Coney Island residents search for long-term solution for subway screeching

NEW YORK - Residents of several housing developments in Coney Island are fighting to find a long-term solution to what they're calling unbearable subway screeching.

Natasha Lvovich has lived in her Brightwater Towers apartment for 30 years. She learned to always have earplugs on her nightstand. 

"We are surviving with the earplugs and double windows and constant complaints," she tells CBS New York's Hannah Kliger.

Democratic State Senator Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, who represents New York's 23rd District, is trying to get a cost estimate for an acoustic enclosure as part of a capital improvement project.

"This is absolutely not the average sounds of the subway that you hear as a New York City resident. The fact that it's going around the curve creates a decibel level that's much, much higher than the average decibel level of the subway stations," she says.

MTA's annual noise abatement report shows the agency spent more than $150 million last year on noise mitigation citywide, which included track enhancements and lubrication. 

"That work hasn't been sufficient. So we're going to keep following up until we get an answer on whether or not they can do this," Scarcella-Spanton says.

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