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The saga on Jane Street continues, as neighbors unite against the Jane Hotel's nightlife crowd. Andrea Peyser pens a piece about the battle, pitting children with asthma ("every night, choking smoke fills the family's living space") against bold-faced party-goers like the Kate Winslet and Edward Norton. Yep, the modern-day Tiny Tim lives in a multi-million dollar Manhattan home with a backyard!
The scene painted isn't exactly pretty (broken beer bottles, cigarette butts, blaring music, drunken crowds, used condoms, the Olsen twins)... but this is New York City. However, the NIMBY parental units who want their fancy zip code and their children not in earshot of club noise, declare: "It's a nice, quiet family street. And no one's getting enough sleep!"
The neighbors have now hired PR man Ken Frydman and have formed a coalition called Jane Street Neighbors United; as previously mentioned you can follow along via Twitter and their blog. At this time, the Jane Hotel says that "a lot of these issues have been rectified. It's a process. It's not going to happen overnight."
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Sounds like some people could use a dose of compromise.
amusing how people in/near the village think that they live in legitimate "neighborhood".
it just looks like sesame street, okay? you're actually all billionaires.
Cry me a river. Try living above a bar with an open rooftop party space, open till 2 each night. The best part is walking my dog in the morning, I never know how many puddles of vomit we'll encounter.
Also, aren't Kate Winslet and Ed Norton a little old to be partying with the Olsens? I would think they'd run in different circles...
NYC is not a neighborhood for kids. If you are raising kids... move to a suburb. What the hell is wrong with you.
Many of us who were raised here would disagree.
FYI, you don't need a gasmask in the city either.
And what suburb were you raised in that makes you an expert on city kids?
Anyone who defends the B&T jerks and Eurotrash probably takes the B & T to visit us.
Gosh darn those people who actually live in NYC and want to sleep where they live, and who don't just roll over and faint with glee when a nightclub opens on their street that keeps them up all night.
And what suburb were you raised in that makes you an expert on city kids?
Any one who defends B&T jerks and Eurotrash probably take the B & T to visit us.
based on the amount of effort the residents are putting in against the Jane Hotel, you can officially put this club on death watch.
when it comes time for them to renew their liquor license - which requires community board approval, it will get rejected, just like what happened to the Beatrice Inn.
Actually, the community board only provides a recommendation to the State Liquor Authority. The SLA can still approve the license, with or without community board consent.
(Studio B in Brooklyn had their application rejected by CB1, but the SLA still went ahead and approved the liquor license, community be damned.)
I love how people who never lived here are instant experts and master historians who know all about making broad spurious baseless statements about nightlife. There is no imperative for any nightclub to disturb the neighborhood whatsoever and absolutely no justification for it. There is no reason for any nightclub to make any discernible noise outside the door. There is no compelling reason to allow a nightclub to operate in a residential neighborhood. If you have a problem with that you are stupid. I lived next door to what became a nightmare til 5 AM five nights a week on a residential street and it took four years for the club to close and the noise to go away. Before it was a nightclub it was a gay bar and there was never the slightest sound heard coming from the place for the four years it operated and never any disturbances ever - not one. Nothing good comes from these sleazy dumps anyway, just put them all where nobody lives so we can get some damn sleep. Just shut them the hell up - if they want respect for nightlife, they have to respect the people who don't live that way, period.
Slightly off-subject, gay nightclubs are held to a completely different standard and God help them if they make even a noticeable peep or they will be shut down by Police and the NYFD for "code violations" in the blink of an eye, as history has shown, so why can't these holes operate along the same lines? There's never a plausible response to that.
you're right. the community board can only pass recommendations. Most of the time, the SLA does follow the CB's recommendation
This reminds me of the people who live near the Metro-North tracks in Peekskill and are complicating about the train horns waking them up at night.
Research the area BEFORE you live in it. Duh.
Dummy: the people lived there BEFORE this joint opened.
How ignorant are you?
This building has had operations like this since at least the 70's, way before any of these people lived on that block. Everyone seems to have forgotten the punk metal club Rock Hotel. I'm sure all the people who went to see Hedwig there were monks who took a vow of silence. The place was basically a crackhouse when it was Inner Circle. And do we really think that all the prostitutes that operated out of the hotel as recently as 3 years ago (I assume they have all moved on over to the Liberty Inn by now) jive with the "family neighborhood" concept they are trying to convince us all of.