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3 LES Hotels On City's Top 10 For 311 Noise Complaints: Study
Hotel on Rivington, SIXTY LES, and PUBLIC Hotel made the city's top 10 noisiest hotels.
LOWER EAST SIDE — Noisy party-goers are the ire of residents trying to get their beauty rest citywide, but a new study found that on the Lower East Side in particular, three hotels made the city's top 1o list for 311 noise complaints.
Hotel on Rivington at 107 Rivington St., SIXTY LES at 190 Allen St., and PUBLIC Hotel at 215 Chrystie St. were ranked fourth through sixth on the city's hotels with the most 311 noise-related complaints, a study from real estate data website Localize.city found.
Two other Lower East Side hotels, Hotel Indigo at 171 Ludlow St. and Ludlow Hotel at 180 Ludlow St., also made the top 30 for noise complaints.
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"By showing the full story of every address, including its noise profile, we're helping New Yorkers make better, more informed decisions about where to live or even where to say when they come to visit," Localize.city president Steve Kalifowitz said in a statement. "The bottom line is: no one should be surprised."
Hotel on Rivington racked up 27 total complaints total during Localize.city's study period, July 2017 to July 2018. A noise complaint was filed 19 days over that period — another metric Localize.city used to account for whether one day had a particularly high number of noise complaints.
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SIXTY LES and PUBLIC Hotel both had 26 complaints total and 18 days of complaints during the year-long study period.
To their credit, the number of complaints appears to have considerably dropped at Rivington's hotel restaurants since Jia and Cafe Medi opened. At the time, the two spots racked up over 180 noise complaints via 311 calls, Bowery Boogie reported in 2017.
At SIXTY LES, neighbors reportedly saw people having sex through the windows when the hotel first opened in 2017, DNAInfo reported at the time.
Arlo SoHo in the SoHo neighborhood came in tenth with 22 total complaints over 15 days, according to the study.
Other neighborhoods for noisy hotels included Midtown, Williamsburg, Downtown Brooklyn, the Upper West Side.
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