Um?

NYC BUILDING CODE 27-770: Noise control of mechanical equipment.

(a) Minimum airborne noise insulation requirements.

(2) MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT SPACES.

a. Ventilating openings into mechanical equipment
spaces. -Ventilating openings into boiler rooms and
other mechanical equipment spaces shall not be located
in yards or courts where there are windows opening
from living quarters, unless such ventilating openings
are provided with sound attenuating devices if needed
to limit noise transmission to NC-40 (noise criterion)
levels in the exposed dwelling units. For permits issued
after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-two, the
permissible noise levels shall not exceed NC-35.

Transformations

People

...before and after exposure to the whine.

Before:







After:

Update - clip from 8B

Audio recorded from 8B has been added to this post.

I marvel at the shriek's...virulence. It shrieks with shrieky shriekiness.

It's BA-ACK!

CRIMINAL CONDUCT - You're back!

JANOFF & OLSHAN - I wish I could quit you.

Vanishing respite

It's louder...every...hour.

Less Respite

The pest: insinuating itself. Again.


I want to ram pencils into my ears. A painful, permanent solution, that, but THE NOISE WOULD STOP.

RESPITE

Nice. Also meaningless.

One winter it started in December and if you lived here, you could find no refuge for six months.

One winter it went away.

It always comes screaming back in all its illegal, crazy-making glory.