New Hyde Park, NY Noise Levels
Is New Hyde Park, NY noisy?
New Hyde Park, NY's 60-69.9 dB(A) band spans one of HUD's zone boundaries, so the honest answer is a range: somewhere between "Acceptable" (65 dB(A) or below) and "Normally Unacceptable" (65-75 dB(A)), not one clean verdict. Road traffic drives that number here, not the other two sources. That figure is sampled at one coordinate, the Census Bureau's own internal point for New Hyde Park, not a street-by-street survey of the whole place.
New Hyde Park's noise, by source
Each of the three transportation modes gets its own model from BTS; the combined figure above is what they add up to.
What this means for a house here
Depending on where in that band the true value sits, it may also clear FHWA's 66 dB(A) residential impact threshold (23 CFR 772, Table 1), the trigger highway agencies use for sound-wall decisions. Upgraded windows, door seals and STC-rated glazing meaningfully cut broadband, near-continuous road noise.
Where New Hyde Park ranks
Among the 3,622 US places in this dataset with any measurable transportation noise, New Hyde Park ranks 167, loudest first. About 10,220 people live there, making it the 3,151th largest place in this dataset.
Your street may differ from New Hyde Park's reading
This page describes New Hyde Park as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind New Hyde Park's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how New Hyde Park's reading was built from BTS's tile data. Since road traffic is what's driving this reading, the guide to what actually cuts each kind of noise covers the fix that fits.