New York, NY Noise Levels
Is New York, NY noisy?
New York, NY sits below the 45 dB(A) floor BTS's transportation noise model measures at all, road, rail and aircraft alike. Treat this as New York's one representative point, not a promise about every block in it, BTS's map wasn't built to resolve individual streets.
Where New York ranks
New York, NY sits among 8,515 US places this dataset covers with no measurable transportation noise, out of 12,137 places checked overall. By population, it ranks 1 of the 12,137 places in this dataset, home to about 8,478,072 people.
Your street may differ from New York's reading
This page describes New York as a whole. If one specific address is what matters, BTS publishes the same underlying map for free.
Behind New York's reading
The methodology guide shows exactly how New York's reading was built from BTS's tile data. New York isn't the only surprise: the guide to why big cities show up quiet covers why this happens.