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You'll recall that neighbors living near the revoltingly trendy Delicatessen in Soho are getting really fed up with all the obnoxious tools blathering through the night, with one man going so far as to urinate down onto the roof, which is part glass. Could this be the same scold who led a near-riot last night, according to this priceless email sent to Eater by one witness? "Some young super-angry dude storms up to the bar and starts laying into the bartending staff screaming shit like, 'Fuck you!!! Fuck your restaurant!!! Fuck your hipstery little patrons who think they are so fucking cool!!! People fucking live on this block!!! I can hear these people screaming outside my fucking apartment all fucking night!!!'" The situation escalated "when a bunch of people in the apartments above the sidewalk tables simultaneously dumped buckets of water down on the people dining below." Worse, it wasn't even sparkling water!
Delicatessen's Soho Neighbors Not Going to Take It Anymore!
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If you have a noise complaint, you call the COPS, not this stupid BS...
"The situation escalated "when a bunch of people in the apartments above the sidewalk tables simultaneously dumped buckets of water down on the people dining below." Worse, it wasn't even sparkling water!"
Awesome. They shouldve poured boiling acid instead. damn hipsters
Buy some earplugs or move to Iceland you moron
I pass this place all the time. It looks so douchey. what do you expect when it's across from the rape site "the falls"? I kinda wanted to try it out but knowing they have urine dripping into their furniture makes me not wanna.
Sometimes you have to call people out for what they are. The guy was mad as hell and he wasn't going to take it anymore.
Furthermore; sure, he could have called the cops but he is within rights to call anyone whatever he feels free as long as it isn't complete harassment. I would think that this would be a one shot screaming not to be repeated often, if he were smart about it.
I wonder exactly around what time in the evening this was at?
Only a real NYer would do something like that.
These newbies transplants don't get it.
Next time, try oil. Hot oil.
It's time to pack up cattle cars with hipsters and send them into internal exile. I believe Denver would make an excellent gulag for these scum.
good job- throw shit out the window to keep these assholes quiet. all of the dipshits telling him to move must be from California-where the liberals live
I have to say that if you move to an apartment where there is a restaurant or club below then renter beware. Honestly if everyone in the building had a problem with the noise then maybe they can think of something a little more creative than throwing water on people.
Like the owners of this crappy place would do shit about a noise complaint? They keep shoving food and booze down their throats, overcharge the hell out of them and fuck everyone else. I think throwing water on them is being kind...
I know people in SoHo who are at their wits end with irresponsible restaurant/cafe owners abusing their presence in the neighborhood. They have been living there for 25 years. Its not the "hipsters". Its the owners of the cafes who don't give a shit. Its the owners who are from out of town or out of country who feel that they are within their "rights" to do whatever the fuck they please because they are making money in big bad NYC. Call the community liason from the local precinct. They will come down there and lean on the owners, cousin Vinnie style. I have seen it happen. Really go down to the precinct and talk to them. Get them to support you. That seems to work.
cops don't handle noise complaints, you call 311 and they log in the complaint. no name.
if you call in enough complaints they may ask you to write in a formal written complaint with your name and address. I'll try the community affairs officer at the precinct next time but I have a feeling money talks.
you fight fire with fire.
I'm always in favor of citizens taking matters into their own hands.
DEATH WISH-style vigilantism is up next for NYC.
it's perfectly legal to clean your windows. If you use water to clean your windows and the water drips down to the downstairs then it's fine. Who does the restaurant sue when it rains? god?
The devil is at play with any person that
has to help people get drunk for their own
living. Go tenants drop pee on em.
You were there first.
Bars suck and are for people to forget
the misery of there empty ego ridden lives,hmmmmmmmmm maybe
dat ain't so bad?
Free golden showers with your meal.....cool.
Buffa's diner was there before... neighborhood greasy spoon diner. They were only open in the day.
Sounds like Sean Sweeney!
A good friend of mine lives in the building, except on the opposite side of the "deli", and he says there are bunch of wankers that hang out there. And he also said, "He didn't do it." I don't believe him. That's why we are still friends.
Woah. The level of hatred on here is rather disturbing...
Bloomberg has turned this city into a playground. He has greatly diminish our quality of life in NYC.
