Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
Proletariat, the craft beer bar via Overthrow Hospitality, ends its 14-year East Village tenure on Saturday.
However, there's a glimmer of hope for Proletariat's fans. Per the closing announcement on Instagram:
Your three favorite bartenders can't let 14 years of amazing community end, SO we are working to acquire and keep Prol alive & thriving! We're still unsure whether we'll be able to stay here or have to find a new spot, but wanted to at least give everyone the heads up.
For now, in its current iteration, April 11 is the last day.
Overthrow Hospitality's Ravi DeRossi told us that they are expanding nationally, starting with Denver and Austin, and are scaling back in NYC.
The bar got its start in the back of Jane's Sweet Buns (blast from the past!) on St. Mark's Place in May 2012 before taking over the whole space. They moved to this larger storefront on Seventh Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square in June 2022.
Meanwhile, next door, Overthrow Hospitality's mushroom-centric Third Kingdom closed on March 29.
"Third Kingdom was my favorite restaurant I ever opened, but it never did well enough to justify keeping it," DeRossi said.
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