One of My Neighbors Has a Rooster and Its Driving Me Crazy

I'm about to call PETA

I have had insomnia my entire life. I later learned that it was due to my extreme anxiety. Thankfully, 2 years ago I finally found a medicine that worked for me and calms my anxiety, causing me to finally be able to go to sleep at night. However, my neighbor’s rooster is threatening all of my progress by waking me up every morning.

For context, I am from Arkansas. I am used to my neighbors having barn animals. But, not in the middle of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I don’t know if they recently got this rooster or if it just started waking me up but I need to STOP. I already had trouble sleeping because of my cat, Davey. He usually wakes me up in some way every night. Whether it be knocking all of my books out, biting my face, knocking everything off my desk, or just meowing until I let him into my living room. It’s important to note that he usually wakes me up about an hour before my alarm goes off as well. But let’s say that Davey decides to let me sleep one night and the rooster doesn’t wake me up. There is a third reason why I can’t get a good night’s sleep, my downstairs neighbor.

My downstairs neighbor insists on playing his reggae music at maximum volume every morning. This has been going on for a year and a half since I’ve lived in this apartment but I did decide to finally say something recently. It didn’t do much but just delay the time in which he plays his music, which I guess is something. I also have to mention that I can still hear his music with my window closed. Sometimes I can ever hear it with my music playing above it. If you don’t live in New York you may not understand that even with the radiator on you sometimes have to open the window to balance the temperature out.¹ Therefore, I usually need my window to be open or I will be sweating. So if I close my window I will be hot and still hear his music. If I open my window I will be comfortable but still hear his music. So I usually just open it and privately curse him.

Anyways, back to the rooster. My question is why does one need a rooster in Bed-Stuy? I cannot see the rooster from my bedroom which means that it may not even be in my immediate vicinity. What causes someone to get something so inconvenient and inconsiderate for a neighborhood without even having farm animals? I recently realized that the rooster may be the cause of Davey waking me up thus causing the chain reaction of him terrorizing me.

Not to mention you aren’t even allowed to have a rooster in the city!!!

So this is my dilemma Jury, do I call someone and have them figure out who has this rooster so I can finally get some sleep? Or do I leave it alone and just suffer more sleepless nights until I move out in the fall? I don’t like snitching on people because I don’t want stitches but it’s unlikely that they will even know it’s me. There is also the problem of me not knowing where exactly it’s coming from. I am just looking for any advice on what to do. I also have tried earplugs and playing sleep music while I sleep but the earplugs don’t work and the rooster is sometimes louder than my music!!

Help me Jury what should I do??? I need sleep!!!

1. This may not be a NYC specific thing but lets just go with it