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ADVANCE PHOTO ■ DIANA YATES The power plant in Rosebank continues to be a source of complaints by neighborhood residents. Lynhurst Avenue from the plant. fie its noise — will not be com­ Yizhong also said the smell of gas ■ A sound-muffling pleted until sometime in Novem­ is strong outside whenever the ber. plant is running, and the traffic wall is still not He noted the plant was called disruptions on Lynhurst have re­ finished in into service 20 days last month. duced the number of customers The average running time for the he sees. Rosebank plant was just over four hours a Leme Nikovic, owner of Inter­ day, he said. national Hair Salon, also com­ As for the popping sound, Ro­ plained about the noise and the By DIANA YATES driguez said that it was “not an ADVANCE STAFF WRITER smell of gas. environmental problem,” and that “Some people say it’s going to it was “not noise.” be OK [when the wall is finished], The New York Power Authori­ “We’re talking about three pops but it’s still going to damage the ty has revealed that a noise prob­ air,” she said. “We’re not happy at lem at its new power plant in that sound like popcorn, ” he said. “When the community expressed all. You can smell it outside — Rosebank required attention late the gas. It’s disgusting. It’s not last month. that concern [about the sound] we took immediate action.” Ro­ healthy.” Workers had to install “si­ From the time it was first pro­ lencers” on the plant to control driguez said that the popping sound was not as loud as the noise posed, Power Authority officials what Authority spokesman Luis told local leaders that the new Rodriguez described as a “popping of traffic in the neighborhood. Business owners and Residents “mi^ power plant — eventually sound” that occurred once or twice instaSed on the corner of Bay a day and disturbed those living in the area described fhe sound and working nearby. differently. Rodriguez also announced that “When it starts it sounds like a construction of a masonry wall big building falling down,” said around the plant — which is sup­ Chen Yizhong, owner and manag­ posed to hide the facility and muf- er of Kum Fung Buffet, jbst across

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