Cross said the agreement he made with neighbors several months ago amounted to "pretty significant restrictions on the hours that the landscapers are allowed to work."

"We do everything we can to be good neighbors," said Cross. "I encourage neighbors to contact me if there are these or other problems."

Another neighbor Martha P. Kim called Cross efforts comendable.

"I've found the Divinity School to be more than accommodating and concerned," she said.

Kim complained a few years ago about the noise from trucks delivering food to the school cafeteria, which were leaving their engines idling for long periods of time. Cross solved the problem, she said.

But Dooley said idling noise is the least of the problems created by the trucks. He says trucks block traffic and create potholes in the street.

"It's a one way one lane residential street, and tractor trailers that come every day are killing it," Dooley said.

Divinity School neighbors are not the only Francis St. residents to complain about noise from Harvard facilities. A couple living at 21 Francis St. field suit in April in a effort to force the University to address noise coming from the Biological Laboratory building at 16 Divinity Avenue.