As “The Lion King” has a triumph return to Broadway, its ads has been causing a nuisance underneath in the subways. The feds actually require that employers take protective measures if workplace noise exceeds 85 decibels. That’s louder than a motorcycle engine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The spot registered 99.1 decibels on The Post’s sound pressure level meter last week. “I feel pretty annoyed,” Mark Hoopes, 36, a landscape architect, told The Post after he heard the ad while waiting for a downtown 6 train at 77th St. The recorded messages blare the famous Zulu lead-in to “Circle of Life,” before advising straphangers that the long-running musical is back on Broadway. That’s what straphangers are asking themselves after being jolted by ear-splitting “Lion King” ads that are turning subway platforms into the cement Serengeti. Man miraculously survives after being struck by NYC trainĭoes this maddening chorus really need to be part of our circle of life? Straphanger stabbed in NYC subway this morning, cops say Man dead after jumping NYC subway turnstile, breaking neck MTA says to expect longer waits to due COVID crew shortages
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