What Stops Noise, but Starts Conversations?

by Lisa W. Foderaro New York Times, 29 May 2005 Their backyards may share a wall, but their feelings about that are not shared in the slightest. The wall is the 16-foot-tall concrete noise barrier -- roughly the height of the old Berlin Wall -- that the state Department of Transportation erected several years ago after it finished a reconstruction project on a nearby section of the Hutchinson River Parkway. The idea was to quiet the constant whirring of traffic for the residents of Winding Wood Road. Read the article