noisy neighbors
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as a ll i doubt i could do anything else besides telling them not renewal the lease next year. don't have that many options to kick folks out in nyc. its a tenant friendly city.
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You could also call council member David Yassky's office--they might be able to advise you on options and local noise ordinances--the people who work there are really helpful. David Yassky (718) 875-5200.
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for some reason, the really really old people that live upstairs BLAST their music. and we have thick walls too, but the BASS BASS BASS thumps.
I just did the Bang the Broomstick on the Ceiling trick and they turned it down a bit.
When i lived in east williamsburg, this 30something home-office guy lived next door. he was a writer and was always home, and always loud. Anyway, he had a KILLER entertainment system in his bedroom, which was a thin wall away from mine. At night, i guess when he was sleeping, he would watch WAR EPICs. all night from like 12am-2am I would just hear shooting and bombs and shouting.. and no matter how much I banged on the wall or his door, he never answered or turned it down.
worst ever. we called the police on him once and he lied to them and told the cops that HE called the police on US! -
Anotherdayinbkln wrote: When i lived in east williamsburg, this 30something home-office guy lived next door. he was a writer and was always home, and always loud. Anyway, he had a KILLER entertainment system in his bedroom, which was a thin wall away from mine. At night, i guess when he was sleeping, he would watch WAR EPICs. all night from like 12am-2am I would just hear shooting and bombs and shouting.. and no matter how much I banged on the wall or his door, he never answered or turned it down.
that guy sounds like a real winner. was he single?
worst ever. we called the police on him once and he lied to them and told the cops that HE called the police on US! -
call 311
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alafairnadia wrote: [quote=Anotherdayinbkln]When i lived in east williamsburg, this 30something home-office guy lived next door. he was a writer and was always home, and always loud. Anyway, he had a KILLER entertainment system in his bedroom, which was a thin wall away from mine. At night, i guess when he was sleeping, he would watch WAR EPICs. all night from like 12am-2am I would just hear shooting and bombs and shouting.. and no matter how much I banged on the wall or his door, he never answered or turned it down.
that guy sounds like a real winner. was he single?
worst ever. we called the police on him once and he lied to them and told the cops that HE called the police on US!
so single he had 3 cats. -
Anotherdayinbkln wrote: [quote=alafairnadia][quote=Anotherdayinbkln]When i lived in east williamsburg, this 30something home-office guy lived next door. he was a writer and was always home, and always loud. Anyway, he had a KILLER entertainment system in his bedroom, which was a thin wall away from mine. At night, i guess when he was sleeping, he would watch WAR EPICs. all night from like 12am-2am I would just hear shooting and bombs and shouting.. and no matter how much I banged on the wall or his door, he never answered or turned it down.
that guy sounds like a real winner. was he single?
worst ever. we called the police on him once and he lied to them and told the cops that HE called the police on US!
so single he had 3 cats.
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should of catnap his cats.
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his cats had leukemia. this guy was pretty much all around sad. i found out what happens to art school hipsters after they live in Williamsburg for 10 years.
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damn that be sad. i wonder if his hair cuts itself.
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edited to protect the guilty--and in case I need to take further action.
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It's too bad you live right next door...another favorite is to buy about 300 crickets at a pet store and release them in the apartment - a great prank or just an appropriate way to teach someone a little something about annoying noises...
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I was so frustrated reading the posts about the noisy neighbors. We moved out of our old place about a month ago b/c we had downstairs neighbors who had no threshhold for anything. We'd get letters (more like theses) on our door about hearing our footsteps in the morning as we walked across our floor getting ready for work. (Sorry that I have a job that often requires me to get up at 5 am and work 14 hours/day). They asked us to remove our shoes at the door and to put them on at the door. They complained about a clock radio that was set to play a CD for the alarm. They demanded no noise be made until after 9 am b/c that is when they slept best (needed their beauty rest, I suppose). They would hold a tape recorder to the ceiling to give to the landlord (who rolled his eyes but succumbed to the crotchety couple in the end and bought more carpeting b/c he didn't want to deal with their incessant phonecalls). They further complained about having to buy earplugs and headphones to sleep during the morning hours. They even threatened to call the police. I have no idea for what reason. I think it was just to be jerks. They nearly suffocated all of us with the fumes from their 3 months of remodeling, not to mention the endless hammering and sawing. Their dogs were also spastic and barked for hours when left alone. But that was OK in their eyes, I guess. No one else in the building EVER had issues with us, nor did we with them. We liked our neighbors very much, except these two persnickety old farts, who moved back after living in the woods for years. So I guess when you're old it's somehow OK to be a jerk and mean spirited. The extra carpeting didn't satisfy them. They whined about anything and everything and everyone in the buidling couldn't stand them but tolerated them b/c they were owners in the building. In fact, I see my old neighbors around the neighborhood and we still laugh about it. We were miserable living there and pressured to leave. I feel bad for errikka b/c no one wants that kind of living situation. I hated coming home. And they finally got rid of us. We are totally normal, don't even own a stereo, travel, and work alot. I was incensed at the pressure some people can apply to get what they want. I hope the new tenants after us are tap dancers or Dutch or have triplet toddlers! Anyway, the nerve of some people makes me really angry. Don't feel bad for one second about standing up to people. They don't give a damn about you, why should you care. Thanks for letting me vent.
