Our bedroom windows face the backyards of Second Street. It’s usually pretty quiet back there. The worst noise in our life right now is the clanging of the bedroom radiator that sounds like some kind of avant-garde piece of music.

But the noise on Tuesday night. Oy. And it was really late.

According to Hepcat, Verizon has been hard at work underground, which caused them to close Second Street between 6th and 7th Avenues on Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Brownstoner a tipster says it’s repairs of underground utlities that’s causing all the racket. To make matters worse, no one had any warning that this was coming.

I mean, like,we coulda gotten some ear plugs.