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Dear Noise sufferers,
I can totally relate to your situation. For many years I was hearing a constant low frequency noise every ten seconds. It kept me awake all night making me crazy. For years it was a mystery to me. I lived in downtown Jersey City and kept walking down to New York harbor where the sound emanated from. It wasn't particularly loud but could not be blocked with ear plugs. It seemed to vary with seasonal wind direction. It was like chinese water torture. After complaints of a humming sound making people nuts across the harbor in Bay Ridge,Brooklyn made the press I realized I wasn't alone in my suffering. But it was still a mystery. I started researching other "humming" noises and ran across a story in England that was similar and unsolved. There people complained of feeling like their fillings could fall out and a actual case of door-pin hinges popping out. Serious low frequency vibration! Anyway a man studying the problem after putting up with for three long years thought that it could be "long-reach" drilling going on near by. Being that he was an engineer knew that there is a "singing" effect as the drill twists and turns. That when a lightbulb went off in what was left of my brain! The drilling of the New York Water Tunnel. Sixty stories below ground under Manhattan is a 24 foot diameter drill tunneling down the west side of Manhattan toward the harbor. It is manned twenty four hours a day seven days a week and my theory is that the vibration was/is being projected out into the harbor and bouncing off Bay Ridge Brooklyn which lies in a direct path from the tunnel in Manhattan. My best guess is that there is some kind of underground drilling going on near you. Hopefully yours ends soon. I had to leave the New York harbor area after living there twenty five years. It was literally making me sick. They plan to drill under New York harbor next. No end in sight for me!