...Someday a real (yellow) rain will come and wash all the newbie scum off the streets...
Maybe the only good thing to come out of the new economic recession/depression is that the old NY will come back a bit. first up against the wall when the revolution comes = hipsters.
This eatery, Delicatessen, is not across from the Falls bar - it's about a block and half away. The business that occupied the space for years was Buffa's, a quiet, not-so-inviting neighborhood coffee shop. I never went there except on the morning after the blackout of '03, when that was the only place in the neighborhood serving hot coffee.
Is exactly right. This Nolita neighborhood seems to attract a certain type of trashy European businessperson who is hoping to conjure a kind of 70's Soho hipness mixed with a LES fashionista sensibility. So Delicatessen ends up catering to tourists and uptown folks "slumming" it downtown - kind of like Schillers over on Rivington Street. The restauranteurs erected a glass ceiling over the interior courtyard of this apartment building, so as customers sit below on couches with drinks in hand, music thumping away, angry residents watch from above -- no doubt planning their modes of attack.
You will never, ever, evvvvvvvver find a "hipster" hanging out in SoHo after work hours. Ever. So god knows what you people are bitching and moaning about. It's more likely Eurotrash or Jersey/Long Island types ... Manhattan is in no way 'cool' these days.
These people are yuppies, not hipsters.
I know that place... it's about as non-hip as you can imagine. I pass it twice a day every day, and not once did I see a hipster anywhere near it.
Nor would I go inside myself. It's one of those places that attracts a mix douchey yuppies, newcomers, and tourists. The type of people that would, you know, be obnoxiously loud, just because they are in New York and they have money.
Oh boy, here we go.
This place is not a hipster bar. It's a bunch of douchy stripey-shirt yuppies and loud Jersey/Long Islanders. Have you ever even seen this place? I mean think about it, who actually hangs out in SoHo?
Man, anytime that something happens in this city that people don't like, hipsters are mysteriously the culprit. If you're white and under 30 you're a apparently hipster. Whatever that means. And please stop acting like newcomers are a problem. NYC transplants are among the most important and vital citizens of this city. NYC would not be what it is without them.
Could someone please list the exact criteria you require to live and/or visit New York City, Soho, Nolita, Prince Street, the sidewalk that runs in front of your apartment, the building where you live?
This rhetoric is absurd. It's comforting to know that most of you are too dimwitted and lazy to organize and actually do something dangerous.
Instead, you prefer to blather on the web. If you can't think, and thinking seems to be quite a challenge for most of you, about how to effectively and civilly change your miserable lives, then you leave it up to those who will decide for you. Apparently you're used to that, otherwise you wouldn't be here ranting and WHINING.
Shame on Gothamist, the Fox News of the neighborhood. People are already resorting to harmful physical acts, great job of egging them on to escalate it.
@felixthecat:
You're right. And no place is safe! A few months ago I moved into a quiet, residential, outer-borough neighborhood, full of middle- and working-class families. There was a restaurant next door, with a quiet back patio where people would sit and enjoy meals when the weather was nice. A month after I moved in, the restaurant closed and reopened as: a bar. A noisy bar. Now, the backyard area is packed with loud drunks at all hours of the night, and I've been jolted out of bed at 3:00 a.m. by music blasting so loud it sounds like I've got it playing on high volume in my bedroom. I've had to call the bar to complain; I've had to call the cops when the bar wouldn't pick up the phone or do anything about their noisy patrons. And this bar is completely surrounded by low-rise apartment buildings, bodegas, and a laundromat or two. There's nothing around for blocks but what used to be residential peace and quiet.
I work a 9-to-5, pull in a modest middle income, and I get up early on weekends to volunteer with kids. When I come home at 6:00 p.m. on a Tuesday, I have to call up the bar owner and insist that he stop blasting his music so loud that I can't hear my TV, read a book, or concentrate on getting work done. I've heard my neighbors shouting obscenities out their windows in the middle of the night at this fine establishment's rude employees, who seem to feel that they can play music at 4 a.m. when the bar is closed and they're out back cleaning up. I'm about to STOP volunteering because I can't sleep on Friday nights and it's taking a toll on me to drag myself out of bed on Saturday mornings.
