For six years, Tim Doocey complained to anyone who would listen about Lounge 47, the bar that moved in next door to his home on Vernon Boulevard. Patrons would shout boisterously from the garden in back. Smokers chattered piercingly in the front. It got so loud that he had trouble grading the papers of his college students in his living room. Doocey tried shutting all the windows to muffle the noise, but the sound filtered in. One night, he dragged the furniture from one side of the apartment to the other hoping to find a quiet spot, but there was no place to escape in his apartment.

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