Location: Corner of California Avenue and Belmont Place
Identifiable Sounds:
-Crows cawing
-Cars driving by/General traffic on Hempstead Turnpike
-Sirens(from emergency vehicles)
-Tires making contact with the concrete pavement as cars drive past
-Cars accelerating
-Rumblings of car engine
2/19/26–2:36 P.M.– Classroom in Roosevelt Hall
Farthest Sounds– cars driving on the road, car horns, sirens, doors shutting
Medium Range– footsteps, conversations from people walking past, wind blowing trees outside window, distant laughter elsewhere in the building
Close Range– pens clicking, shoes scraping on the ground, chair creaking, typing on laptops, eraser on paper, humming
Sound Level– low with a fair amount of activity
Sound Environment– focused
Necessary Sounds: conversations from people walking past, typing on laptops, pens clicking
Time: 2/19/26, 12:30pm
Place: Bits & Bytes
Identifiable Sounds: A door to the far right that creaks when it closes, a smoothie blender blending what sounds like ice, layered conversations, laughter, a woman on the phone having a conversation in Spanish, beep of a scanner, tongs tapping against counter, crinkling of paper as it’s thrown away, typing on a laptop keyboard, footsteps passing by every so often, foosteps upstairs making a low thud, metallic clinking as backpacks are picked up, backpacks zipping closed or open, keys jingling as people step.
Location: Student Center Near Freshens
Sounds: People talking, footsteps, faint music, clattering of dishes, zipping up backpack, blenders whirring
Identifiable Sounds: Carn horn beeping, keys jingling, wind ambience, distance cars on the turnpike, revving, trash cans rolling on the road, clothing shuffling, distant sounds of cars beeping, planes overhead
Time: 2-12-2026, 5:02pm
Location: Medayork, Cuban-American Fast-Food, Westbury NY
Sounds Observed: Latin music, men speaking in Spanish, spatula hitting flat top grill, slight hum from the heater.
Psibrary, 02/05/26, 1:04pm
Distant Sound:
-Muffled students chanting and yelling, repeating “Yah!” and “What?” over and over again.
-Door to the outside being opened and closed, when it’s opened you can hear wind outside.
-Muffled footsteps upstairs
General Sound:
-A low, quiet and looping whir of the boiler room.
-At times the boiler starts to pitch up, rattling rather than whirring.
Closest Sound:
-A student typing nearby and eating
-Occasional professor speaking to the student.
-Jingle of keys walking past.