When the Jane Hotel opened on its namesake street in the West Village, neighbors welcomed her with quintessential New York indifference. That was until she turned in to a debauched hot spot for the city's social savants. When the din of taxi traffic started ruining their REM cycles and ciggy smoke started killing their begonias, the neighbors said 'Oh hell nah!' and took to their blogs in protest.
What's life without a friendly neighborhood feud, especially the kind that's really public and embarrassing and plays out on blogs and YouTube like some trash-tastic soap opera for your viewing enjoyment? Maybe the Jane Street Block Association and Jane Hotel are just trying to fill the void left by the canceling of Guiding Light? Regardless of their reasoning, it makes for entertaining fodder for outlets like Curbed. Let's hope Jane Street residents don't start airing their dirty laundry like those crazies in Cooper Square.
