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Her iPhone, poking up over the dash, captured the scene so she could complain to her city councilors: no fewer than cars, bumper to bumper up and down both sides of Circuit Drive, concert-quality subwoofers atop a handful of them, booming bass and beats into the night. She drove back home and pulled into her driveway, frustrated and exhausted.

Daylight brought little reprieve. The next afternoon, a convoy of dirt bikes and ATVs buzz-sawed their way into and around Franklin Park for several hours in yet another onslaught of noise. Looking out of her window onto a leafy corner of Boston that she never thought could deliver so much torment, Fennell asked herself, When is this going to end? If wheelie-popping dirt bikes and all-night impromptu nightclubs characterized this past summer, the spring and summer before it featured a city under siege from illegal fireworks bursting on every corner.

Since , Bostonians have been more upset about noise than at any time in recent history. Experts say we need to start treating noise as an environmental health hazard much like polluted drinking water and dirty air. There is one big difference, though, between how noise affects our health as compared to other environmental pollutants.

A burgeoning area of research is finding that when it comes to noise, our feelings about the source of the noise and the people making it—not just the volume—determine how annoying we find it and how damaging it is to our health. As it turns out, unfamiliar or unexpected noises are the most offensive and detrimental to our well-being. That spells trouble in a place like Boston, which is growing and changing at breakneck speed. Across the city, old-timers are increasingly frustrated with the newcomers in their neighborhoods and the noises they are making, while transplants are freaking out over the noises that have always existed in the neighborhoods they now call home.

Live concerts at Fenway Park are incredible experiences for those inside the open-air stadium. For people who live nearby, however, they are a nightmare. Before the storm, there was the calm. In the early days of the pandemic, the streets were silent—devoid of commuters—while planes at Logan were all but grounded and the hard-partying college students returned to their family homes in faraway places.

An eerie, if welcome, quiet settled over the city. Then the noise returned with a vengeance. Old gripes about college students and transplants in their rented apartments throwing all-night ragers in what used to be family-friendly neighborhoods took on new urgency. And with hundreds of thousands of white-collar workers toiling away on their laptops at their kitchen tables, thundering sounds from construction projects were now hitting closer to home.

Whether Boston had actually gotten louder—which in many ways it had—was beside the point. The noise was no longer tolerable, and few residents were staying quiet about it. Police radios crackled with the sound of noise complaints at rates that most cops had never experienced. Across the city, there were more than 20, noise-complaint calls in alone, nearly twice the average of the previous five years.

By late September , police had already fielded 14, noise-related calls, and there were still three months to go in the year. One after the other, people threatened to pull up stakes and leave Boston altogether. All of this was happening at a time when researchers were coming to a fuller understanding of the health effects of noise. They have long known that excessive sound causes a loss of hearing that is often irreversible and that people who live in cities are exposed to noise much more regularly than their counterparts living in the relatively quiet bliss of the countryside.

Still, a growing body of science has observed that noise penetrates much deeper into our bodies and minds than was previously known. We have to take it seriously. Exposure to unwelcome sounds triggers stress responses, which jack up levels of cortisol and other stress hormones, leading to hypertension, heart attacks, and strokes. Every 10 decibels of additional sound increases the risk to the health of our hearts by as much as 17 percent, according to a review of medical literature published in in the medical journal The Lancet.

The same review found that in children, noise is linked to diminished cognitive performance. In pregnant women, noise is associated with higher levels of preeclampsia, according to a study in the journal Environmental Pollution. A World Health Organization study out of Europe concluded that one million healthy life-years are lost each year to noise. For generations, no one had a sense of how loud Boston was, nor how noise was making city dwellers feel. That all changed recently, though, when one researcher finally tuned into the noise around us.

After selecting a prime patch of real estate along Van Ness Street, she pulled a tripod and a small device with an antenna on top out of her backpack and started measuring the sound outside the arena. Now residents were immersed in what would be an eardrum-assaulting extravaganza that rattled the aging windows of their homes like mortar fire. The encore? A few hours more of hooting fans and bumper-to-bumper traffic snaking through winding streets, interrupting bedtime rituals like a hard-partying guest who refuses to leave.

Welcome to the jungle, indeed. Neighbors closer to, or unlucky enough to be downwind from, the park saw decibel levels spike even higher. Meanwhile, sound from baseball games barely registered any increase at all. It was the first proof neighbors had that something about living in the Fenway had drastically changed. Walker can sympathize.

Before she was an up-and-coming star in the burgeoning field of noise epidemiology, she was a furniture-maker living in a Brookline studio beneath a family with a pair of lead-footed toddlers. The sound from upstairs seemed to infiltrate her body, eliciting pangs of anxiety and rage, and pulled her away from her work.

She started taking rigorous notes on the ordeal, tape-recording the banging, measuring her blood pressure as her heart raced amid the din, and even swabbing her mouth to send saliva samples to a lab to capture stress hormones. The racket capped out at 55 decibels, 10 short of the legal allowable limit, giving her little recourse to rat out her neighbors. But as she fed this data obsessively into a spreadsheet, it became clear that this non-consensual acoustic atmosphere was having a measurable impact on her health.

Quickly, she learned that, at least in the United States, very little research was being conducted on the issue. Vowing to fill that void, Walker returned to school to earn a MS in environmental economics and urban planning from Tufts, and then a doctor of science in environmental health from Harvard. With an app called NoiseScore, she invited hundreds of Bostonians to do the same.