Feud Between Cooper Square Hotel and Neighbors Escalates

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It hasn't been open very long, but neighbors residing uncomfortably close to the new $100 million Cooper Square Hotel on the Bowery are already fed up with the noise reverberating from the hotel's various outdoor areas—which was only to be expected considering how many have bedroom windows facing the place. (Some just inches away from the outdoor bar!) To chronicle the escalating complaining, Vanishing New York has started a feature called "Notes from the Backside," and the first winning entry concerns one neighbor's pitched battle with the patio lounge: "About 2 a.m.a drunk woman came out to the patio and wondered at its beauty. I pulled out the megaphone and said in a store announcer kind of voice 'Attention Cooper Square Hotel douchebags: shut the hell up and get off the patio.' Didn't work. She said 'That makes my new york experience complete' and continued to yammer away. The hotel made a half-hearted effort to get her out of there." With warm weather finally here, we give it a week before neighbors go full Delicatessen on the noisemakers and unleash the bodily fluids.

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By John Del Signore in News on May 19, 2009 3:50 PM

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Dead Himmler

Good point.

jeff

Wait. Where are all the real, born and bred New Yorkers who think only wussy transplants complain about noise? These people who are whining about this hotel are obviously from Ohio.

widefive

That hotel on Cooper Square is downright hideous. Who'd want to stay in that thing?

eringobiteme

Gee, sounds just like Orchard St's problem with the pigs at the Thompson LES hotel. Their unbridled contempt for the people who live by them did not stop with their years long, illegal immigrant worker powered, rat infested construction period. Oh no. Now its the parties also inches from neighbors' windows and the double parked idling SUVS. For awhile, they had all night rap karaoke. They are the last word in evil.

JacqueMehoff

anyone wanna buy some M80's? KaBOOM.

Tgirl

the whole thing is ludicrous, really. Most clueless revelers are from out of town (or at least the borough); if anyone pulled this stuff where they come from believe me it would not fly. For some reason the residents of NYC are supposed to put up w/ this sort of thing. Hope those neighbors have a few dozen eggs handy, it can only get worse in the summer...

Trilby16

In a crowded metropolis such as ours, one person's outdoor amusement can be another person's hell on earth. I totally sypmathize with the neighbors. No one owns the ourdoors. People must be considerate of others and have their fun in a way that doesn't impinge.