Living with Noise: How Traffic Bust and Mermaid Is Harming Hearing Health in New York

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New York, USA. Tim Mulligan has moved to downtown Manhattan to avoid relying on New York’s old, noisy subway, which threatens users who use it daily to lose their hearing ability. “Even with earphones with the maximum volume you can’t hear anything all the way,” says this 43-year-old ex-marine who suffers from PTSD. At home, not far from the zero point of tourism in the Big Apple, Times Square, he has covered his bedroom window with acoustic foa…