If you heard this last night, I would guess it's from Governor's Island (or potentially the gay pride celebrations on one of the Manhattan piers)

Nope -- definitely Governor's Island. I've lived here for a while now and I notice a perfect correlation between the strobe lights on Governor's Island and the bass thumping I hear from my living room (as well as the schedule of DJs that are performing according to the website of the Beach Club)

By the way, according to the below:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/noise_code_guide.pdf

Commercial establishments that play music must limit the level of unreasonable or disturbing noise that escapes into the streets or is heard in nearby residences by requiring that sounds levels may not exceed:
? 42 decibels as measured from inside nearby residences,
AND
? 7 decibels over the ambient sound level, as measured on
a street or public right-of-way 15 feet or more from the
source, between 10:00 pm and 7:00 am

The latter requirement of 7 dB is equivalent to 5x the ambient sound level (10^(7/10) = 5). Compared to street level ambient noise in Paulus hook, I definitely think the noise from Governor's Island is 5x.

Obviously, I live in NJ, but I would hope the NYC code in spirit was meant to apply to anyone affected from NYC sources of noise.

Wondering if anyone has any opinions on this or if I'm way off base.

I know this is an old thread, but this is still an ongoing issue, and I'm wondering if anyone else feels the same. For those of us living on the waterfront in Paulus Hook, there's a lot of LOUD bass noise coming from Governor's Island on evenings where there's an event at the Beach Club, which are typically house or trance concerts. These concerts are just a nuisance on Friday and Saturday nights, but when they happen on Sunday nights, they become a severe disturbance.

I recently filed a noise complaint at the NYC website at the following link:

http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/ser ... 49/noise-from-club-or-bar

I would highly recommend anyone that has experienced the same issue to file a complaint as well. Any thoughts are appreciated on how we can handle this beyond just putting tissue paper in our ears.