It’s music to their ears.

City regulators are making a bid to address the bane of New Yorkers’ existence: noise!

The city Department of Environmental Protection will require major construction projects that operate “after hours” to install noise meters in an effort to bring down the racket to reasonable levels.

The new rule would cover construction sites of at least 200,000 square feet that border residential areas.

Construction workers at the site for the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan on Oct. 2, 2025. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

The city received more than 700,000 311 noise complaints of all kinds last year, top of any category of gripe in the Big Apple.

The DEP said it received more than 20,000 complaints just for “after hours” construction noise in 2023, s

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