The folks living around the Muse Hotel on 46th Street are up in arms about the doorman and his blasted whistling, hailing cabs for hotel guests and absolutely ruining the peace and quiet everyone has become accustomed to in midtown Manhattan. It's even driving some residents to nonsensical hyperbole! "It’s just very obnoxious, very loud and very persistent," Leah Nelson, the prop master at the Lyceum Theater told the Times. "It’s like Chinese water torture."
The complaints have gotten so serious that police once had to intervene after a threatening message was left for a couple, demanding that they back down from their fight against the bellman. The whistling began in 2009, and though most bellmen use lights to hail cabs, one continues to whistle. In case you need an example of what a whistle sounds like, the Times has a seven second recording of one. Now Brooklyn, there's a borough that knows how to complain about noise.
