Noisy Night On Vanderbilt

Was anyone else bothered by the loud partying taking place at Plan B last night? It was hard to tell if the noise was coming from the club itself, or merely from the many people hanging around outside. As late as 3:30AM there were a couple of cars pulled up outside playing loud music and occupied by loud talkers. I have to say that the appearance of this club on Vanderbilt is really a drag. I wish that it fit in more with the character of the rest of the street. I realize that Vanderbilt is a commercial street, but it is *mixed* use, not purely commercial, a fact that the patrons (and owners, I guess) of Plan B seem to be ignoring.

Does anyone else feel similarly?

That's too bad...the place has only been open for like 10-11 days.

I like having an option of a place to watch games on TV (something our nabe was pretty much lacking), and judging by a bunch of people in there Sunday afternoon others are digging it, too....

Wait, there's a bar named after the morning-after pill? Is it a good place for easy hookups? I would think that they don't put condom machines in the bathroom. Do they serve brunch?

The owners of Plan B were on this board soliciting input when they were starting out. Hopefully, they check this site occasionally now that they're open.

You can probably PM them through this site, you can contact the community board, and you can register a complaint with the state liquor board. I don't know if they'll take immediate action, but the complaints will be part of the file when Plan B needs to reapply for its liquor license.

http://www.trans.abc.state.ny.us/JSP/complaintreg/ComplaintRegistryPage.jsp

Soliciting input for a name? And they went with Plan B? Have they been on Mars, in a cave, with their eyes shut and their fingers in their ears? Plan B? Really?

Ezn wrote: Soliciting input for a name? And they went with Plan B? Have they been on Mars, in a cave, with their eyes shut and their fingers in their ears? Plan B? Really?

Yeah, but it's "ironic".

Ezn wrote: Wait, there's a bar named after the morning-after pill? Is it a good place for easy hookups? I would think that they don't put condom machines in the bathroom. Do they serve brunch?

..."Plan B" actually had a life as a fairly regular turn of phrase before the existance of the morning-after-pill. In fact, the pill was named after that expression.

Not that there wasn't a bit of a lapse in judgement, but still.

queencallipygos wrote: [quote=Ezn]Wait, there's a bar named after the morning-after pill? Is it a good place for easy hookups? I would think that they don't put condom machines in the bathroom. Do they serve brunch?

..."Plan B" actually had a life as a fairly regular turn of phrase before the existance of the morning-after-pill. In fact, the pill was named after that expression.

Not that there wasn't a bit of a lapse in judgement, but still.

Yeah, Plan B has always meant "not your first choice". Still not a great name for a bar. "Hey, if we can't go somewhere good, let's go to plan B!"

madman wrote: Yeah, Plan B has always meant "not your first choice". Still not a great name for a bar. "Hey, if we can't go somewhere good, let's go to plan B!"

....Huh. Makes the name sound even more dumb.

madman wrote: [quote=queencallipygos][quote=Ezn]Wait, there's a bar named after the morning-after pill? Is it a good place for easy hookups? I would think that they don't put condom machines in the bathroom. Do they serve brunch?

..."Plan B" actually had a life as a fairly regular turn of phrase before the existance of the morning-after-pill. In fact, the pill was named after that expression.

Not that there wasn't a bit of a lapse in judgement, but still.

Yeah, Plan B has always meant "not your first choice". Still not a great name for a bar. "Hey, if we can't go somewhere good, let's go to plan B!"

That's interesting because my husband read it as "if the wife/husband/SO won't let you watch the game, time to go to Plan B"

seems pretty straight forward

i as a male read it is the plan b of .. my first pick of a bar is packed and I want to watch the game anyways

my gf read it as.. hey isn't that a name of a morning after pill


nuff said

I met the owner at soda about a year ago, it was not a great experience overall (he was being pretty loud and drunk about opening another bar...IN the neighborhood bar), but I think I remember giving him a little shit for the name, and he said "B, B as in BROOKLYN"

Subject: Re: Noisy Night On Vanderbilt

elysium wrote: Was anyone else bothered by the loud partying taking place at Plan B last night? It was hard to tell if the noise was coming from the club itself, or merely from the many people hanging around outside. As late as 3:30AM there were a couple of cars pulled up outside playing loud music and occupied by loud talkers. I have to say that the appearance of this club on Vanderbilt is really a drag. I wish that it fit in more with the character of the rest of the street. I realize that Vanderbilt is a commercial street, but it is *mixed* use, not purely commercial, a fact that the patrons (and owners, I guess) of Plan B seem to be ignoring.

Does anyone else feel similarly?

Is this a noise or rancid exterior complaint?

Brooklyn is a noisy place. Turn on a fan to drown out the sound. Why should everyone else stop having fun just because your a grouch. Remember this is New York City not suburbs.

i like it. greg and leo are good people.

"Brooklyn is a noisy place. Turn on a fan to drown out the sound. Why should everyone else stop having fun just because your a grouch. Remember this is New York City not suburbs."

