This Lower East Side Bar Has The City's Most Noise Complaints

LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — The city that never sleeps is sleepless for all the wrong reasons near Lower East Side bar Louie and Chan, according to Localize.city's new report on New York's noisiest bars and clubs.

Broome Street cocktail restaurant Louie and Chan has wracked up nearly 300 noise complaints from June 2017 to June 2018 with neighbors complaining on 49 separate days about the raucous watering hole, according to the website's report.

Localize.city, which compiles research to provides insights about New York, ranked the roaring establishments based on the number of days in a year-long stretch that complaints were logged to 311. Although Louie and Chan ranked 12 on the top 20 noisiest bars and clubs list, it far surpassed the other eateries with 293 noise complaints. The next closest number was at a Park Slope bar with 156 complaints.

It's no wonder to residents who can't catch a wink when the bar's nightlight is in full swing.

"On some Saturday nights that place buzzes like a bee hive," said Susan Wang, 48, who lives two doors down from the bar. "It just gets packed with so many people and then they spill out onto the street and it gets much worse."

Even some Yelp reviewers noted the noise level with one calling it "excessively loud at times" and another noting how densely packed the bar sometimes becomes.

"The music is loud and the space gets packed and at times [it] can be a little hard to see, but it's good for when you want to be away from all of the movement of the city," wrote Yelp reviewer Rucha D.

Louie and Chan did not respond to a request for comment.

As a whole, the Lower East Side is regularly among the city's loudest neighborhoods. Noise complaints for New York at large have steadily risen over the years shooting up from 200,000 to 384,000 between 2010 and 2015, according to a recent state comptroller's report.

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