The problem is not "transplants" (I am one, and I'm trying to make a living and contribute to my community instead of partying all the time) or "hipsters" (this bar's patrons are middle-aged people and eurotrash) or Sex-and-the-City wannabes (again: middle-aged people and eurotrash). The problem is that bar owners and patrons seem to feel that they can party 24/7, generate as much unnecessary noise as they want, show no attention or respect to their neighbors, and make no effort to fit in with the community, even if their actions decrease the quality of life of other people, and prevent other people from enjoying their apartments. And by "enjoying their apartments," I don't mean absolute silence. I can live with sirens, honking cars, occasional construction noises and shouts on the sidewalk, and the other normal sounds of urban life. What I can't live with is someone blasting that godawful "Umbrella" song at top volume and drowning out my phone calls and my television and my OWN music. It's the bar's patrons, not the young families and immigrants and retirees in the neighborhood, who don't seem to understand that they live in a dense urban environment with other people. If they want to scream and shout and blast techno music outdoors at 3:00 a.m., fine: they can find a nice rural area where there's nothing and nobody around for miles, and have at it. But if they're going to locate themselves near people who have to sleep at night, then they should shut up. Keep the noise INSIDE the bar -- it WON'T kill you to be indoors at 3:30 a.m.
this used to be buffa's? that's a shame, this was a great place to get breakfast and the workers were great people.
seems to me buffa's had been there for decades but like OK hardware around the corner, small neighborly businesses are doomed in soho.
i think it's funny. i hope it was toilet water, already flushed of course. i mean if it were hot water i could see what everyone's so upset about. but then again i tend not to sit at outdoor yuppie joints. but maybe that's just me. i hope they keep up the good work. peace out.
Excellent 411, drewo. Eurotrash? Oh that's easy: treat them to a nice Correctional Coctail. Just take an empty gallon milk jug, fill it with urine, feces, shaving cream, and the dregs from last nights beers and get it all nice and creamy. Brew it awhile like fine Pruno and then, when the mood is right, indulge our wonderful friends from Euroland with a refreshing spray of 'Eau De Attica'. problem solved
As someone who has lived in this neighborhood for 20 years, I can attest that not only has the noise situation gotten out of control, but that calling the cops (or 311) about said nose situation is a waste of time. This has gone from a quiet neighborhood of working class people to a Eurotrash/bridge-and-tunnel theme park on a par with the Meatpacking district. While I don't advocate violence, I can certainly understand this person's frustration.
I feel their pain! I live in between 2 bars, one is a wanna be mob joint, the other a gay bar. If it isn't the hideous lounge lizard singer coming through 2 brick walls into my bedroom, it's the shrill, drunken, show tune schreeching under my window. Calling said establishments does nothing, and the police do even less. Don't get me wrong, I do understand that this is New York, and by no means do I expect absolute quiet...but the residence should be taken into consideration. If your patrons are loud, obnoxious, drunk...DO SOMETHING!! Your liquor/caberet license is a privledge, not a right. And to the various community board members who keep granting permits, how about allowing a bar to open under/next/across from where you live. Oh, and the water...a nice touch...it's simple and it says it all.
Community Boards and their members don't grant Liquor Licenses. That is the provence of the State Liquor Association, the SLA as it is known.
CB's operate on a shoestring budget, and that shoestring was chopped in half just this year. Most CB members are volunteers, not paid employees. You can learn more about your CB on the web.
The calendar of meetings, including businesses applying for liquor licenses, is posted every month on the CB websites. Further, notices are posted in the immediate vicinity of the business seeking liquor licenses, prior to the CB meeting. The community has the opportunity to attend those meetings and gather information and intent of the business that are seeking licenses. If not one shows up to ask, oppose, just give their opnion, the Board assumes everyone is ok with it and sends that recommendation to the SLA.
Having attended some of those meetings and witnessed the generally dismal turnouts, most of you are getting exactly what you deserve.
is there anything more tedious than the neverending litany of comments either deriding hipsters (who seem to encompass anyone annoying at this point) or worshipping oneself as a 'real new yorker'? seriously. there's PLENTY of REAL new yorkers who are loud, inconsiderate and annoying and there's plenty of "hipsters" who don't bother anyone. just cause you've lived in NY for 8 years or whatever doesn't mean everyone who acts like an asshole just moved from ohio last week.