Several residents have pointed out that the proprietor looking to secure a liquor license for the former Company Bar and Grill space on East 10th Street is looking to meet his potential new neighbors.
The applicant, Avi Burnbaum, has listed two different time blocks to meet at the Bean on First Avenue and East Ninth Street ... and if these don't work, he'll make arrangements for another time.
As we've previously pointed out, paperwork filed ahead of Monday's CB3/SLA committee meeting includes an extensive "good neighbor plan" to show how Big Pink will work to keep things quiet outside the establishment.
It's noteworthy because we can't recall an applicant in recent years going to such lengths to talk with residents before a CB3/SLA meeting. (Read more about the plans for the space here.)
The CB3/SLA meeting is Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Board 3 Office, 59 E. Fourth St. between Second Avenue and the Bowery.
I'm in the East Village and the bar a couple doors down from me also put up notices saying they wanted to meet with the local residents. They promised they would keep the noise down, yadda yadda. All bullshit.
ReplyDeleteMost community boards are requiring a probationary period 2AM closing time for new establishments with liquor licenses for their first year of operation. This is because they have heard all these good neighbor pledges before only to find out they a have another Superdive on their hands, with midgets dressed as pirates serving champagne while sitting on a keg of beer.
ReplyDeleteIf they allow a 7 day/4am closing time for a new bar with live music right off the bat, in the middle of a densely populated residential area, then I guess anyone can come in an open anything they want, so why do we need a community board anyway?
If that happens then I guess my dream of opening a beer pong palace run by transvestite midgets dressed in togas hanging from a trapeze while serving organic cocktails in frozen coconut shells may still be alive.
You guys don't understand, the community board represents the community alright, the community of carpetbagger dealers of mind numbing souling sucking intoxicants. They just want to get ahead of the game and see how many Carrie Nations they will have to arrange to get evicted.
ReplyDelete...a beer pong palace run by transvestite midgets dressed in togas hanging from a trapeze while serving organic cocktails in frozen coconut shells...
ReplyDeleteSounds like Tuesday nights at Grieve's (or so I hear--I never got past security).
These bars can make all the promises they want but when they open that all goes out the window and it is almost impossible to get anything done about the noise. I lived across a street from a loud bar for years and called the police regularly. I even had an inspector come out with a sound level reader. The bar eventually shut down but it didn't have anything to do with our complaints. The guys ran out of money. Another bar replaced it and the noise continues.
ReplyDeleteDoes this guy know there is a Big Pink in Miami? It's a famous place. I don't know if they have a copyright on the name but I would look into it.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just the immediate noise that spills out every time the front door opens but the packs of drunks which spill out and roam the streets afterwards spreading noise, vomit and lost sleep to all within earshot.
ReplyDeletePinhead....I know the feeling.....HUGE dude at the door looks at me and in the drollest of voices asks me ....."Do you blog?" (while turning his head ever so slightly)....I said nope, just a friendly commenter.....that's when I saw the "For Bloggers Only!" sign.....bummed....
ReplyDelete@DrBOP: I feel your pain. Folks like us will never be more than "friends" or "regulars". Just once I'd like to peer through a blogger portal and not feel dirty.
ReplyDelete@pinhead
ReplyDeleteIt's Monday night! The CB3/SLA committee has it Tuesday nights!
As long as one of the CB3 SLA committee members is someone who owns a club that they want to sell when the price is highest, these sort of place get a free pass for their license.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, it's not the bar's responsibility or even their FAULT if drunk douchebag frat boys want to prance around the east village literally singing and screaming at the top of their lungs, or if basic bitches want to drink until they throw up on your stoop while hysterically crying about how much they love their best friend. The noise that these patrons create is hardly ever an issue when it's inside the actual bar, and is always an issue when they're walking down the street by your apartment window trying to hail a cab or get into a fist fight or sing their college alma mater (I shit you not).
ReplyDeleteThe most any bar can do, really, is keep their music down or close earlier in the night. Or prohibit entry to all males in striped or peach-colored shorts and all chicks wearing heels higher than one inch (rookie/yuppie move tbh).