Shrill, ear-splitting on-and-off noise torments Brooklyn neighborhood at all hours: ‘Annoying as hell’

Bedford-Stuyvesant has an aural fixation.

For well over a month, residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood have been slowly driven batty by a shrill and steady high-pitched noise of unknown origin. It interrupts their days, nights and early mornings — often for hours at a time.

Nick Grady, 37, a photographer and producer who has lived in the neighborhood since late 2019, told The Post he’s been living with the ear-splitting sound since mid-February.

“It’s been kind of coming and going whenever it feels like it,” explained Grady, who has reported the blaring noise — which once lasted for five straight hours — to the 311 hotline at least 10 times. “There’s no real consistency to it, which is bizarre.”

The noise is as loud as a passing train, according to a recording obtained by The Post, and sounds like a cross between an alien creature shrieking and a busted steam whistle.

The noise can also disappear for days. “You start thinking it’s gone or it has been fixed, but then it rears its ugly head again,” said Grady.

One night the racket woke Grady up at 3 a.m. “I sleep with ear plugs in every night, and I could still hear it,” he said.

After going several days without the clatter, Grady said it returned last weekend “with a vengeance” — but it hasn’t returned since.

Its location is almost impossible to triangulate — but there are theories.

Grady strongly believes the clangor’s coming from the building behind his: the Bed-Stuy Rehab Houses, a New York City Housing Authority-owned project, located on Willoughby Avenue.

“It’s annoying as hell,” offered a 32-year-old resident, who said she only started hearing the mystery noise last week. “It makes it hard to sleep.”

Tiffany Adams, 42, has been hearing the noise for over two months. “I have no idea what’s causing it, but it seems like it’s coming from behind the building.”

Since the start of the year, there have been at least 45 noise complaints in the immediate area, according to data from 311.

On April 4, city Department of Environmental Protection inspectors visited the area, but were unable to “locate any noise” similar to the one Grady or others have heard, a spokesperson said.

An NYCHA spokesperson told The Post that staff visited the housing project recently, “and spoke with residents throughout the building” who “reported no awareness of the noise in question.”

“My friends come over, and they think my misery is hilarious,” Grady lamented.