rritated neighbors of the swanky Gansevoort Park Avenue Hotel - popular with the likes of Kim Kardashian - are billing the management for the hours party-goers are keeping them awake.
The fashionable hotel, in the Murray Hill district of Manhattan regularly hosts revelers until 4 a.m. at their rooftop bar that boasts a pool and where many scenes of the show 'Kourtney and Kim Take New York' were filmed.
So far, six residents on Park Avenue South have sent invoices to hotel management charging $1,000 an hour for lost sleep as late-night celebrations keep them awake till 4 a.m.
Fed-up residents who live next door Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel in Manhattan's Murray Hill have taken to billing the management for loss of sleep
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries lived at the Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel in Murray Hill while they filmed 'Kourtney and Kim Take New York'
'It's a circus. The situation is absolutely unbearable,' said Mario Messina, a neighbor and advertising executive who came up with the figure based on his professional rate.
On one day alone, the hotel was billed $21,350 on April 14th alone - and the irate neighbors are praying that the management gets the message.
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'They give great lip service, but the only thing they pay attention to is their wallets,' said Messina.
The invoices, seen by the New York Post, have spreadsheet columns for 'hours, rate and amount owed.'
This notes the total amount of hours the residents are claiming they are kept awake while the hotel opens it doors for its Gansevoort Rooftop Saturdays parties.
So much for peaceful Sunday afternoons: Hundreds of champagne-swilling, scantily-clad party-goers jam into the rooftop pool deck of the Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel for Summer Series parties
While only six neighbors have biled the hotel, a group of around 50 local residents have signed up to the 29h Street Neighborhood Association to air their grievances against the hotel.
The association has pleaded with the hotel and police to tone down the parties, but neighbors claim the bashes have gotten worse.
'They keep saying they’ll fix it,' Messina said to the New York Post.
While police in Manhattan's 13th Precinct try to restrict the parking in front of the hotel to alleviate the noise, taxis and limos regularly flout these controls.
'They shouldn’t be doing that,' one cop reportedly admitted to neighbors according to the New York Post.
Crowded: A sign by the pool at the hotel indicates that it holds a limit of 66 people - which in itself is 12 people too many than the maximum capacity for that area, which is set by the city's Building Department
Last year neighbors of the upscale Gansevoort Park Avenue Hotel in Manhattan's trendy midtown are up in arms over the hundreds of intoxicated, bikini-clad party-goers who flock to the rooftop deck every Sunday for their Summer Series pool parties.
Local Greg Housset, 24, whose apartment overlooks the Gansevoort's notorious swimming pool, told the New York Post: 'I try to not be home on Sundays. The last thing you want are a bunch of crazy people with loud techno music until 8 or 9pm.
'Even when the windows are closed, you feel like there’s a sub-woofer in your apartment.'
Dancers: Shaking their thing on a raised platform in the middle of the pool
Neighbor: Mary Ellen Maher, 49, said that when she and her husband bought the expensive and upscale apartment in December, they had no idea what was ahead of them in the summer months
The hoards of revelers who spend the hours of 3.30pm to 8.30pm dancing to DJ Chuckie's booming tunes are also said to violate city building codes.
A sign by the pool at the hotel indicates that it holds a limit of 66 people - which in itself is 12 people too many than the maximum capacity for that area, which is set by the city's Building Departments.
Mr Housset said he complained about both the racket and the fact it is not safe for so many people to be on the roof.
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Another neighbor, Mary Ellen Maher, 49, told the paper that when she and her husband bought the expensive and upscale apartment in December, they had no idea what was ahead of them in the summer months.
'The bass will start, and the windows will vibrate. The windows literally move. It’s like South Beach,' she said.
At least 300 people can be packed into the roof deck for the party - with hundreds more lining up around the corner to try to get into the trendy hotel - which charges $2,750 for a table-service bottle of Veuve Clicquot Champagne.
Local Greg Housset, 24, whose apartment overlooks the Gansevoort's notorious swimming pool told the New York Post: 'I try to not be home on Sundays. The last thing you want are a bunch of crazy people with loud techno music until 8 or 9pm
Scene: Some scantily-clad ladies can be seen wrapping themselves around half-naked muscly torsos and two young women can be seen in the middle of the pool on a raised platform dancing sexily together
Cheaper bottles can be bought for a mere $200, but an employee at the pool revealed they are mainly bought so patrons can spray one another.
Cocktails start at $15 - a drop in the ocean in comparison with the bubbly on offer.
The revelers, in various stages of undress - with some covering up in hot pants and t-shirts while others dare to bare in bikinis or bare chests - dance together, drink together, shoot water guns, frolic in the pool and make out.
Some scantily-clad ladies can be seen wrapping themselves around half-naked muscly torsos.
Two young women can be seen in the middle of the pool on a raised platform dancing sexily together. Others enjoy cigarettes, blast air horns or do shots.
Kelli Carucci, food-service manager at the rooftop space, said the crowds hover at about 300 and denied claims that almost 500 people are sometimes crammed in.
'We try our best to respect our neighbors. We know that there are people who are at home trying to enjoy their Sunday,' she told the Post. 'Some of the neighbors understand that we are trying to run a business.'
The hotel, NYPD and surrounding residents have met up to try and resolve their differences. Last week's meeting came to no foregone conclusion though a community spokesman says they will 'continue to work together towards an amicable resolution.'
A hotel representative said: 'At the Gansevoort Park Avenue Summer Series, ample security is provided, ensuring a fun and safe environment for our guests. To date, we have had zero safety incidents.'