I wish this is all I had to complain about

[DainBramaged]

Williamsburg Construction Boom Ruining Babies' Naps and Walks, Moms Say


With stunning views, shiny amenity-stocked condos and a burgeoning community of young families, the Williamsburg waterfront may be prime real estate — but it's also a baby-raising headache, some moms lament.

Construction on new developments has been disrupting infants' naps and outdoor strolls, stay-at-home parents and nannies say, claiming noise and flying dirt are rampant in the popular young family neighborhood.

"It's annoying to be outside with a baby, it's loud and dusty," said Northside Piers condo resident Vanessa Vellucci, who said construction has put a damper on spring walks with her 1-year-old Angelo and that it recently ruined his naps. "They were power drilling and he'd wake up hearing that dun, dun, dun...the building would almost shake."


Vellucci, who moved to the neighborhood from Manhattan two years ago, said she and her mom friends steer clear of walking their kids near the construction-filled blocks on North 4th, North 5th and North 6th Streets, as new construction rises from the ground at a rapid rate. "It's gotten worse lately," she said of the past several months. "When you go to work you don't notice it, but when you're a mom you're walking all these streets every day...You just have to deal with it."

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130408/williamsburg/williamsburg-construction-boom-ruining-babies-naps-walks-moms-say

Wow

[Floyd_Gondolli]

1. Definitely a first world problem

[WilliamPitt]

3. Cuz 'Merika is the only place they build stuff.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

4. It is?

[Orrex]

7. I love it when people chant the slogan of "first world problems."

What they're very clearly saying is that we need only find the one person in the world who has the worst life, and then everyone else can shut up about everything.

Well done!

[Floyd_Gondolli]

8. I love it too.

[Orrex]

10. Great. Now find that person.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

11. Ok.

[WilliamPitt]

14. My personal fave is the deployment of "first world problems"

by someone sitting at a connected computer with time to fuck around on an internet forum.

Irony is always awesome.

[Orrex]

15. Yeah. The guy I work with usually says it while he's updating FB on his iPhone.

Must be tough for the poor lad.

[WilliamPitt]

2. As the father of a week-old daughter, I say

...with all respect: either you don't know, or you've forgotten, why this is actually a big problem for the people complaining.

Either way, spare me the judgment. If there was construction keeping my baby girl awake, I would be super pissed. Not cool at all.

[sharp_stick]

6. Sure you would

but as the father of three I'll say that it doesn't matter if it's a construction company or some shithead middle age crazy dude riding down your street on a motorcycle with short pipes. Everything from the mail man to deer in the back yard will be "conspiring" to keep that cute little bundle of joy from getting back to sleep.

You will be spending the majority of at least the next three months so tired and worn out that after about another two or three weeks you're going to be feeling like you're on an acid trip bender that won't end.

It's worth it though, you'll remember the first full night sleep you get after bringing her home with as much happiness as the memory of the first time you had sex. Although the first time my first one slept through the night I remember my wife waking up terrified that something must be wrong. She made me get up and check on the girl, I never did get back to sleep after that.

You don't realize how much noise we live with on a daily/nightly basis until you become so attuned to the sleep/wake cycle of a newborn that you can hear a mouse fart in the attic.

[Orrex]

9. Years ago I complained about nightly fireworks in early June keeping my 4-month old awake

I was soundly attacked by dozens of high-minded DUers who prized the right to detonate illegal explosives in preference to the right of people to live in explosive-free residential areas. Really opened my eyes.

Congrats on the kiddo--good luck with the sleep!

[Floyd_Gondolli]

13. Sounds like sleep deprivation has already taken its toll

[DainBramaged]

16. I am sorry it offends you

I for one worry about deciding which to buy food or medicine each week. I for one have not bought a new pair of shoes in over two years. And I for one do not live in a tony neighborhood undergoing development, I live in a shitty 660 family borderline slum apartment complex where the drug arrests and drunk drivers are what keeps the mothers awake where I live.


I am sorry you are offended.


It was not my intent to offend, simply to bring light to a subject that shows the divide between my life and many others.


Be well and good luck Dad, your daughter is beautiful.

[geek tragedy]

5. This obviously is NOT the only thing these woman have

to complain about.

But, a baby not being able to sleep isn't something to sneer at either.

[snooper2]

12. what else is there to complain about?

[geek tragedy]

17. You'd have to ask them.

But, in general they're human beings with problems like everyone else I would expect.

[HappyMe]

18. While I can understand being annoyed at the noise,

that construction is providing jobs and therefore food and housing for other families with kids.

Maybe their husbands/SO job is annoying the snot out of somebody else.

It's the circle. The circle of annoyance.

[gollygee]

19. My question is

that I wonder where the story came from.

Like, if they were approaching some authorities at the city and complaining about noise in New York City, I'd think it was silly.

But it looks like maybe the reporter wondered if any parents were bothered by it, and sat down by the riverside, and asked moms as they strolled by with their babies if it bothered them, and they said yes and explained why, and then this story was written. If someone asked them and they answered, I don't see why anyone would be upset with them. If they had an expectation that construction stop because their kids' naps are affected, then yeah I would see the complaint.