Swimming Pool At UWS Townhouse Creates Noise Hell: NY Times

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A quaint Upper West Side block has been put through the ringer for more than a year due to noisy construction stemming from a project to create a double-wide townhouse megamansion, according to reports.

Construction at the West 69th Street site between Central Park West and Amsterdam Avenue — including near-constant jackhammering to expand the properties for a subterranean swimming pool — has gotten so obstructive that neighbors who don't move are forced to wear noise-cancelling headsets around their own homes, the New York Times reported. All that's left of 48 and 50 W. 69th Street are the original facades of the buildings, everything else was leveled in 2018 to make way for the new mansion, the New York Times reported.

Neighborhood dogs are being prescribed tranquilizers due to the constant shaking, according to the report.

Life on the street was so upended by the construction that local block association president Eileen Vazquez launched an investigation to identify the couple behind the LLC listed as the new owners of the West 69th Street site.

Find out who the owners are by reading the full New York Times article here.