Residents of Miami Beach denounce the deplorable sanitary conditions in the patio of a nightclub which is directly adjacent to their apartments. They ensure that no one in the club or in the city responds to their complaints.

This is the backyard of “The Exchange” club in Miami Beach: piled up garbage, stagnant water. All this, a few meters from the wall of the residential building located at 1535 Drexel Avenue.

Francisco Álvarez, the administrator of the property where twelve families reside, invited us on site to denounce what they describe as a constant nightmare.

“Because the clogging lasts for years. Sometimes dead animals have been found there, cats, raccoons, dead people. It’s unbearable to be on our patio”.

Along with the dirty water flowing onto the property, they also worry about the spread of disease.

This morning we found no one when we went to the club. We called the number on their website several times and no answer. We wrote on their social media and emails and attached photos of what we saw, but they also did not respond.

Maria Valle, owner of the building, declares: “and not only that, it is the noise of the discotheque which affects all the buildings which are at the back”.

Valle says that for the past year and a half, she hasn’t had any luck either.

“We haven’t known how to get in touch with them for about a year. We can not”.

A neighbor assures that the complaints also come from neighboring buildings and, apparently, the city does not respond to them either.

“I have a claim number in the city. They didn’t give me an answer. They tell me that they have no one to see the problem”.

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