction: That should read "3 or 4 trains per hour per direction" |
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Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month |
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Posted by zac on Tue Feb 25 10:02:02 2025, in response to NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by heypaul on Mon Feb 24 22:28:57 2025. My son lived in an apartment on Lincoln Road right above the Prospect Park station. He could hear the buzzer, the noise of the shuttle dumping, the announcements on the train. But the biggest issue was that the buses also would idle there. He didn't stay there very long. |
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Posted by alm on Tue Feb 25 10:16:57 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by zac on Tue Feb 25 10:02:02 2025. Sound deadening windows can make an amazing difference. But of course, those would be a big investment in a rental. |
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Posted by cortelyounext on Tue Feb 25 10:44:23 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by alm on Tue Feb 25 10:16:57 2025. CTA Footage |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Feb 25 10:50:39 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by zac on Tue Feb 25 10:02:02 2025. Interesting that the buses were the greater problem in that situation.Where I live, there's an awful lot of horn-honking -- far more than proportional to the amount of traffic and population density. (I've lived in more urban and denser places with less car/horn noise). I'd take the sound of 600-foot trains rolling by no problem if it lessened the car noise. |
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Posted by Asgard on Tue Feb 25 11:59:02 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by zac on Tue Feb 25 10:02:02 2025. I have a vague recollection of a running gag on either the Dennis Day or Jack Benny shows in the early 1950s. An el train would stop right outside the apartment window; the people in the apartment would say hello to the regular riders, and the train would move on. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Feb 25 14:36:03 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by Asgard on Tue Feb 25 11:59:02 2025. Is this the tv show? I don't recall this joke on the radio version.Eitherway, I think I'll take this to the daily roaring of leafblowers they have in the south. Guys who are too poor or dumb to get a motorcycle revving 363 days a year. |
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Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month |
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Posted by heypaul on Tue Feb 25 17:10:02 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by zac on Tue Feb 25 10:02:02 2025. My son lived in an apartment on Lincoln Road right above the Prospect Park station. He could hear the buzzer, the noise of the shuttle dumping, the announcements on the train. But the biggest issue was that the buses also would idle there. He didn't stay there very long.Did you help him find that apartment? |
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Posted by Asgard on Tue Feb 25 17:29:06 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Feb 25 14:36:03 2025. Yes, TV. |
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Posted by zac on Tue Feb 25 17:58:35 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by heypaul on Tue Feb 25 17:10:02 2025. Nope. He found it himself. He then moved to a high rise in Williamsburg with a view of the entire city. |
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Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month |
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Posted by heypaul on Tue Feb 25 18:08:17 2025, in response to Re: NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by zac on Tue Feb 25 17:58:35 2025. Okay. Come to think of it, in the good old R1/9 days, it would be great to live alongside a station. The brake and compressor sounds would be very comforting, as well as the scent of burning bearing grease. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Feb 25 21:56:34 2025, in response to NYC Apartment that’s Just Feet from Subway Platform Rents for $4-a-Month, posted by heypaul on Mon Feb 24 22:28:57 2025. What kind of feet? |
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