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Neighbors aggrieved about guests chatting on the Cooper Square Hotel outdoor patio have employed increasingly gross tactics to undermine the cachet of downtown's latest fancy hotel. When co-owner Matt Moss previously promised that tenement clotheslines were exactly "the kind of thing people want to see," while paying upwards of $300 a night at the hotel, the neighbors called his bluff by hanging increasingly soiled unmentionables in full view of the patio and rooms. Last week the underwear on display was exceptionally foul, and now Vanishing New York reports that neighbors have further escalated the situation by hanging a "Douche Bag" from the fire escape. We're not really sure what a douche bag actually looks like (besides this), and we're sure as hell not about to do a Google image search on that, so it's unclear whether the item in question is literally the infamous feminine hygiene product. (And let's just keep it unclear, k thx.) What's next, colostomy bags and roadkill? Stay tuned to the Cooper Square Douchebags blog!
Neighbors' War Against Cooper Square Hotel Gets Literal
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I'm pretty sure that's just a hot water bottle.
It's a douche bag, all right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Combination_enema_and_douche_syringe.jpg
Feces-throwing is a worthy tactic.
Co-owner Matt Moss is right. This is exactly the type of thing tourists come to new York to see. It's only adding to their experience. It gives the folks a "real new York" story when they had back to wherever they came. Quite frankly, you can potentially see much worse on almost any street corner. The neighbors need to seriously step up their game if they want to have an impact. This is child's play. Lame and ineffective.
Hi Matt!
why doesn't the hotel just shut the patio at 11pm like every other bar's outdoor area?
or does it already close at that time? my guess is that it does, or else there would be actual misdemeanors, etc.
why doesn't the hotel just build a 15 foot noise and sight buffer wall along side the residential building?
I would suggest the tenants put durian in the underwear and let it simmer in the summer sun. No one would ever go onto that patio again.
Why don't they hang used condoms, to signify the useless scumbags who frequent this joint.
Can't these wimps just toss a few water balloons are get over their foul visual statements?
The neighbors ought to spend a day collecting poo at a dog run & put it out on their fire escapes.
You can turn away from soiled knickers & douche bags, but fragrant dog poo would be harder to ignore!
All of these 'tenants' are obviously mid-western transplants; no actual new yorker would put up with this shit for more than a day or two. I think i'm going to market myself to these people - give me a week and the hotels will be begging for mercy.
all you snobs would turn your noses up on some transplanted neighbors who would get upset when a dive bar (to be frequented by REAL new yorkers!) opens up next door and makes a racket.
just be honest with yourselves and admit that you think you're better than the cooper square patrons.
I agree, these people aren't doing nearly enough, I can think of several better ideas.
1. In the middle of the night, toss a box of cockroaches/maggots/other bugs onto the patio from a rooftop. The next day, anonymously call the health department afterward and mention you saw those things when you went in for a few drinks.
2. I liked the durian fruit idea, that stuff is vomit-inducing. I can't imagine what it would be like in the sun. Other smelly things could be urine, fecal matter, rotten eggs, rotten milk, rotten mayo, etc. And move it closer to the hotel, just out of arms reach. You don't want the smell to waft away.
3. Set up a big bed sheet "screen" on one side of the block and a projector on the other. Play 2 Girls 1 Cup on a continuous loop. Don't forget to turn the volume up!
4. Set up all the surrounding rooftops with big batches of birdseed and try to run wires to go over the patio. I dunno if that's logistically possible, but check it out. Just having the birdseed might do a little bit of good.
Cmon, use your imagination people!
It's simple: bedbugs.
how about hanging rit-dyed clothing
Get some paint cans with lids. Put things like chicken fillets, Tiparos Thai Fish Sauce, urine and dog poops in there, close the lid and let ferment. Once it's nice and rank, poke large holes in the lids, string the cans along the clothesline.
Actually, maybe they should destroy them from within. Give a few crazy smelly homeless dudes 30 bucks (40 if they have body lice) each to got get drinks at the bar and just hang out.