VENDOR JINGLES JANGLE MAYOR.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: WALTER HAMILTON Los Angeles Times

NEW YORK -- Ask most New Yorkers what constitutes noise pollution, and you'll get an earful about blaring car horns, a perennial Manhattan gripe, and people screaming into cellphones, a fast-growing irritant.

But Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a sweeping anti-noise initiative unveiled last week, is targeting an unlikely -- and some say, blameless -- noisemaker: the city's ubiquitous ice cream trucks.

Bloomberg's proposal would force the roving ice cream vendors to silence the sing-song-like jingles that ring out from their trucks as they cruise city neighborhoods. Instead, they would have to rely on …