March 29, 2009
Nick Cavalieri, who has lived in the apartment directly above 3 Monkeys Bar and Grill since November, is getting “more than fed up” with having to continuously tell his neighbors to be quiet, the 30-year-old said today.
“Monday through Sunday, I hear those guys partying pretty much every night,” Cavalieri said. The University of Richmond graduate, who has lived in the Fan for the past eight years, said he too enjoys going o
ut on the weekends from time to time, “but the constant noise from down there is starting to get annoying.”
The tenants at 3 Monkeys, who have lived in the building since November 2004, apparently also enjoy cooking and have earned a reputation as one of the best martini makers in the city, which leads to numerous intoxicated persons on Cavalieri’s front sidewalk each night. Despite the good food and drinks, which Cavalieri “went down and tasted once,” 3 Monkeys “doesn’t seem to ever consider the feelings of their upstairs neighbor, and maybe what I think about their up-’til 2 a.m. habits,” the mortgage lender said, pulling a pillow over his head to snuff out the heavy thump of bass currently rattling his floor. “This is just what I’m talking about. I just want to get some sleep.”
“I hate to sound like a crotchety old man, but it’s getting a little ridiculous,” he added. “This isn’t a fraternity house.”
Cavalieri said he first noticed his neighbors were heavy partiers at the start of his lease agreement when, on a Friday night, a line of “no less than 30 people” were waiting to gain entry into the building.
“If I were throwing a huge party, I would at least ask the people who lived around me if it’d be okay, and let them know I was going to be a little loud,” Cavalieri said. “And I love girls and all, but there are girls – literally hundreds of different girls – going in and out of the place all the time.”
The obnoxious habits of the downstairs tenants don’t end at partying, however. The occupants produce so much trash that they have placed a Dumpster in the rear of the two-story building, which is emptied twice a week. And Cavalierican hear numerous televisions throughout the 800-square-foot first floor running “pretty much all the time,” he said. “They apparently really like sports, and watching those sports at very high volumes.”
Cavalieri also said his neighbors don’t ever think twice about whether the weather is hot or cold, and hang out on the front porch no matter the season.
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let your bathtub overflow, or play loud music during dinner hours
or just move. you should have expected that when you decided to live above a restaurant/bar.
If I didn’t know any better I would have thought this was an article from the onion.com.
No, I’m afraid this is the kind of straight news the TA is known for.