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  • 2025-10-31 01:32

    Noise politics with Dr. Arline Bronzaft – soundproofist 09

    A podcast episode featuring Dr. Arline Bronzaft discussing noise politics and urban sound issues. The image shows what appears to be a subway or train system in an urban setting, relating to transportation noise concerns.
  • 2025-10-30 16:17

    In honor of Arline Bronzaft

    “Noise is not just annoying. It’s a matter of public health” It is with the greatest sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Arline Bronzaft, long time environmental psychologist at City University of New York, and the person who can rightly be called the founding mother of research into the public health effects of
  • 2024-06-14 14:46

    Speaking of Psychology: How noise pollution harms our health, with Arline Bronzaft, PhD

    From roaring leaf blowers to screeching trains, the world is full of unwelcome noise—and researchers have found that noisy environments can take a real toll on people’s mental and physical health. Arline Bronzaft, PhD, talks about how noise affects health and well-being, how it can harm kids’ learning, why it’s not just a problem in
  • 2019-11-05 01:33

    The Politics of Noise

    Arline Bronzaft is a leading expert on noise. Her research on noise and its impact on the reading scores of New York City school students led to positive changes in the city. From acoustical modifications in the classroom to improvements to the tracks on the New York City subways, Dr. Bronzaft succeeded in solving noise
  • 1982-04-26 23:34

    Student Scores Rise After Nearby Subway Is Quieted

    By Ari L. Goldman April 26, 1982 Fifteen times during each school day, an IRT subway train would rumble and screech past Public School 98, near the northern tip of Manhattan. In classrooms facing the elevated tracks, all work would stop until the train barreled by. After years of complaints about the disruption, the Transit Authority
  • 1975-12-15 00:00

    The Effect of Elevated Train Noise On Reading Ability

    ARLINE L. BRONZAFT is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York. Professor Bronzaft is a member of the Governor’s Energy Task Force of New York and the Chairman of the Mayor’s Subway Service Watchdog Commission of New York City. Her major interest is the harmful effects of subway noise and subway travel on mental health. DENNIS P. McCARTHY is a member of the Environmental Psychology Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His par- ticular interests are environmental stressors in urban living, and he is presently investigating the effects of high-rise dwelling on low-income families. Early laboratory work (Kryter, 1950, 1970; Broadbent, 1957) had found no compelling support for direct effects of noise on mental and psychomotor performance, and it was concluded that people seem to adapt to noise (Kryter, 1970). However, G lass and Singer (1972a), through an extensive survey of previous noise research and their own studies on noise adapta- tion, found that, following exposure to unpredictable and uncontrollable high-intensity noise, the often reported after- effects were: degradation in quality of task performance, lowered frustration tolerance, and impaired ability to resolve cogn itive conflict. Most recently, in a study on the effect of noise in a natural environment, Cohen et al. (1973) found that elementary school children living on the lower floors of buildings, directly exposed - to high-intensity expressway noise, showed greater impairment Environment and Behavior, Vol. 7 No. 4, December 1975…