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Window Inserts : Following the re-division of landslide that occurred in New York over the past few years, the apartments are now rising from the industrial areas, where the rumble of trains and trucks to rumble, machinery and sounds during backup.
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Crank solid technical resistance of the interior walls will receive top billing when it comes to marketing 37 Bridge Street in Brooklyn.
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And made the courtyard there.

So that the population does not suffer from a barrage of noise at night irksome, the city requires some buildings for the installation of windows, thick warm, make sure to stay hushed bedroom.

But the crop of owners and managers and real estate developers are going to step forward and voluntarily soundproofing units with a range of new insulation materials, foam and glass.

Despite the steps that may accelerate the sale and rental apartments, but they also aim to meet the needs of residents’ demand for a quieter living spaces.

“In today’s market, this fundamental issue has become more important than ever,” said Colin Carpenter, project manager for 37 Bridge Street, and apartments in the Dumbo neighborhood inBrooklyn.

Developed by Baruch Singer, and the owner based on the Lower East Side, and a nearly $ 30 million will create 45 one to three bedrooms, as well as homes in the town of a pair of red next to the brick factories, one of which once was owned by the Kirkman’s soap.

Despite that the maintenance of clusters around industrial flavor – path of the train is still going through a paving stone to the No. 37 of the bay and large – in the region is silent in the night.

For more concern to Mr. Carpenter is the sound of the other apartments. He therefore bridge plating 37 on the inner walls with thick, coated with a product called QuietRock, hazardous materials in Sunnyvale, California, and expelled from between the plates gypsum standard.

The layers of a special walls can make the sound transmission class rating of 65 years, compared with STC rating of 40 typical walls, according to thehazardous materials spokeswoman.

On the other hand, that the treatment will cost Mr. Carpenter three times as much as regular drywall. He hopes to additional expenditures will translate into higher prices; 1,000-square-foot one-bedroom in 37 bridge probably a list of $ 700,000, he explained. Apartment in the submission of a plan awaiting approval by the State, and despite the fact that Mr. Carpenter added that Mr. Singer had decided to make the building lease.

Vaccination votes intervention was also a priority in 80 cities, and low-slung 123 unit apartment in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, developed by the New York Convention Steiner, who represented the 37 bridge is concerned more about the noise from inside of the pavements.

The challenge was met by G. Steven Lindsey, a sound engineer with Cerami & Associates, who previously worked at Steiner Studios inBrooklyn Navy Yard, where librarylike environment must be maintained while filming. Cerami & Associates Soundproof also farm Sky Walker, director George Lucas and near the facility for the production of Nicasio, California

Yes, and six inches Dagwood sandwich-like layers of plates, steel and insulation material at a cost of 80 Metropolitan 30 percent more than standard walls, “said Mr. Lindsay, but it works. “You probably will not know on the television was,” he said.

If this is the calm point of sale is unclear, because he did not use the skin in 80 cities in 56 units in two years they were on the market, “said Colin Juliet – Cheung, Project Manager, where studios start at $ 399,000. But “now we realize how unique and important is,” she added.

Soundproofing from scratch is one thing, and tell the developers, but re-ripping out walls to protect them is an endeavor requires more cautious.

Include windows with transparent insulation may not be feasible, according to Yolanda Queen, director of real property with Bellmarc, who oversees this type of retrofit in the south of the Regency, 22 years old, the story of a white brick in the lease of 250 East 63rd Street in the city center.

IDA Cityproof Long Island City, Queens, and installation of glass barriers can reduce noise in the streets by 90 percent, says Michael Damelin, president of the company. And can go a long way in the Regency southern border with traffic jams and the second stretch of road near the off-ramp of the bridge Queensboro.

Soundproofing is a waste of time. Ms. Queen upgrades and units with only after they moved from the tenants, and only half of the building 180 studios and two rooms have been operating since 2004.

It is also expensive, she said, at a cost of up to $ 2,000 per apartment, or about 10 percent of the cost of $ 20,000 to renovate the next tenant. But it seemsthat the necessary measures to stop the barrage of complaints, and there and other buildings, which seems to rise in unison with the rent increases. Rents in the Regency Hotel in the south of the start of $ 2,200 per month.

“You spend a lot of money to live somewhere, so you should not have to go home and you hear a honk, honk, honk, Fromm, Fromm, Fromm,” Ms. Queen said.

Agreed, “said Danny Dunn, a teacher in high school living on the eighth floor in the studio faces Second Avenue.

“When I open the window, and you hear everything, such as police on the radios and said: ‘Move over,” she said. “But when the window is closed, it’s frankly not so bad.”