A recent study<\/a> conducted\u00a0by Boston University’s\u00a0School of Public Health and Oregon State University found that subjection to moderate amounts of airplane noise can cause disrupted sleep of less than seven hours a night.<\/p>\nWhat the neighbors say ![\"Christlyn](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776781388_906_image.jpeg\"\/)
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Christlyn Flavius has lived in Valley Stream for 20 years. Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin<\/p>\n
Flavius said there was more noise when she first moved to the neighborhood, compared to now. And any disruption is outweighed by her love for the\u00a0community: Being able to walk to the grocery store and pharmacy, and the diversity of her neighborhood are important factors to her.<\/p>\n
“I like that it’s close to everything, like the city, and I like that I know my neighbors,” she said. “And I like to see the kids run up and down the street; it reminds me of when I was a kid.”<\/p>\n
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Ron Whelan, with his dogs Chloe and Chanel, bought this Malverne home 25 years ago. Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin<\/p>\n
Ron Whelan, of Malverne, has been living in his home for 25 years. It was the third house he and his wife looked at after they got engaged.<\/p>\n
“I fell in love with it,” said Whelan, who works in land development. “And the area is just great; it’s a great atmosphere.”<\/p>\n
His wife works at Kennedy Airport, but Whelan said he only flies between three and four times a year. Flavius has family in Grenada, so she flies there once or twice a year.<\/p>\n
As more people have moved in, Flavius and other neighbors say their block in Valley Stream has become pretty congested with street parking. While the airplane noise is more noticeable on summer days, it mostly fades into the background, she said.<\/p>\n
Maria Vera, a 28-year resident of Malverne, agreed.<\/p>\n
“It’s in the summer when the planes are flying lower, and I only really hear it when I’m outside,” Vera said. “In the summer, we run the AC and have the windows closed.”<\/p>\n
But she and her neighbors are out and about more during that time of year, because there are many pet owners on her block.<\/p>\n
“In the summer, it’s a dog parade here,” she said with a laugh.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0real estate expert’s take<\/p>\n
Kaitlynn McCartney, a real estate agent with Compass in Oceanside, said regarding clamor over\u00a0aircraft noise, her clients stay silent.<\/p>\n
“I never hear one\u00a0peep about that, from any of the new buyers that I’m working with,” she said.<\/p>\n
McCartney primarily works with millennial and Generation Z home buyers. If anything, Long Islanders who take issue with this kind of consistent noise tend to skew older, the agent said.<\/p>\n
“It’s more from the people\u00a0who have lived on Long Island\u00a0for so long, and have seen the difference” in flight noise over the years, McCartney said.<\/p>\n
But for younger buyers, specifically coming from out of town, there’s a different mindset.<\/p>\n
“If there’s somebody coming from any of the five boroughs, it’s kind of just part of their everyday living\u00a0anyway, you know,\u00a0noise of any sort,” she said.<\/p>\n
As for homes near other transportation hubs, like highways or\u00a0Long Island Rail Road stations, McCartney said buyers are split down the middle.<\/p>\n
“There are buyers that won’t even look at a house because there’s a train\u00a0around the block, and then there are buyers who want the house because the train is\u00a0around the block,” she said.\u00a0“So it really just depends on the buyer, their\u00a0needs and what their priority is.”<\/p>\n
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\n\tRachel Weiss joined Newsday in 2016. As a real estate\/living multimedia reporter, Rachel writes feature stories and contributes to and appears in on-camera video packages.\u00a0She was the lead reporter on Newsday\u2019s LI Acts of Kindness series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As an airplane rumbled\u00a0over her home in Valley Stream, Christlyn Flavius didn’t lose her train of thought. She’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,1491],"class_list":{"0":"post-204727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news","14":"tag-real-estate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}