Late-night noise from a Coney Island Avenue watering hole has area residents steaming.
Complaints about the establishment, Passion, at1814 Coney Island Ave., between Avenue N and Avenue O, were voiced during the December meeting of Community Board 12, which was held at the Amico Senior Center, 59th Street and 13th Avenue.
“We need the Sandman to come back to Coney Island Avenue,” remarked Ben Miller, an area resident, in a subsequent interview. “You couldn’t even imagine that someone would open a club in such a quiet neighborhood.”
The club plays loud music late on Saturdays, Miller told members of CB12. “We can’t sleep all night.”
“The whole community is complaining,” added his mother, Edith Miller.
The problems began in the spring, according to the Millers.
When the club opened as New York Underground, he said, “they were open Thursday through Sunday, and they didn’t care about the neighbors. The manager said they would put in soundproofing, but they did nothing. You could hear the music, especially the bass, through the neighborhood %u2013 boom, boom, boom %u2013 and it would play till 4 a.m.
“We went to community board meetings and brought it to their attention, so the police came and issued the appropriate summonses and violations,” Miller went on. “Now, they are just open Saturday night. That’s recent. For months, we were suffering on the Sabbath.”
Besides the loud music, there are other problems with the club, Miller averred. “People stand outside smoking and yelling,” he reported. “And there are people stumbling drunk around the block.”
Residents have been complaining about the club for about the last six months, confirmed Wolf Sender, CB 12’s district manager, in a subsequent interview.
“We got the cops involved,” Sender recalled. “They gave them violations and they went out of business. Now, they have a different name and they are doing it again.”
At the board meeting, Lieutenant James Selleck, of the 66th Precinct, recalled that the precinct had done enforcement at the club.
“They changed their name for a reason,” he averred, promising the Millers, “We took care of them the first time. We’ll get on it.”
By press time, the club had not responded to a call requesting comment.
