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Luxury isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
The lone residential building at the Ground Zero site is now at the epicenter of near ’round-the-clock construction noise — with tenants in the high-end 90 West St. apartments getting bombarded by jackhammer, horn and blast noises at all hours of the day and night.
The barrage of sound is the same noise that the owners of the Millennium Hotel say is driving their guests crazy, but they don’t have any idea how good they have it — the hotel is about a half-mile from the construction, while 90 West is all of 20 feet away.
“This is a luxury apartment, and the only luxury I have is this nightmare,” Nick Oram, 31, told The Post as hydraulic jackhammers battered into the concrete outside his window at about 11 p.m. “It’s like this all night, every night. It’s unbelievable.”
Decibel readings measured by The Post inside a fourth-floor apartment consistently ranged in the mid-80s to low-90s, levels the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration say can cause damage to a person’s hearing.
One reading Thursday night topped out at 101 decibels — about the sound level of a chainsaw.
It has left residents exhausted.
“It’s unbearable,” said Wall Street worker Travis Neel, 51, who has lived in the century-old landmark since 2008.
Residents say that they’ve complained to building management, the city and the site’s owner, the Port Authority, but that no action has been taken.
“The building can’t do anything, the city can’t do anything. It’s the Port Authority — they have no respect for individual rights,” Neel said.
In a statement, the agency said, “We continuously reach out to residents to update them on construction developments and minimize issues like noise.”