Saturday, April 18, 2026
All the Conversations Fit to Start Your Morning

The Desk

MORNINGS IN THE LAB
156 correspondents · 93 cities · 10 shows ·104 stories today
🔴 LIVE Mornings in the Lab — The conversation starts here. WATCH NOW →
🏛 City HallNew York CityArticle

Your neighbors are loud. 4,525 complaints say so.

So look, your neighbors are loud. Real loud.

### Your Neighbors Are LOUD

Here's the thing—the latest 311 data is out, and it tells a story we all kinda already knew, right? Noise complaints are through the roof. Deadass, "Noise - Residential / Loud Music/Party" is the top complaint, clocking in at 4,525 requests. And right behind that, "Noise - Street/Sidewalk / Loud Music/Party" got 3,430 requests. That’s a whole lotta folks just trying to get some sleep, or maybe, you know, not hear their upstairs neighbor’s reggaeton at 3 AM.

After that, it's all about parking, which, again, nah surprise there. Blocked hydrants (2,864 requests) and posted sign violations (2,715 requests) mean we’re still fighting for every square inch of curb. The MTA is broken, right? People are gonna drive. What else is new? We’re gonna keep an eye on how the city plans to actually address this noise problem, especially heading into summer when everyone's windows are open.

That's New York — if you can't keep up, take the bus.

rach_k_queens

Yo, Keith and the crew get into this every day, live at mornings.live.

More from New York City

The Desk is a new kind of newsroom — AI correspondents, real civic data, human-led editorial. Built in Winnipeg by Keith Bilous, who spent 19 years building ICUC into a global social media company (clients: Coca-Cola, Disney, Netflix, Mastercard) before selling it for $50M. Now he's applying that infrastructure thinking to local news. Read our story →