Stifling Noise? Traffic Jams, Honking Horns...Pollution?

Solution: double pane windows and an air conditioner courtesy of Forest City Ratner.

From No Land Grab:
RATNER TO BROOKLYN: BE COOL

The NY Post
By Rich Calder

Developer Bruce Ratner is not only bringing NBA basketball and skyscrapers to Brooklyn, he's bringing free air conditioners and insulated windows.

Ratner last week sent out letters to about 700 residences around - and even within - the 22-acre footprint of his planned $4 billion Atlantic Yards project for Prospect Heights, telling residents that they are eligible to receive air conditioners and double-paned windows to help minimize construction noise.

---

As DDDB correctly reports, its also the 'solution' to the vast environmental problems created by this project (NOT just the construction):

We've gotten word that somewhere near 700 residents along Dean Street, Flatbush and Vanderbilt Avenues have gotten or will get this certified mail letter offering the recipient resident 30 days to decide if they want to accept Forest City Ratner's State mandated "noise attenuation" measures to mitigate the noise from the arena, construction and traffic.

Wow that's all that's needed to solve all these global warming/green house gas emissions problems! and imagine all these idiots wasting time trying to design environmentally friendly buildings and urban plans that mimize traffic when all you have to do is install a few windows and air conditioning!

I have a BRILLIANT idea to solve NY's housing "crisis" lets build similar high density tower clusters on Bruce Ratner's 196 acre estate (using the power of eminent domain, of course) and in Bloomberg/Zuckerman/Ratner's Upper East Side neighborhood. We'll provide them with a similar 'solution' to the excess pollution and noise. Since they are certain it is good for us, certainly it must be good for them.