The bar/restaurant at 206 Avenue A between East 12th Street and East 13th Street closed after service on Saturday.
Here's their official explanation, via Twitter...
Our lease is up, and it's time to move on. It's been a great 10 years. This weekend will be our last, so come on down for a few last rounds.
— Common Ground (@CommonGroundNYC) May 1, 2015The owners have another location, West 3rd Common, on West Third Street and Broadway.
As for what's next at 206… we're not sure at this time. This past November, the proprietors of The Garret on Bleecker Street went before the CB3/SLA committee for a new liquor license for the address. However, CB3 denied the application, citing concern from neighbors and the applicant's inexperience operating a business, among other reasons, according to the minutes (PDF!) of that month's meeting.
EVG - your four most recent posts: 2 closings, 2 openings, net = zero.
ReplyDeleteI wish this space would reopen as anything but a bar. Everyone on upper Avenue A and the people living around and behind Doublewide Bar on 12th Street just off Avenue A are being tortured.
ReplyDeleteThen move out of NYC if you want quiet, have you never heard the saying "NYC the city that never sleeps"
DeleteGO milk a cow
5:19, as much as I never even registered Common Ground, your swipe at Double Wide is laughable. Do you remember The Cock, or Raven or El Diablo, or Kordova Milk bar?? Seriously, 12 th and A was a magnet for every drug dealing , open sex having loud person for many, many years. I hardly think a few suburban cigarette smoking children can compare.
ReplyDeleteNo tears...Seemed like a lame bro joint to me.
ReplyDeleteI gave up on it when I returned from a trip, wanted a quick shot before home, and that was just too hard for the bartender.
10 years, that went by quick! I too barely registered this joint. Bring back Z Bar!!
ReplyDeleteI after passing by that joint hundreds of times and having eaten there once, nothing really good or bad sticks out in my mind. Just a neighborhood place that kept a low profile.
ReplyDelete@1:00 yes you are right. The Cock was "something else." Don't miss people having public sex and peeing around that corner anymore.
These "problems" that these new kids create are laughable compared to what we had to deal with in the past.
To the poster at 1 a.m.: The Cock had to be the loudest bar ever with the music blasting all night! The Raven was never a problem for us. But Doublewide Bar is bad. I think it is the type of crowd it draws--NYU kids who travel in packs and stand out front screaming and laughing and yakking. I had friends who hadn't been here in years stay in my apartment recently and they were stunned by how loud the place was. Lots of neighbors in the building above it and around it have complained to the community board but Doublewide recently got its liquor license renewed.
ReplyDeletevery common indeed….zzzzzz
ReplyDeleteBoth this space and 206 (The former laundry place) are under construction. Any word on they are going to be?
ReplyDeleteI, for one, am going to miss this place. In performed at their open mike every year for my birthday (and a few other times as well. In just found out about the closing because my birthday is coming up this weekend. Where will I go now?) and it was always a great time. The hosts would wait all year for me to do my version of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins in the Style of Arlo Guthrie." The food was good, the boardgames fun, the location convenient, and the seating comfortable. This was a "respectable" version of what used to be here. The funky, dangerous, cutting-edge, daring, groundbreaking pioneer bars are a thing of the past.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, though, why did you move into a neighborhood with bars, and before that, crime and drugs if all you are going to do is complain about them?