BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A mysterious, headache-inducing tone has been tormenting a Bed-Stuy block for more than six weeks and locals can't find the source or escape the sound.

Drew Robbi, 42, first heard the sound last weekend when his wife pointed it out to him inside their home near Madison Street and Franklin Avenue. "My wife said to me, that noise is really bad," Robbi said. "I said, 'What noise?'"

"And then I heard it." @NYPDONeill @NYCMayor @nytimes @nypost @News12BK high pitch Noise causing headaches and mental stress in Brooklyn. Some hearing it for week and others for days...for me it is getting louder. Help.... Madison street/Franklin ave. Listen pic.twitter.com/iMjJHbAUTj

— Drew Robbi (@RobbiDrew) June 24, 2019 The mysterious tone has been sounding intermittently on Madison Street since mid-May and neighbors have reported headaches, painful sinus pressure and increased stress, Robbi said.



City data shows there have been about a half dozen 311 street noise complaints on the block since the tone first began. Robbi's own frustration mounted when he realized it was inside his home.

"I couldn't run away from it," Robbi said. "I went inside it was still piercing."

The source of the sound has proven difficult to track down because it never changes its pitch, Robbi said.

"If it's emanating from a house it would get higher, but that's not been the experience," he said. "It's even throughout the whole block." Robbi reported the sound to Con Edison and local police, but a Con-Ed representative told him it wasn't coming from their equipment. An NYPD operator, who told Robbi she could hear the tone on her side of line, promise to send investigators, he said.