New York Campaign in the Press Reuters "New Yorker Dreams of a City Where He Can Sleep", by Sinead Carew, January 15, 2004 Financial Times "Big Apple mulls idea of mufflers on car alarms", by Christopher Grimes, January 23, 2004 The Independent (UK) "New York Stories: This is the sound of the summer", by David Usborne, May 30, 2004 New Yorker "Cause for Alarm", by Karen Loew, January 5, 2004 Christian Science Monitor "Remember the Sound of Silence?", by Mark Clayton, April 15, 2004 New York Times "Honk if You Hate Car Alarms", Editorial, June 27, 2004 "Shushing the Big City", Editorial, June 9, 2004 "Car Noise, Car Alarm, Cacophony", by Dan Barry, May 26, 2004 "Walling Out the City That Never Sleeps", by Rie Woodward, April 1, 2004 "Alarming Data on Security Alarms", by John Rather, January 25, 2004 "Orthodox Jews and Car Alarms: What Does the Talmud Say?", by Denny Lee, January 11, 2004 "In City Streets, an Unwelcome Sentry", Editorial, December 15, 2003 "All That Noise for Nothing", by Aaron Friedman, December 11, 2003 (letters about this op-ed here) "Looking for a Good Word about the Car Alarm", by Kelly Crow, March 16, 2003 New York Daily News "Honked Off Over Car Alarms", by Frank Lombardi, May 26, 2004 "Ban Car Alarms? They Disrupt Life and Don't Work", by Aaron Naparstek, July 8, 2003 "Ban Car Alarms? They Offer Necessary Protection", by Douglas K. Johnson, July 8, 2003 (letters about this op-ed here) "Plan for Ban Alarms Pols", by Michael Saul, June 12, 2003 "City Council's Alarming Trend", by Frank Lombardi, May 1, 2003 "Pushing to Drive Out Car Alarms", by Pete Donohue, March 13, 2003 New York Post "City Set to 'Sound Off'", by Frankie Edozien, May 26, 2004 "Bid to Muffle Car Alarms", by Sara Stewart, February 1, 2004 "Pols Weigh Car Alarm Ban", by Frankie Edozien, June 12, 2003 "There Auto Be a Law: Councilwoman Bashes Car Alarms", by Frankie Edozien, May 1, 2003 amNewYork "'Honk You,' Advocates Say to Car Alarm Owners", by Chuck Bennett, May 26, 2004 "Missing the Sound of Silence", by George Jochnowitz, April 9, 2004 (scroll to page 8) "AM New York Minute: Aaron Friedman", by Erica Pierson, April 6, 2004 New York Observer "Ban Car Alarms", Editorial, June 7, 2004 New York Sun "Impotent Alarms: Brian C. Anderson calls for a ban on useless disturbers of the peace", by Brian Anderson, November 17, 2004 "On Silencing Parked Cars", by Brian C. Anderson, July 14, 2003. This article also ran in the City Journal ("Silence of the Alarms", July 10, 2003), and in the Policy Digest of the National Center for Policy Analysis ("Silencing Car Alarms in New York City", August 26, 2003). New York Press "Way to Legislate", Editorial, June 2-8, 2004 WNBC 4 News "Stolen Sleep", by Ralph Penza, February 17, 2004 New York 1 Television "City Council Considers Ban on Car Alarms", by Michael Scotto, June 11, 2003 "Queens Residents Battle Against Noisy Car Alarms", by Ruschell West, March 13, 2003 CBS 2 News "Sounds of Silence?", by Penny Crone, June 9, 2003 BBC Radio 4 "The Car Alarm", September 8, 2003 BBC Brasil "A voz do silencio", by Lucas Mendes, January 13, 2004 WINS Radio 1010 "New Yorkers Sound Off on Car Alarms", June 11, 2003 WFUV 90.7 FM "The Case Against Car Alarms in New York City", Cityscape with George Bodarky, July 12, 2003 (in mp3 format here) WBUR Radio (Boston) "New York Ponders Car Alarm Ban", Here and Now, December 16, 2003 Mainstream Media Project "Who Owns This Place Anyway?", A World of Possibilites, January 17, 2006 Gotham Gazette "The Case Against Car Alarms", by Aaron Friedman, July 7, 2003 Tri-State Transportation Campaign "Bloomberg Backs Car Alarms", June 16, 2003 "Ban Car Alarms!", March 17, 2003 Noise Regulation Report "New Yorkers debate ban on car