My friend and I live in an apartment in Brooklyn, NY and everything is perfect except for the psychopath who lives below us.  

We got the apartment for ridiculously cheap, but what the seller didn't tell us is that there is an alcoholic living below us who owns several stacked amplifiers and likes to play top 40's music at concert levels throughout the night and day.  We've asked him several times after reasonable hours (12AM on Monday etc.) to turn down the music so that it's not shaking our rooms, but every time we've done this he's been too drunk to understand what we're talking about and refuses anyway.  We are also two girls in our early twenties and he is a man in his 40s and he's pretty intimidating.  In the past week, the cops have been called on him twice: once for smoking weed with his door open and once because he turned on his concert speakers and left them playing all night long (the cops came at 6 AM and broke down the door).

The landlord seems to want to help us, but according to him, the laws are such that it is nearly impossible to evict him (despite the fact that he is directly violating the apartment contract) unless we constantly record his disruptions.  The psycho has run off two previous tenants.  The landlord even offered to buy us a decibel measuring device.  We are meeting with the landlord on Tuesday to discuss taking the tenant to court.

We really really love the apartment and everything else about it is perfect (including everyone else in the building who we like and also hate this guy).  We are students and we work so quiet is necessary.  We are really sad that we have to start looking at apartments again, but the current situation is unbearable.

Does Reddit have any advice on how we can stay in this heavenly apartment and help everyone else in the building by getting this guy to turn down his music?
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Psycho neighbor keeps playing loud music at concert levels during the wee hours of the morning and refuses to stop despite our
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My friend and I live in an apartment in Brooklyn, NY and everything is perfect except for the psychopath who lives below us.  

We got the apartment for ridiculously cheap, but what the seller didn't tell us is that there is an alcoholic living below us who owns several stacked amplifiers and likes to play top 40's music at concert levels throughout the night and day.  We've asked him several times after reasonable hours (12AM on Monday etc.) to turn down the music so that it's not shaking our rooms, but every time we've done this he's been too drunk to understand what we're talking about and refuses anyway.  We are also two girls in our early twenties and he is a man in his 40s and he's pretty intimidating.  In the past week, the cops have been called on him twice: once for smoking weed with his door open and once because he turned on his concert speakers and left them playing all night long (the cops came at 6 AM and broke down the door).

The landlord seems to want to help us, but according to him, the laws are such that it is nearly impossible to evict him (despite the fact that he is directly violating the apartment contract) unless we constantly record his disruptions.  The psycho has run off two previous tenants.  The landlord even offered to buy us a decibel measuring device.  We are meeting with the landlord on Tuesday to discuss taking the tenant to court.

We really really love the apartment and everything else about it is perfect (including everyone else in the building who we like and also hate this guy).  We are students and we work so quiet is necessary.  We are really sad that we have to start looking at apartments again, but the current situation is unbearable.

Does Reddit have any advice on how we can stay in this heavenly apartment and help everyone else in the building by getting this guy to turn down his music?
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Psycho neighbor keeps playing loud music despite our requests. How can we get him to stop without taking legal action?
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