QUEENS, N.Y. - Bayside is a quiet neighborhood — very quiet. That's why when flight patterns changed people noticed.

"At some points it sounds like you're trying to crank a lawn mower and it just won't start," said Jena Lanzetta, a Bayside resident.

Lanzetta says plane noise has always been a part of living in Queens which is home to the city's two major airports. But in the last seven years she's noticed planes flying lower and the noise louder and more frequent.

"There are some days, weeks, months where we experience anywhere between 30 and 50 flights an hour," Lanzetta said.

According to officials, the noise increased after the Federal Aviation Administration switched the air traffic control system from radar to satellite-based navigation, an initiative called NextGen, to increase airline safety and efficiency. But Congresswoman Grace Meng says it also changed the flight patterns over Northeast Queens without any community input.

"The excessive airplane noise, the frequency of the airplanes really effects our constituents and everyday health of our American citizens," Meng said.

Now Meng has teamed up with nearly two dozen Congress members across the nation calling for the Government Accountability Office to review not just the impact of NextGen technology but how the FAA has responded to community noise complaints across the country.

"We want to know what level of community input has been taken and what the community can do to make sure that they are not impacted so severely," Meng said.

In addition, Meng is hoping to pass legislation to open a noise office within the Environmental Protection Agency to better monitor the frequency of airline noise.

The FAA did not respond to NY1's request for comment.