NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- Sirens have always been a part of New York, but one petition alleges it's getting out of hand from one hospital network.
The sound of ambulances has riled up several hundred New Yorkers, who have signed a petition asking Mount Sinai to lower the volume and change the tone of its ambulances.
Upper West Side Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell started the petition.
O’Donnell writes that the "volume increase and non-standard use of Mount Sinai's sirens over the past year have become decidedly un-neighborly."
Over 750 people have signed the petition and some have left complaints of their own, including one who says ambulances still have sirens on even in the middle of the night when the street is empty.
A hospital spokesperson told the New York Post that there’s no way to lower the volume – it’s either on or off.
Mount Sinai started using a new siren two years ago in an attempt to find a less annoying, but still noticeable, sound.