Hialeah police did not respond to a request for comment from New Times. Sunday, Miami Springs police urged residents to report the noise to the Hialeah PD and tagged and '#HialeahPolice.' 'Unbelievable that the music is so loud it travels for miles,' commented another.

'The music/noise pollution coming from one of our neighboring cities is unacceptable,' one Facebook user posted on the Miami Springs Community Spotlight page. Factory Town hosted concerts into the wee hours every night from Thursday through Sunday, featuring performances by Loco Dice, Michael Bibi, and Claptone.Ī post shared by Factory Town Though the warehouse space doesn't have any immediate residential neighbors in Hialeah, the sound from the venue appears to have traveled all the way to Miami Springs, Mayberry-like hamelt of roughly 14,000 residents, mostly young families and retirees, according to U.S. But the decibels seemed to have been cranked up this past weekend for Miami Art Week.

The event space opened over Halloween weekend and has hosted live music and DJs since. But there wasn't much they could do, because its source - Factory Town, an outdoor music venue in an industrial warehouse district - was out of their jurisdiction at 4800 NW 37th Ave. Sunday, Miami Springs Police Department dispatchers say, they'd received more than 100 calls complaining about the noise. Curtiss) yet sports a markedly different cultural and urban identity, one that sometimes puts the neighboring municipalities at odds with one another.īy 1:30 a.m. No windows were broken: It turned out the loud music wasn't coming from the neighbors or even a house down the street, but from an entertainment venue nearly two miles away in Hialeah, a municipality that borders Miami Springs and was founded by the same aviation pioneer (Glen H. 'It was maddening,' he tells New Times in Spanish. Though he tries to stay on good terms with his neighbors, Robert Torres was so sleep-deprived and desperate, he was tempted to throw rocks at the neighbors' window to get them to turn down the music. Then they figured the reverberating noise was coming from the house next door: It felt that close. Septuagenarian retirees Robert and Lilia Torres couldn't fall asleep on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, owing to the persistent 'boom, boom, boom' of the bass that thumped through their Miami Springs home until 3 a.m.Īt first the pair thought their roof was going to collapse on top of them.

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