hi,
hoping someone knows the regulations on lighting; i couldn't find the info.
i live in a 5 story bldg surrounded by a community garden on either side, in residential upper west side manhattan. the buildings behind us, lining the garden (the backs of the buildings face us), have always had a few lights come on at night (nothing obtrusive), but last week extremely bright white lights were installed in their place, 2 for the back of each building (4 buildings total). These lights not only illuminates the small strip of space behind each building (roughtly 6 feet by 20 feet), but also floods the entire garden grounds with hallogen light which also poors into the windows of of every window in my building that faces the garden.
for some tenants, like me, our bedrooms are as bright as dawn with these lights. Everyone is very upset by them--babies aren't going to sleep easily and we are all hanging thick winter blankets over our windows at night.
what can we do? these lights are seriously disruptive