theft alarms", July 2003 Neighborhood Newspapers West Side Spirit, "City Could Be the First to Outlaw Car Alarms: Bill's proponents call devices useless", by Charlotte Eichna, April 22, 2004 Carrol Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, "Outlaw That Noisy Car Alarm? Supporters Say Measure Would Improve City Life", by Gary Buiso, March 22, 2004 Manhattan Times, "Silencing Alarms", Editorial, March 4-10, 2004 Columbia Spectator, "Legislation Banning Car Alarms on Council's Agenda", by Carla Zanoni, January 27, 2004 The Norwood News, "Ban Car Alarms Now!", Editorial, December 18, 2003 Brooklyn Skyline, "Silencing Car Alarm Myths", by Drew Robertson, December 8, 2003 Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News, "Hills and Gardens: Car Alarms", by Trudy Whitman, August 7, 2003 The Times Newsweekely of Queens, "Car Alarm Ban Being Considered", by Rob MacKay, July 17, 2003 The Staten Island Advance, "Little noise is made on Island about car alarms", by David Andreatta and Michael Wagner, July 11, 2003 The Times Newsweekly of Queens, "Editorial", July 10, 2003 The Western Queens Gazette, "Liu: 'Car Alarms Don't Block Car Theft'", June 18, 2003 The Western Queens Gazette, "Liu Seeks Car Alarm Ban", I on Politics column by John Tuscano, June 11, 2003 Norwood News, "An Idea Whose Time Has Gone", March 27, 2003 Inside Fordham, "Car Alarms Do Little But Annoy Cityfolk, According to Panel", by Michele Snipe, April 2003 Out-of-Town Newspapers Car Free Times, "All That Noise...For Nothing", March 11, 2004 Local Government International Bureau (UK), "Lullaby of Broadway", January 27, 2004 Austin Chronicle (TX), "Killing Car Alarms", by Jim Hightower, The Hightower Report, January 16, 2004 News Sun (Chicago), "Even insurers say those shrieking car alarms are useless", by Ralph Zahorik, January 10, 2004 Morning Call (PA), "Dump the Decibels?", by Tim Blangger, July 15, 2003 (with sidebar). This article has also been reprinted in the Hartford Courant (CT) and the Holland Sentinel (MI). People Newspapers (TX),"Ban Car Alarms?", Editorial, December 2003 Reaction from the Car Alarm Industry AutoMedia, "Silence of the 'Larms", by Brett Solomon, August 2003 Mobile Electronics, "Noise Still a Problem for Car Audio", by Gregory Arroyo, May 2003 Car and Travel Monthly, "Alarming Sounds in the City that Needs Its Sleep", October 2003 Directed Electronics Press Release, "Directed Testifies Against NYC Car Alarm Ban Proposal", June 12, 2003 Consumer Electronics Association, "CEA Testifies in Opposition to NYC Proposal to Ban Car Alarms"(available as a pdf file), by Doug Johnson, in "CEA Government Alert", pp.2, June 17, 2003 Audio Video International, "Opposition Making Noise: Activists Focus on Car Audio and Security Issues", by Micah Sheveloff, September 2003 Vancouver Campaign in the Press CBC News, British Columbia "Car alarm crackdown in Burnaby", February 10, 2004 "Car Alarms Could Be Banned in Vancouver", January 13, 2004 CTV News "Vancouver considering noisy car alarm ban", January 14, 2004 National Post "A wakeup call for car alarms: Bans planned", by David Menzies, February 13, 2004 Globe and Mail "Silence car alarms, critics say", by Jane Armstrong, January 16, 2004 Vancouver Sun "Car alarm solution doesn't lie in a ban", Editorial, January 16, 2004 "Councillor seeks car alarm ban", by Petti Fong and David Hogben, January 15, 2004 "Councillor proposes ban on noisy car alarms", January 13, 2004 Edmonton Journal "Message to car alarms: Shut up and go away", by Paula Simons, January 27, 2004 Vancouver Province "Council to Consider Ban on Car Alarms", by Sophie Lui, March 24, 2004 "Car alarms: Should they be banned?", by John Bermingham and Lena Sin, January 15, 2004