Comments on: From the Emailbag: Strange Nights on Bedford

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:23:29 +0000

Maybe it’s a little far from Greene and Bedford but I have heard the same thing described from my Decatur and Tompkin’s apartment window at around 5-5:30am. I have doubts that it’s the mosque because I live too far. It’s definitely a woman chanting from the back of the building. Quite eerie…

By: JNC

JNC — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:41:18 +0000

Yes, the mosque definitely sounds right. We hear it all the time (Gates and Bedford), and we thought it sounded like religious-like chanting and melancholy singing over a loudspeaker, especially very early in the morning on weekends.

By: Jimmy Legs

Jimmy Legs — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:47:33 +0000

whew i was afraid for a moment that bed stuy had better caterwauling cats than bushwick.

By: IRVING

IRVING — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:05:37 +0000

i think that is what they are hearing it does sound like a wailing but you are right jake that is the call to prayer at the mosque

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:48:40 +0000

Yeah, I think that’s the call to prayer from the mosque.

By: Fran

Fran — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:51:29 +0000

There’s a Mosque on Bedford and Madison, sometimes I hear them around 4am. They have quite a loudspeaker.

By: Suzi

Suzi — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:49:26 +0000

I live on Quincy at Franklin and I’ve heard what I believe was cat yowling noises a couple weeks ago– that got loud and sustained, like it was in pain, almost like a moaning. But definitely not siging.

By: Mara

Mara — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:01:42 +0000

That is crazy. I also live on Greene Ave at Bedford and my bedroom faces the backyard. Although I have heard “strange noises” at night, I’ve always shrugged it off as the sound of stray cats in heat. They can be very loud! As far as sitar-like music, that I’ve never noticed…