I live in Bushwick. The neighborhood is commonly associated with terms such as up and coming and gentrifying. My area is mainly low ride apartment buildings with the occasional house occupied by a native family here or there. Perhaps the most outstanding thing I noticed in my evening sound walk was how I lived in the intersection of so many different forms of transportation. I live directly under the LaGuardia Airport approach patter so there is a humming of jet engines above at regular intervals. In addition to that there is the jangling sound of the J or M train every ten or so minutes as the line runs parallel to my neighborhood. Theres the obvious roaring of cars as they pass by intersections but theres also the softer rumbling of bicycles and E-bikes commonly used by delivery personnel. In addition on my sound walk I would cross the occasional bodega which always offer an array of sounds. From the sporting event on the TV inside to the two gentleman having a pound conversation in Spanish outside to the sounds of plastic bags being filled with goods. Other sounds I encountered in the “city symphony” of my area include the sounds of dogs barking at skateboarders and children playing around my local laundromat. Some unexpected sounds are when extremely loud commercial used trucks like sanitation trucks or dump trucks come up really narrow streets making a lot of noise. It certainly creates an uncomfortable amplitude compared to what the general sound of the atmosphere in the neighborhood is.