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They asked us to remove our shoes at the door and to put them on at the door.
All right, most of the stuff you've listed is B.S. on their part, but I sympathize with the shoes thing, assuming you didn't have carpeting. When my upstairs neighbors moved in it was "KLUD, KLUD, KLUD" all the damned time. The guy would get up at 0600 and I think he would put his shoes on before his clothes...then I guess they would go out for dinner, come back after midnight and do laps around the apartment (shoes on, natch - because who doesn't love walking around their apartment in shoes?) for a good 15 or 20 minutes before retiring. I eventually straightened them out - happily, their upstairs neighbor was a friend of mine, but their early reaction to my complaints was along the lines of, "Duhhhh...wut...noize carries? O don't worry, we're sure it's not that bad, lol."
I also learned what "waiting for the other shoe to drop" means in the most literal sense...who the hell keeps their shoes next to their bed these days? -
I think my husband lived above those people. He was in law school and hardly ever home but they acted like he was destroying their lives by walking in the apartment (and not laps, but like walking from the bedroom to the bathroom). The poor guy was out of the apartment all day and came home at 10:00 or later every night and their position was that that was after their bedtime and he shouldn't be walking around at all. One time we were watching TV at around 11:00 on a Saturday night, not loud at all, and they came storming up in a tizzy because the noise of the TV was keeping them awake.
They were so awful. He was basically never there, never once had a party while he lived there, and never played loud music, but they complained constantly. Some people are just not suited for apartment living. :roll: -
GiGi wrote: I was so frustrated reading the posts about the noisy neighbors. We moved out of our old place about a month ago b/c we had downstairs neighbors who had no threshhold for anything. We'd get letters (more like theses) on our door about hearing our footsteps in the morning as we walked across our floor getting ready for work. (Sorry that I have a job that often requires me to get up at 5 am and work 14 hours/day). They asked us to remove our shoes at the door and to put them on at the door. They complained about a clock radio that was set to play a CD for the alarm. They demanded no noise be made until after 9 am b/c that is when they slept best (needed their beauty rest, I suppose). They would hold a tape recorder to the ceiling to give to the landlord (who rolled his eyes but succumbed to the crotchety couple in the end and bought more carpeting b/c he didn't want to deal with their incessant phonecalls). They further complained about having to buy earplugs and headphones to sleep during the morning hours. They even threatened to call the police. I have no idea for what reason. I think it was just to be jerks. They nearly suffocated all of us with the fumes from their 3 months of remodeling, not to mention the endless hammering and sawing. Their dogs were also spastic and barked for hours when left alone. But that was OK in their eyes, I guess. No one else in the building EVER had issues with us, nor did we with them. We liked our neighbors very much, except these two persnickety old farts, who moved back after living in the woods for years. So I guess when you're old it's somehow OK to be a jerk and mean spirited. The extra carpeting didn't satisfy them. They whined about anything and everything and everyone in the buidling couldn't stand them but tolerated them b/c they were owners in the building. In fact, I see my old neighbors around the neighborhood and we still laugh about it. We were miserable living there and pressured to leave. I feel bad for errikka b/c no one wants that kind of living situation. I hated coming home. And they finally got rid of us. We are totally normal, don't even own a stereo, travel, and work alot. I was incensed at the pressure some people can apply to get what they want. I hope the new tenants after us are tap dancers or Dutch or have triplet toddlers! Anyway, the nerve of some people makes me really angry. Don't feel bad for one second about standing up to people. They don't give a damn about you, why should you care. Thanks for letting me vent.
don't get my started on old people like my grandpa lol. they got rid of so many tenents cause he thought they were so loud. and they're alot of old folks like him out there. -
See, this is why I don't like to live in the ultra-quiet neighborhoods. I lived in a two story building in Bay Ridge for a couple months. The woman downstairs was just waiting for us to make noise so she could complain. When I first put my bed in, I put the mattress on the cheap metal frame backwards by accident. I didn't even realize until I sat down on the edge of the bed and the mattresses tilted and thumped ONCE. And they made about as much noise as when you tuck in a sheet and drop the top mattress back down.
