aupiff / places-quiet

A repository of quiet places

Places quiet

A list of public places that don't play music. If you know of quiet eateries or shops, please open a pull request or email [email protected].

Quiet place data in data.yaml.

Running the mockup server

$ cd mockups
$ ./build v6

Publishing the site to S3

cd publish
stack install
cd ..
publish mockups/v6

places-quiet's Issues

Pittsburgh quiet place

Commonplace Coffee — terrace only:
6736 Reynolds St, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

new places to add

• trader's express deli, beaver st. near wall st bull
  • there seem to be a lot of quiet places near wall st; we need to spend a day wandering around reading and drinking black coffee and we'll likely be able to get most of them
• cafe 82 on broadway, diner
  • I thought I heard very faint music here--I'll go again to make sure it's queit

Type

I quite like Wremena by Roman Gornitsky

http://typefaces.temporarystate.net/preview/Wremena

It's public domain.

Support for other cities?

This could be useful when traveling, and even more useful when working on the road.

I have several Amsterdam and Utrecht locations I could add. Should they just be added to data.yml or should it be restructured to support cities?

I can make a PR for that, but won't take the effort if you prefer to keep this NYC specific.

Fairway Market locations

https://www.fairwaymarket.com/store-locator/

There are 5 locations in Manhattan alone!

San Francisco locations

• Golden Chariot Bakery, 3308 Balboa Street

Why Restaurants Are Louder Than Ever

"But ask any weary gastronaut about the single most disruptive restaurant trend over the past decade or so, and they’ll give you a succinct, one-sentence answer. It’s the noise"

http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/07/adam-platt-on-loud-restaurants.html

He recommends some potentially quiet places:

• Atera 77 Worth St, New York, NY 10013
• Eleven Madison Park 11 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010
• Per se 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10019

Would be sensible to contact food critics like Adam Platt who complain about noisy restaurants once the website is ready.

New locations

• New Amity Diner on Madison
• Burrito Mariachi
• Other Zabars on Madison

TO ADD: all three locations of Vanessa's Dumplings

• 220 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003 (verified)
• 118 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002 (verified)
• 310 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (unverified, potentially our first Brooklyn location)

Lounges?

This is probably a longshot, but would be nice to come up with lounge/date-type locations that were low or no noise. Even just low volume would go a long way.

write post about finding places quiet

read this, consider link: http://nautil.us/issue/38/noise/this-is-your-brain-on-silence-rp

move to geojson right away

Look at how nice this GeoJSON data looks. @davidmerfield I argue we should do filtering based on GeoJSON data immediately, skipping the ad hoc location filtering I started yesterday.

https://github.com/codeforamerica/click_that_hood/blob/master/public/data/manhattan.geojson