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The Council Member said that after many neighbor complaints, the site will utilize "hammer blankets" to try to mitigate the heavy noise

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Council Member Julie Menin says she is helping Extell tuck in their noise at a Yorkville construction site with the use of special-order Australian blankets.

On Thursday, Menin announced that after months of complaints from neighbors around the site at East 79th Street and First Avenue, where the Hospital for Special Surgery will occupy the first eight floors of the 30-story building, new "hammer blankets" have been installed on the excavator-mounted rock hammers terrorizing nearby constituents.

One resident told her office that they actually purchased "construction-grade noise cancelling ear muffs," but said they were not only unpleasant to wear but even then didn't drown out the sound as they worked from home.

"I'm desperate," the constituent wrote to Menin's office.

Fifteen subsequent visits by the city's Department of Environmental Protection found that the site was in compliance with noise regulations, and the Department of Buildings agreed.

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Menin's office said that according to Extell, rock chopping will go on for one more month and that the next phase of construction should involve much less noise.

The megadeveloper, known for kickstarting the "billionaire's row," is currently engaged with a number of Upper East Side developments, including a pair of corners opposite each other on East 86th Street and First Avenue, a site on East 86th Street and Third Avenue, the longtime flagship home of Big Apple icon Papaya King's, and on East 75th Street and Third Avenue, where a 200-foot tower is planned.

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