Voodoo sports bar--anyone else calling in noise complaints?

Hi--
Does anybody else on this board live near Voodoo Sports Bar (it's at 138 5th Ave.). This place is out of control-patrons outside screaming and blasting their car radios from midnight until 4 am practically every weekend. I've lived in the city for almost a decade, so i've got no problem with a little street noise, but this is intolerable. I've been calling 311 w/ noise complaints regularly for the past year or so, but there's been no improvement. Now that it's getting warm again it's getting worse. Anyone else out there suffering along with me? Any advice on how to deal with this? Thanks.

Uh, for the record, I have never been anywhere near this bar.

Don't live near there but if I did I'd be complaining too! Contact your Assembly person or City Council person -- go to their offices with documentation of your complaints. They should be able to help you. Also contact your neighbors and see if they'll join you.

If you see or suspect drug activity, call the police anonymously about that. It might bring results faster than a noise complaint.

I live 2 blocks away and always wonder who goes to this place. It looks so sterile.

Christina wrote: I live 2 blocks away and always wonder who goes to this place. It looks so sterile.

I live a few blocks away and I've wondered ever since it opened what it was doing in this neighborhood. It doesn't fit. It should be around Penn Station or Port Authority or something.

i have the same complaint about 200 fifth.

There are actually enough people in there to make noise? I've never seen more than two people in VooDoo at one time.

Mookie Wilson wrote: i have the same complaint about 200 fifth.

What? I llike 200 5th! I mean I understand that some people don't like sports bars, or bars where people watch sports, but as someone who has a teeny tiny tv, I love going out to watch a Mets game on a big screen.

200 5th is horrid.

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: 200 5th is horrid.

Agreed, although the food isn't bad for bar food.

Well I like it and you can only prove me wrong by taking me somewhere else - so where are you taking me, Beave?

It's pretty empty during the week, but gets very packed on the weekends after midnight--people spill out onto the sidewalk, and there'll often be cars parked out front blasting music. This place thinks it's a club thursday-saturday.
Anyways, thanks for the tips. So far the 311 response has been disappointing...

Mookie Wilson wrote: i have the same complaint about 200 fifth.

i have no problem with the bar itself -- just the disrespectful patrons who spill out onto the side streets every weekend night and keep my family awake with their hollering.

Maybe you could ask the drunk guy with the W.C. Fields nose who sits outside VooDoo every day to have them keep the noise down.

Subject: Re: Voodoo sports bar--anyone else calling in noise complain

raquelissima wrote: Hi--
Does anybody else on this board live near Voodoo Sports Bar (it's at 138 5th Ave.). This place is out of control-patrons outside screaming and blasting their car radios from midnight until 4 am practically every weekend. I've lived in the city for almost a decade, so i've got no problem with a little street noise, but this is intolerable. I've been calling 311 w/ noise complaints regularly for the past year or so, but there's been no improvement. Now that it's getting warm again it's getting worse. Anyone else out there suffering along with me? Any advice on how to deal with this? Thanks.

If you don't like the noise, don't live near a bar.

If you go to a bar don't be a boar!

or a bore or a boor.

being a boer is optional.

Seriously though I was reacting to Joseph11's comment "If you don't like the noise, don't live near a bar." Maybe people were living there before the bar and either way it still doesn't give patrons of bars the right to be inconsiderate of others living nearby.

seriously, i agree with you.

I used to live by the Carriage House and complaints did no good (I even would call the bar first to ask them to keep it down - they would blast music with the doors open). Finally called my assemblyman....that was the only thing that worked.

Now would be a good time to tally up those complaints for 311. Just walked by and there is a box of Hennesy and Vodka bottles spilling out on the sidewalk in front. If noise complaints won't get their attention, maybe littering will?

Subject: Re: Voodoo sports bar--anyone else calling in noise complain

joseph11 wrote: [quote=raquelissima]Hi--
Does anybody else on this board live near Voodoo Sports Bar (it's at 138 5th Ave.). This place is out of control-patrons outside screaming and blasting their car radios from midnight until 4 am practically every weekend. I've lived in the city for almost a decade, so i've got no problem with a little street noise, but this is intolerable. I've been calling 311 w/ noise complaints regularly for the past year or so, but there's been no improvement. Now that it's getting warm again it's getting worse. Anyone else out there suffering along with me? Any advice on how to deal with this? Thanks.

If you don't like the noise, don't live near a bar.

This comment makes no sense.

Subject: Re: Voodoo sports bar--anyone else calling in noise complain

joseph11 wrote: [quote=raquelissima]Hi--
Does anybody else on this board live near Voodoo Sports Bar (it's at 138 5th Ave.). This place is out of control-patrons outside screaming and blasting their car radios from midnight until 4 am practically every weekend. I've lived in the city for almost a decade, so i've got no problem with a little street noise, but this is intolerable. I've been calling 311 w/ noise complaints regularly for the past year or so, but there's been no improvement. Now that it's getting warm again it's getting worse. Anyone else out there suffering along with me? Any advice on how to deal with this? Thanks.

If you don't like the noise, don't live near a bar.

I've lived there for years before the bar opened. Also, not all bars are bad neighbors. Southpaw, for example, is also on the block, and they somehow manage to keep their customers from spilling out onto the sidewalk and acting like complete screaming lunatics at 2 in the morning every single weekend.

So, IMO, people don't want people smoking inside the bar but people don't want them smoking outside the bar either.

So just make cigarettes illegal and that will solve the problem.