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JANE HOTEL – A VICTIM OF BEING TOO COOL?

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persistent lobbying led to the creation to such a force.  The use of the cabaret law insured the closing of many-many venues whose clients wanted to jiggle.  Every neighborhood, we have opened many neighborhoods, including flatiron districts and a big part of meat packing with Lotus. Remember these were virtual no go areas at night before nightlife invested.  Operators should be good neighbors but the consistent bashing of, to date, an un organized nightlife community, will kill jobs, kill taxes and has already, in my opinion, killed New York nightlife.  What’s left are cookie cutter clubs, poorly built, badly operated and not really creative. This is what the operators learned in business school. Sorry kid, just calling it the way it is… it’s just too tough to be THAT creative anymore.”

So what about a creative Jane Ballroom, which the city has inspected 6 times since July 10th?  Four of which have been in the month of September alone..!!!  Nightlife’s peerage rising stars, Carlos Quirarte & Matt Kleigman, partners of Jane Ballroom told us;

“It’s frustrating that there are so many anonymous 311 calls particularly on nights when we are not crowded, meaning no lines vs. long lines.  We continue to try to engage with the neighbors to improve the situation for everyone.  We have made many positive changes with respect to the noise, street area and the crowd.  But no one wants to really write about those things.” We are like victims of our own success.  We got lucky considering where the economy is, the Jane Ballroom has a good following.”

I guess it makes sense to pester a successful, taxable income producing entity that provides jobs during a recession.  In a city that has a 10.4% unemployment rate and climbing, I assume it’s a good thing for neighbors to try and put people’s livelihoods and wages in jeopardy.  If it’s really about noise, why don’t more people complain about the 3am and 5am trash trucks that slam garbage around waking everyone up in certain buildings?  Let’s start writing tickets more often to taxi drivers and people from New Jersey that keep their hand on the car horn during a traffic delay.  Wait, how about those drivers of fire trucks and ambulances that screech their sirens down the street while sipping on a soft drink….emergency???  The only emergency I see is a re-evaluation of the system currently in place for making complaints against businesses, started by creative people that earn an honest income for their own survival.  I guess we should all start hanging out in strip clubs and have sex with the dancers in the back room instead.  Oh wait…, that doesn’t really go on back there does it????

The jet set rumored to still be doing more blow despite the size of the bathroom stall.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. This is the sad state of nightlife in New York City. A few reckless operators really ruined everyone’s fun and these “hipsters” can’t figure out what went wrong. Then when someone like Eric and Sean open a venue, who are top notch operators, they have the residual effect of TheBeatriceInn boys who had no regard for building out a space, pulling permits, complying with code or their neighbors. One of the neighbors said “If I had a gun” at the mere mention of Abramcyk’s name. The Jane troubles can be easily be resolved because it only ever took money to build out these spaces and comply with code. But these low life, underfunded operators like Abramcyk & company have eroded the neighbors and community faith because they’ve been lied to and even harmed their neighbors. It’s like consumer confidence, once it’s lost, it can never be regained. I personally don’t see how it could be hip to put the cool venues out of business based on ill conceived, under financed smelly basements or why they think this is “hip”. It seems like a few bad operators have. Really ruined it for everyone.

  2. Yea, heard a friend of hers was trapped in the bathroom splashing water on his face.There was so much smoke he couldn’t find the door. The woman’s coat they started on fire was burnt to shreds. They promised to pay for her in front of the firemen. But she was left knocking on everyone’s door in tears because they just stone walled her instead. They made up this “Legal Bar Brawl” story a week after the fire. It was meant to prevent the city from shutting them down with pending litigation.

    She never did anything to them. The DOB complaints and 311 complaints were at Beatrice Inn in the West Village not Smith and Mills. Their troubles were with the lady above Beatrice Inn. This lawyer must have gotten his the venues confused because he handle these troubles at Beatrice Inn himself.

    Maybe the lawyer is just too old to practice law anymore. But he has since gone on to threaten the SLA at Marquee over an undercover drug sting and a New York Times reporter at The Jane Hotel over licensing issues. This is the sad state of nightlife in New York City. The question becomes why any of these guys needed a dirty lawyer.

  3. Didn’t you leave out Smith and Mills in a single garage at 71 N Moore at Beatrice Inn’s other location in Tribeca? Isn’t that why they made up that “Legal Bar Brawl” story on Carlos Almada and Victoria. They hardly seem like someone’s aunt and uncle upstairs. They must have left out the part where Smith and Mills had a fire and she wrote the Mayor personally because his daughter is their neighbor after Smith and Mills nearly burnt the buildings down and the surrounding buildings along with it and didn’t call the Fire Department for over an hour. The people inside could have been killed. The doors to Smith and Mills open in instead of out. The Greenwich Street Hotel cracked all their windows when they broke ground. She literally had no way out. BD Hotels’s lawyers made up that incredible story on them to put them in breach of lease because they were bidding on their building for a nightclub. But in all of this time no one connected the dots. There was no brawl. It was a construction accident. They damaged 3 landmark buildings on N Moore when they hit the water line by going down 3 floors instead of one. Guess that’s why the story belongs in the movies. It was pure cinema. Or maybe you just call it landlord fraud and racketeering. Century Realty owns those buildings. Abramcyk is the owners partner’s son. It’s a sad day for nightlife in the city when nightclubs make up stories on their neighbors to prevent the city from stepping in with pending litigation. Particularly since Eric and Sean were Carlos’s partners at MK. These Bd Hotel boys are desperately over the line. What is astounding is they laid this penthouse story at Bob’s door step.This is all BD Hotels.

  4. Is this Olivier’s photo? Looks very much like one of his, but this one looks like it’s been Photoshopped… photo credits?

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