See NYC's Noisiest Neighborhoods On This Map

NEW YORK — Noise is a fact of life in New York City, but it plagues some neighborhoods — or at least bothers their residents — more than others. A new map created by RentHop gives a closer look at which corners of the city are the noisiest.

The apartment listing website used city data to determine how many noise complaints per capita have emanated from dozens of neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx so far this year. RentHop used those figures and median one-bedroom rents to evaluate the relationship between noise and housing prices.

Hamilton Heights proved to be the city's noisiest neighborhood with 0.0486 complaints per capita, or 2,358 as a raw number, RentHop found. That's a rate more than 10 times that of the Upper East Side, which was Manhattan's quietest neighborhood with 0.00359 complaints per capita, or 220 as a raw number.

The most raucous Brooklynites can apparently be found in the DUMBO and Downtown Brooklyn area, which has racked up 1,275 complaints, or 0.0369 per capita, according to RentHop. The borough's quietest neighborhood, Borough Park, is also the quietest in the city with just 0.00324 complaints per capita, or 345 as a raw number.

The Bronx's worst neighborhood for noise is also the city's third-worst overall: Bedford Park-Fordham North has recorded 2,492 complaints, or 0.0457 per capita, RentHop found. Parkchester, on the other hand, is the quietest corner of the Boogie Down with 0.00603 complaints per capita, just 180 as a raw number.

Rackets also abound in Woodhaven, which is the noisiest part of Queens with 1,433 complaints, or 0.0252 per capita, RentHop found. But just 0.00388 complaints per capita came from Bayside Hills, the quietest nabe in the borough and the third-quietest in the city.

There's a slight negative correlation between per-capita noise complaints and rents, meaning that apartments tend to get more expensive as neighborhoods get quieter, according to RentHop. But the website's study noted that pricy areas aren't necessarily always quieter because some people are willing to pay more for "more vibrant nightlife."

Curious how your neighborhood stacks up? Check out RentHop's map below, or read the full study here.

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