Noise in the CityNew York can be earsplitting. But city officials say Gotham is about to get a little quieter when new regulations governing jackhammers, barking dogs, barroom music and other auditory menaces take effect July 1. Even Mister Softee will have to keep it down: The ice-cream chain must now stop playing its maddening jingle when the trucks are stopped in residential areas. The new regulations represent the first revisions in the city's noise code in more than three decades.
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