But this crazy woman comes CHARGING up the stairs immediately and starts pounding on the door. It kinda freaked me out and I didn't answer the door. You'd think she'd give it up, but she actually confronted me in the street the next day and told me not to make so much noise!! I told her that I had put the mattress on backwards by accident, but she went on about we need sleep, blah, blah--"don't do it again"! Yeah, lady I enjoy almost falling off my bed. :roll: Some people just have so little going on that they are just looking for confrontation. -
GiGi wrote: I was so frustrated reading the posts about the noisy neighbors. We moved out of our old place about a month ago b/c we had downstairs neighbors who had no threshhold for anything. We'd get letters (more like theses) on our door about hearing our footsteps in the morning as we walked across our floor getting ready for work. (Sorry that I have a job that often requires me to get up at 5 am and work 14 hours/day). They asked us to remove our shoes at the door and to put them on at the door.
I hate to be the devil's advocate here, and it DOES sound like these people were going way overboard (especially in the addiitonal details you gave beyond the quote above), but I lived in an apartment a few years ago where there was a similar situation, at least as far as the shoes go. The apartment had wood floors, we had high ceilings that made everything amplify, and my upstairs neighbors got up much earlier than me and put on hard-soled dress shoes first thing out of the shower. He'd then run back and forth across the apartment (but mostly in his bedroom, right above mine) for a good half hour before leaving. It was *maddening.* And it went on for the entire year and some-odd months I lived there.
I was too polite/wussy to ask him not to put on his shoes until right before leaving, but that's what I do myself out of respect for my downstairs neighbor's sleep. Just sayin'. -
Rose wrote: I think my husband lived above those people. He was in law school and hardly ever home but they acted like he was destroying their lives by walking in the apartment (and not laps, but like walking from the bedroom to the bathroom). The poor guy was out of the apartment all day and came home at 10:00 or later every night and their position was that that was after their bedtime and he shouldn't be walking around at all. One time we were watching TV at around 11:00 on a Saturday night, not loud at all, and they came storming up in a tizzy because the noise of the TV was keeping them awake.
Sounds just like them! I know how exhausting and consuming school can be too. It's so uncomfortable when you know they are below you listening to your every move. And, they seem to be hypersensitive if you push back. Everything then becomes an issue. Even normal everyday things that everyone does like coming through the front door and letting it close on it's own. I got a letter about that too. Back to the wilderness, I say.
They were so awful. He was basically never there, never once had a party while he lived there, and never played loud music, but they complained constantly. Some people are just not suited for apartment living. :roll: -
don't get my started on old people like my grandpa lol. they got rid of so many tenents cause he thought they were so loud. and they're alot of old folks like him out there.
Dear armchair-warrior, I'm sure your granpappy was real nice and a little crotchetiness is OK but these people can't have any children as nasty as they are. If they were my parents, I'd run away or never visit them in the old folks home. I am not exaggerating. They were intolerable. -
apollonia666 wrote: [quote=GiGi]I was so frustrated reading the posts about the noisy neighbors. We moved out of our old place about a month ago b/c we had downstairs neighbors who had no threshhold for anything. We'd get letters (more like theses) on our door about hearing our footsteps in the morning as we walked across our floor getting ready for work. (Sorry that I have a job that often requires me to get up at 5 am and work 14 hours/day). They asked us to remove our shoes at the door and to put them on at the door.
I hate to be the devil's advocate here, and it DOES sound like these people were going way overboard (especially in the addiitonal details you gave beyond the quote above), but I lived in an apartment a few years ago where there was a similar situation, at least as far as the shoes go. The apartment had wood floors, we had high ceilings that made everything amplify, and my upstairs neighbors got up much earlier than me and put on hard-soled dress shoes first thing out of the shower. He'd then run back and forth across the apartment (but mostly in his bedroom, right above mine) for a good half hour before leaving. It was *maddening.* And it went on for the entire year and some-odd months I lived there.
I was too polite/wussy to ask him not to put on his shoes until right before leaving, but that's what I do myself out of respect for my downstairs neighbor's sleep. Just sayin'.
