1.0 link 221101 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-abeel/noise-pollution_b_221101.html Never mind the number of stars garnered by an eatery or even the tab. The main criterion for me when it comes to New York dining (and New York East aka the Hamptons) is whether you can hear your dining companion(s). To judge by noise levels in the city's restaurants, it's apparently de rigueur to have one or more women on hand shrieking like banshees. It's never the men shrieking -- one of their many virtues -- just the women....

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