Sweet Chick partner John Seymour tweeted the news during the afternoon.
Thank you to the State Liquor Authority for granting SC Ludlow our Liquor Licence.. Can't wait to be part of the LES community !!!
— John Seymour (@JohnSeymourNYC) March 25, 2014The SLA originally denied the license back in December … this after CB3 denied the initial application in October. As BoweryBoogie reported two weeks ago, there was a petition against Sweet Chick's opening that had the support of nearly 100 percent of the tenants in the adjoining 176-178 Ludlow St. as well as business owners on the block.
In our Our and About in the East Village feature last week, Margery Teplitz, who lives in the tenement above the incoming restaurant, expressed her concerns.
From the look of their plans, they want to put the exhaust system in the airshaft, which goes right next to my bedroom as well as a bunch of others. They also want to remain open 17 hours a day cooking fried food in a 120-year-old building that’s basically like a sieve. My neighbor upstairs makes chili a couple times a week and you can smell it for seven hours, so you can imagine fried chicken.
… We’re supposed to have a reasonable quality of life, which does not include a blaring exhaust system 17 hours a day and the smell of fried chicken.
I would rather have Max Fish
ReplyDelete"Can't wait to be part of the LES Community" The Community Board opposes you, 100 percent of the residents in the building oppose you, local businesses oppose you, yet you still jam it down the community's throat. How is that being part of the "LES Community"?
ReplyDeleteOnce again the good old SLA completely ignores the wishes of those most impacted by their decisions and grants a license no one but the bar owners want. I think it should be the law that SLA commissioners be forced to live in the neighborhoods they ruin with liquor oversaturation, rather than far from the madding crowds in the suburbs. They'd change their tunes fast.
ReplyDelete@Gogira That's not entirely true. This reminds me of the applicants for 146 Bowery where residents vehemently opposed the application as well as The Bowery Alliance Of Neighbors(BAN), CB 2 and the SLA. The Applicants then requested a reconsideration and brought support from artist Marguerite Van Cook, managing directorof the Howl Festival and "Apparently there'e some sort of partnership with the Howl Arts Festival".
ReplyDeletethere are two links from BBoogie on Odessa Cafe post.
Just disgusting absolutely disgusting.
Wonder what changed or was altered the second time around? Something in their application, proposal, petitions in support? Sometimes SLA has to approve if there are no legal grounds to deny.
ReplyDeleteIs this another application where they got Margaret Chin to change her mind? She's gone back on everything else she used to stand for.
ReplyDeleteThe only way this will ever go back to helping the residents is if we make State elected leaders change the laws. Just getting CB3 to oppose something does no good. The City has no standing -- it's a state issue. The SLA will only respond to changes in the NYS law.
please enlighten me on what business can make it in the east village without the sales of beer, wine or liquor?
ReplyDeletegreedy landlords are the main culprit but cb3's self serving, hall monitoring, old ladies add nothing positive to the table.
Lower East Side Liquer Refinery. What it propels most is turnover in real estate benefiting the property owners. Not enforcing the codes, not representing the citizens of the
ReplyDeletecommunity should result in a consequence. The boards need accountability. Who holds the boards accountable?