I live in one of the outer boroughs of NYC. The houses in my neighborhood sit on mostly 40x100 lots, so backyards are small and decent people try to be considerate of their neighbors as the houses are very close.
If im working late in the garage my wife is always telling me about making to much noise. My neighbor has one of those fire pits which is illegal with in city boundaries. He uses it every so often. Outside I deal with the smoke but. the problem is when I have the windows open the smoke comes right inside the house. You cannot stay in the house its that bad and the place stinks. We dont complain and what I do is shut the windows and put on the AC.
When my wife gets on me for noise to late or to early, I like to remind her about that fire pit next door