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Mornings are tough for Brooklyn resident Meg Richichi after spending nights awake listening to the sounds of heavy construction and drilling. The sound has plagued Richichi every weekday night since she moved into her apartment in February.

"It’s just this continuous bang, bang, bang. Drilling that goes on and off all night, and its nerve-wracking," says Richichi.

"I wish they would stop the heavy work at night," she says. "If they have to do work, they have to do work, but drilling and jack-hammering, and cutting of pipes, I can’t tolerate it."

NY1 contacted the MTA and at first a spokesperson denied the agency was doing construction at night. After much back and forth, MTA officials finally admitted that NYC Transit was doing night construction on a 250-feet passageway between the Jay Street subway station and the R train at Lawrence Street.

A NYC Transit spokesman released a statement that read, "During this work, NYC Transit has followed Department of Environmental regulations for allowable noise and responded promptly to neighborhood complaints. Also, construction equipment such as jackhammers and trucks were equipped with mufflers in order to keep noise levels as low as possible. The contract was awarded in March of 2007 and the project is scheduled to be completed March of 2011."

It is little consolation to Richichi, who simply wants a good night's sleep.

NY1 will continue to follow this story.