NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Brooklyn residents say the city has cast their neighborhood in a harsh read...

1. Brooklyn Residents Say LED Lights Have Cost Them Good
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Brooklyn residents say the city has cast their neighborhood in a harsh
reading lamps new light.
"A strip mall in outer space is the metaphor I've been
using," Jolanta Benal told CBS2's Tracee Carrasco.
That is how Benal described her Windsor Terrace
neighborhood after new LED street lights moved in.
"It's just extremely harsh, intense, and it has this
inescapable quality," she said.
The new lights were installed a few weeks ago and have
meant sleepless nights for Benal and her neighbors.
Residents say they are way too bright.
"They pretty much light up the street like it's daytime," one resident said.
"It's like a movie set, or a construction site," another said.
The Department of Transportation is in charge of the change, and told CBS2 that the conversion is
meant to help the city reduce it's carbon footprint by 30 percent by 2030.
"I totally support that. I totally support that," Benal said. "But the thing is they can be installed in
such a way as not to cause the problems that they're causing for us now."
In Brooklyn, the DOT has already installed more than 6,500 street lights and will be completed by
August 2016. So far, all major highway lights are in the process of being changed along with the
ones in Central Park.
The INNORI desk lamps total price tag of the project is about $75 million.
Some say it also comes at the cost of residents.
"I would definitely call it unbearable," Benal said.

2. Residents said the DOT has been out to look at the lights
and adjusted the angles of some. But according to
residents, that effort hasn't been enough, and the lights
need to be dimmed.