Letter Writer Who Said Park Slope Kids Are Too Loud Identified: Report

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A freelance book editor apparently used some of his spare time to pen a letter asking a pair of Park Slope parents to quiet their children, The Daily Mail reported.

Sources told the outlet that Vincent Cusenza, 65, is the anonymous neighbor who wrote a letter to a nearby family complaining their toddlers are too loud and that they encourage them too noisily.

Approached for comment by the outlet, Cusenza declined to say anything, but a man who lives with him said the letter "speaks for itself."

"Please control your daughters from shouting and screaming. Parents.... please refrain from whoops and shouts of encouragement," the letter, sent earlier this month, reads.

"You have compromised my enjoyment and my work. Keeping intrusive sources of noise to a minimum is one way we show one another mutual respect."

Letter recipient Christina Frankel, 36, whose children are ages three and one, told The Daily Mail she thinks it is "ridiculous" and "selfish" to ask the young family to be quiet while they play in their backyard.

"Being a parent gets noisy," she told the outlet. "Raising two rambunctious toddlers is the most challenging thing I've ever done. I would bet money that this person doesn't have kids because of the way they spoke to me."

Also, both she and her husband disputed the notion that their family is louder than most — a claim made in the letter — saying that nearby neighbors have never complained about noise.

"They are just kids being kids, the occasional behavior correction but it's not yelling at all hours," the children's father told The Daily Mail.

Instead of following the noise-controlling methods recommended in the letter — like taking the kids inside or going on a walk to a park — Frankel told The Daily Mail she has a recommendation for its writer: "invest in proper headphones [or] find a place that is a designated quiet area, like a library."

Going one step further, she added that someone who is annoyed by the sounds of children "squealing with joy" might want to consider living in an area less densely populated with children than Park Slope.