Yup, totally get that and I try to be more conscientious of the shoes, but I felt as though we tolerated a hell of a lot more with the humiliation and unreasonableness than they did with me wearing my shoes in the house 5 minutes in the morning and 1 minute at the end of the day when I got home from work. No joke. In fact, these people had me so stressed out that I forbid shoes in my house now for fear of getting chastised by the new neighbors - who by that way, are all professionals, have similar schedules, and lots more tolerance for apartment living. We all agreed just to be cool with each other. I appreciate that. So what do we do about all these jerks? -
Next door, they turned the amp way down. To compensate, upstairs neighbor now walks back and forth in heeled shoes....starting at ten and extending 'til one am.
TAKE OFF YOUR FUCKING HIGH HEELS! You're at home for christsakes. Are you operating a whorehouse up there? Could you put down a rug if you insist on wearing those things?
I lose in the neighbor game. -
op and others :P. rent top floor next time. you'll never have people walking over you. unless they are fixing the roof.
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erikka wrote: Next door, they turned the amp way down. To compensate, upstairs neighbor now walks back and forth in heeled shoes....starting at ten and extending 'til one am.
Erikka, you just can't win poor thing! Can you acquire some bad habit to unleash on everyone? Like opera, tap dancing, playing the ukelele? We had an 80% carpet rule at the old place that only WE had to abide by for some reason. No one else had 80% of their apt. carpeted. If you live downstairs it didn't count or some nonsense. I mean who the heck wears high heels in the house for 3 hours. I can't wait to get my shoes off when I get home. Plus, I'm such a germ phobe thinking about all the stuff on the bottom of my shoes. I totally feel for you but have nothing of value to add other than you are NOT alone in this. Maybe we should all come over for a party.
TAKE OFF YOUR FUCKING HIGH HEELS! You're at home for christsakes. Are you operating a whorehouse up there? Could you put down a rug if you insist on wearing those things?
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Subject: Noisy Neighbors
I have an apartment on 6th Street where I work during the day, and for about six months now, someone has been holding some kind of band practice, or drum practice in an apartment across the street from my place. Wondering if that might be where you live, because if so, it is HUGELY annoying, and i've considered calling the police many times. -
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Park Slopers Debate How to Best Avoid Indie Rockers Next Door
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Anotherdayinbkln wrote: congratulations, this is now on Gawker.com
Great, just great. Maybe the lovely people at gawker will help me find new digs. Or give me the Butterscotch Stallion's phone number. Either works for me, really.
Park Slopers Debate How to Best Avoid Indie Rockers Next Door
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For the record, the ratio of fucking to guitar playing is about 30:1. If there was more fucking and less guitar playing that'd be great because fucking only lasts, what...ten minutes (estimate based upon what has been overheard)? The guitar playing can go on for hours and hours. I can tell one is bad, I wouldn't be surprized if the other is as well (see ratio). And I think that if I've managed to go twelve years of smoking without making my house smell like the carpet of a frat house, it ain't fair for some hippies to do it for me. Open a window, get an ionic breeze, move to the East Village. I don't care. This is Park Slope, where fun goes to die. Just shut up already. -
Subject: Backwards Mattress?
caaahyoko wrote: See, this is why I don't like to live in the ultra-quiet neighborhoods. I lived in a two story building in Bay Ridge for a couple months. The woman downstairs was just waiting for us to make noise so she could complain. When I first put my bed in, I put the mattress on the cheap metal frame backwards by accident. I didn't even realize until I sat down on the edge of the bed and the mattresses tilted and thumped ONCE. And they made about as much noise as when you tuck in a sheet and drop the top mattress back down.
Aren't mattresses symmetrical? How to you put it on backwards?
But this crazy woman comes CHARGING up the stairs immediately and starts pounding on the door. It kinda freaked me out and I didn't answer the door. You'd think she'd give it up, but she actually confronted me in the street the next day and told me not to make so much noise!! I told her that I had put the mattress on backwards by accident, but she went on about we need sleep, blah, blah--"don't do it again"! Yeah, lady I enjoy almost falling off my bed. :roll: Some people just have so little going on that they are just looking for confrontation. -
literally every apartment i've even lived in has graced me with noisy, insane upstairs neighbors. (or, as my mother calls them, "the upstairsickas"... and opposed to the "downstairsicka", "next-dooricka" el alia..."
in my last apartment i ended up taking one of them to court--and winning, btw--because she and her family refused to stop making noise, wouldn't participate in the court-ordered mediation, and was ultimately faced with the possibility of a monumental fine. that's when the noise stopped.
and now i have the looney one upstairs. as i type this i think she's throwing human bodies around the room and letting them thud on the floor. -
Cliffs Notes version of this thread:
* Noisy neighbors are a blight on society
* Unless you're complaining about MY noise, in which case you're crazy
Is there any chance some people on this thread are unknowingly writing about each other?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to call 311 about the car alarm going off on my block.
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