Mr. Brooks, who lives a block from Zuccotti Park, groaned; the pounding had become a persistent irritant — with no sign of letting up until winter’s end.
Outside, below his windows, the perpetrators carried on without pause, jack-hammering through concrete and rock at the World Trade Center site.
“ is controllable; the construction is not,” said Mr. Brooks, an architect who has lived in a loft on Cedar Street for 20 years. “The problem is you can’t get any sleep.”
As the Occupy Wall Street protest nears its third month, Lower Manhattan residents who live nearby have alternately grown more accustomed to it or increasingly aggrieved. Foremost among complaints are the protesters’ daily drumming sessions, which, some neighbors say, jangle nerves, scare young children, disrupt homework and make working at home impossible.
But other residents said the protesters’ drumming paled alongside the near-constant din of construction emanating from the World Trade Center site, which has often started before dawn and gone on past 2 a.m.
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