Grouchy? Maybe, but you might also be if you had to get up at 7 to go to work and were kept up until 3:30 the night before. I've lived on my block of Vanderbilt for a while now, so I'm used to and accept a certain amount of street noise, but this is something I haven't had to deal with before, especially on a weekday night.

I also think that cities aren't only places where people party, but also places where people sleep, work, etc. Living in a city requires negotiation and respect on everyone's part. This is actually one of the reasons I prefer cities to suburbs. In suburbs people can live in cocoons since the space between people allows them to behave without considering the effect of their actions on others. For the negotiation to work, all sides have to cooperate. I'm willing to cede Friday and Saturday nights until a reasonable late hour (or early morning hour) for partying and revelry, but it seems to me that bars and partiers should respect that on weekday nights their neighbors have to be able to sleep in relative peace.

seems to me that the idea that cities are primarily for parties and noise is an inherently suburban one.

joseph11 wrote: Brooklyn is a noisy place. Turn on a fan to drown out the sound. Why should everyone else stop having fun just because your a grouch. Remember this is New York City not suburbs.

(gets out notepad) What's your address? Because I've been thinking of opening a Roman Gladiator bar and I've been looking for a place where the neighbors won't be bothered by the sound of live hog chariot races and swordfights until 5 am. Oh, we'll also need some outside access, so if you could tell us whether your window has street or garden access? Because if we could route it by someone who doesn't mind noise, that'd be great, especially when we fire the cannon.

....You wouldn't be a grouch about the cannon, right? Even if it cracked your window just a smidge? Cool.

joseph11 wrote: Brooklyn is a noisy place. Turn on a fan to drown out the sound. Why should everyone else stop having fun just because your a grouch. Remember this is New York City not suburbs.

You just signed your own Brooklynian death warrant.

Don't you know, in new Brooklyn the community assimilates to US. :roll:

Obamanut wrote: [quote=joseph11]Brooklyn is a noisy place. Turn on a fan to drown out the sound. Why should everyone else stop having fun just because your a grouch. Remember this is New York City not suburbs.

You just signed your own Brooklynian death warrant.

Don't you know, in new Brooklyn the community assimilates to US. :roll:

since when is a week-old bar "the community"? :roll:

Monday night was cinco de mayo. Probably why it was loud. I heard groups of people singing in the street that night no where near a bar.

Obamanut wrote: [quote=joseph11]Brooklyn is a noisy place. Turn on a fan to drown out the sound. Why should everyone else stop having fun just because your a grouch. Remember this is New York City not suburbs.

You just signed your own Brooklynian death warrant.

Don't you know, in new Brooklyn the community assimilates to US. :roll:

Dude, you can't sign a warrant without Brooklynain Community Board approval.

Grouchy? Maybe, but you might also be if you had to get up at 7 to go to work and were kept up until 3:30 the night before. I've lived on my block of Vanderbilt for a while now, so I'm used to and accept a certain amount of street noise, but this is something I haven't had to deal with before, especially on a weekday night.

This has been my life since Barrette has opened. When did Tuesday night become the big party night? I love bars, I spend more than my fair share of time in 'em, but, honestly, people on the street talking loudly at 3.30 AM has nothing to do with "this is New York", it has nothing to do with "having a good time"; it has only to do with a lack of good sense and consideration for other people.

When did Tuesday night become the big party night?

pretty recently.

I love how DH continues to live up to its reputation here where a legitimate complaint about late-night noise devolved into literal "name calling" with a lengthy discussion about a bar's name...

As someone who I'm sure is way louder than I think I am when I'm out any weekday and have had too much to drink, I totally feel for people who live directly around bars.

Subject: Way too late!

3:30 am is too late for any kind of bar noise in a mixed-use neighborhood (i.e. a neighborhood that includes residences and businesses). Period. That kind of activity should be reserved for Midtown.

Oy! I don't envy you and your neighbors. It's exactly this kind of occurrence that makes people very, very adamant that nothing like this would ever open near their homes.

If you're living on Vanderbilt, it's unrealistic to expect no noise whatsoever, but I do think that it's more than reasonable to expect that at 3:30am. Especially 3:30 am on a Wednesday morning.

sterling2000 wrote: I love how DH continues to live up to its reputation here where a legitimate complaint about late-night noise devolved into literal "name calling" with a lengthy discussion about a bar's name...

mos def. i would have chosen "ru-486" over "plan b."

"r u 486? me 2."

sweet tea wrote: "r u 486? me 2."

noice. ou812.

would be sad to be 86'ed from there.

Subject: Plan B on Vanderbilt / Noise

I don't know whether the original poster's question was ever fully followed up on, but this is just to say that I am completely fed up with Plan B's attitude toward its neighbors. I wrote to the bar over the summer to complain about the late-night noise but didn't receive a reply, and I called only to be told that I basically had no choice but to put up with the noise. Very neighborly, I must say. The next step would seem to be to lodge a complaint with the New York State Liquor Authority. If anyone else is fed up with Plan B and wants to do something about it, I'd be glad to hear from them.