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		<title>Gansevoort Hotel Turns It Down A Notch As City Investigates Pool Parties</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:54:57 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Drew Grant</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_253419" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/07/gansevoort-hotel-turns-it-down-a-notch/image001-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-253419"><img class=" wp-image-253419" title="image001" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/image001.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">An invitation to disaster</p></div></p>
<p>After receiving several complaints about the throngs of bikini-clad women grinding up on the rooftop pool of the Gansevoort Hotel, the management has taken steps to make their Sunday afternoon club scene a little less intense.<br />
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<p>Last Tuesday, the <em>New York Post</em> <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/boiling_mad_over_wet_wild_pool_dwMlZH56GIampGjR0TpFPN">reported that neighbors of the Gansevoort</a> had been increasingly bothered by the window-shaking music blasting from the hotel's roof-deck on Sundays, where flocks of young people would cram the outdoor area and wiggle to window-shaking music. The weekly parties were allegedly 250 people over capacity. One day after the story broke, the city <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/city_1BKVoA61C4E5fi11ku3SkK">promised to look into the matter</a>., since nobody hates women in bikinis dancing around as much as the residents of <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that town from <em>Footloose</em></span> the Meatpacking District.</p>
<p>Since investigating poolside shenanigans is the number one priority of city officials, the problem was fixed by this weekend, when a private <em>Maxim </em>party on the roof had only held 50 people (the maximum capacity) <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/smaller_bash_splash_iFGdGycG3NmeCBPHWhJKWM?utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=Manhattan">quietly partying near the pool</a>.</p>
<p>That still hasn't solved the problem, in the eyes of some neighbors.</p>
<blockquote><p>"It seems like less people today,"(26-year-old) Andrew Davis said. "But it's not 95 degrees, and it's not great pool weather. I would need more weeks of warmer weather to see if there's a change."</p></blockquote>
<p>We wouldn't worry if we were Mr. Davis, since those nubile bodies have obviously migrated East for the summer and <a href="http://observer.com/2012/07/williamsburg-new-york-times-directions-end-it-all-07192012/">are currently living it up at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn</a> with Skrillex and some DJ who looks like Jesus.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_253419" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/07/gansevoort-hotel-turns-it-down-a-notch/image001-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-253419"><img class=" wp-image-253419" title="image001" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/image001.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">An invitation to disaster</p></div></p>
<p>After receiving several complaints about the throngs of bikini-clad women grinding up on the rooftop pool of the Gansevoort Hotel, the management has taken steps to make their Sunday afternoon club scene a little less intense.<br />
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<p>Last Tuesday, the <em>New York Post</em> <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/boiling_mad_over_wet_wild_pool_dwMlZH56GIampGjR0TpFPN">reported that neighbors of the Gansevoort</a> had been increasingly bothered by the window-shaking music blasting from the hotel's roof-deck on Sundays, where flocks of young people would cram the outdoor area and wiggle to window-shaking music. The weekly parties were allegedly 250 people over capacity. One day after the story broke, the city <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/city_1BKVoA61C4E5fi11ku3SkK">promised to look into the matter</a>., since nobody hates women in bikinis dancing around as much as the residents of <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">that town from <em>Footloose</em></span> the Meatpacking District.</p>
<p>Since investigating poolside shenanigans is the number one priority of city officials, the problem was fixed by this weekend, when a private <em>Maxim </em>party on the roof had only held 50 people (the maximum capacity) <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/smaller_bash_splash_iFGdGycG3NmeCBPHWhJKWM?utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=Manhattan">quietly partying near the pool</a>.</p>
<p>That still hasn't solved the problem, in the eyes of some neighbors.</p>
<blockquote><p>"It seems like less people today,"(26-year-old) Andrew Davis said. "But it's not 95 degrees, and it's not great pool weather. I would need more weeks of warmer weather to see if there's a change."</p></blockquote>
<p>We wouldn't worry if we were Mr. Davis, since those nubile bodies have obviously migrated East for the summer and <a href="http://observer.com/2012/07/williamsburg-new-york-times-directions-end-it-all-07192012/">are currently living it up at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn</a> with Skrillex and some DJ who looks like Jesus.</p>
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