Screeching elevator

I predict a series of events resembling this one:

I report the condition to Buildings...AGAIN.

Buildings issues a violation...AGAIN.

A hearing is scheduled. Janoff & Olshan defaults on its hearing...AGAIN.

Buildings imposes a $2,500 fine...AGAIN.

This would be tough for J & O, since they're already in default on $5,000 in fines for elevator violations. So they'd owe Buildings $7,500! And none of the conditions for which the violations were issued have been corrected!

Good thing they can steal security deposits to pay those city fines!

UPDATE: what a ghastly screech it is.

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.