There’s been a lot of commotion of late about some noisy goings-on over in the West Village at the relatively-newly-christened Jane Hotel, a high-volume hotspot at 113 Jane Street that seems to have taken the baton from the equally irritating (and now mercifully shuttered) Beatrice Inn on West 12th Street. Over on Jane Street, the locals are up in arms about the noise and influx of clubby douchecakes who now flock to their street to partake in stentorian shenanigans in the Jane Hotel Ballroom. They even started a blog about it . As someone who lives on a noisy street just across town in the veritable crotch of NYU, I can heartily sympathize with the Jane Street residents, but I can’t entirely commit. Years prior to this hotel becoming a playground for glitzy partygoers, that very same ballroom served as the original locale of Chris Williamson’s Rock Hotel (see flyer above), which specialized in its own brand of high-volume fun. But, of course, in those days, that area of the West Village was less of a hotbed of residential affluence and more of a comparatively desolate no-man’s land. After that, if memory serves, the space acted as the playhouse for the off-off-B’way transsexual musical phenom, “Hedwig & the Angry Inch.” So, it’s not like this street has every really been whisper quiet, right?
Still, I think we can all agree that punks and transvestite-musical fans aren’t nearly as annoying as the Olsen Twins.
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