Nightmare of noise Planes, trains, sirens, radios – is nabe the loudest in city?
By BRIAN HARMON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, June 13th 2004, 6:54AM Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” blares from an open window on the fourth floor. Dog barking echoes from a window higher up. And across the street, a man working with a sledgehammer shouts and curses in anger. It’s a boisterous cacophony that could drive a neighborhood mad. But in the Hummel Houses complex in Rockaway Beach, Queens, it’s the tip of the iceberg. “The planes come right over my house all night long,” said James Mason, 61, who lives in a fifth-floor apartment with his wife and 10-year-old daughter. “It’s so loud, it shakes the building.” And that’s not all. Behind Mason’s building runs the elevated A train. With its assorted noises, the sprawling Hummel Houses nestled between the ocean and the tracks in the Rockaway Peninsula may be the loudest spot in New York. Some of the hubbub – blaring stereos, barking dogs and ear-shattering construction – is addressed by Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign to quiet New Yo
