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The Studio School is a private elementary school that has been relocated to two adjoining brownstones on West 95^th Street. The school began construction on these sites in 2005 when the pre-existing buildings had been demolished and major excavation ensued.

We are now in March 2008 and I am still privy to the lovely noises of construction outside my bedroom window.

For the past 2 and a half years that I have been living in my apartment, I have been graciously woken up before 7AM, Monday through Saturday, from drilling, sawing, workers yelling, Hispanic music blaring from radios. And incessant banging.

This morning it was a strange wooshing sound - torching! - that sounded as if an airplane was taking off in my backyard. And as I write this blog post, the wooshing has evolved into more drilling.

There have been neighborhood complaints over the years, even building petitions, but to no avail. The school opened to students this past fall, and work is still being done outside! Three years to construct a building the size of a brownstone? It’s really incomprehensible. The work over the past few months has been to the terrace where apparently the students are to have recess.

Anyone out there like to express their shared pain? Does anyone out there know if this is ever going to end???

Now I hear torching AND drilling.