JAM SESSION: The crowd far exceeds the pool area’s legal capacity at last Sunday’s wild Gansevoort Hotel party. (Gabriella Bass)
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The hundreds of noisy, rowdy partygoers who have been driving neighbors of a trendy hotel off the deep end turned into only about 50 yesterday after management began enforcing the occupancy limit at its outdoor pool.
Two employees of the Gansevoort Park Avenue Hotel were stationed at elevators on the ground floor and pool level, dutifully using clickers to count off the scenesters they allowed in.
Yesterday’s bash was a semiprivate affair sponsored by Maxim magazine.
Bracelets, which served as tickets of admission to the pool area, were handed out by a pretty young woman in a tiny black shirt.
Everyone on the sponsors’ VIP list got a bracelet, as did some others.
The Post reported that on the previous Sunday, as many as 300 people packed the hotel’s 19th-floor pool deck, making so much noise that one woman whose apartment overlooks the scene said, her “windows were vibrating.’’
The limit for the pool area is 54. The combined limit for the pool and adjacent enclosed lounge is 254.
Two Buildings Department inspectors were stationed at the pool yesterday. They were joined by three cops, one in plainclothes, as well as Health Department inspectors.
“Today was much, much better,’’ said a resident of the neighboring building who asked to be identified only as Paul. “My guess is the photo [in The Post] is what did it.’’
The photo showed scores of bikini-clad women who managed to gyrate to the music although they were more crammed together than rush-hour commuters on the 6 train.
Paul, who was returning home after a bicycle ride around the neighborhood, said, “I don’t know if this is a trend.’’
He expressed a fear that things would go back to the way they were the week before at the hotel’s weekly daylight “summer series’’ afternoon blasts.
Paul’s neighbor, Andrew Davis, 26, was not convinced that the relative quiet would last.
“It seems like less people today,’’ he said. “But it’s not 95 degrees, and it’s not great pool weather. I would need more weeks of warmer weather to see if there’s a change.’’