Zum Schneider closed in 2020, but is now doing a “pop up” beer hall on Sundays and Mondays at Rosarito Fish Shack. I can’t wait.
East Village Beerhall Zum Schneider is Back … and in Brooklyn
Mugs Ale House to Reopen as Meg’s Ale House
The rebirth of a mother Northside classic. Here’s hoping that this is a good thing.
How To Support Local Restaurants and Bars During The Covid Crisis
From Greenpointers, a very helpful list of Greenpoint (& Williamsburg) restaurants and bars, including who is (remotely) serving what and when, and – very important – GoFundMe links to support laid off staff. Help them out.
Food Market Coming to North #rd Street
Noticed something odd on the CB1 public hearing agenda for next week [link is to a non-searchable PDF]: three applications for the same address, 103 North 3rd Street. Odd, huh? Unless it is a food court, which it turns out it is. The North 3rd Street Food Market is apparently a thing. And it looks like Carnal, one of Smorgasburg’s regular vendors, will have a stall there. The other two applications are from “Jaja Brooklyn” and “LJ North 3 LLC”, neither of which are up on the SLA website.
Rye is Closing Next Saturday
I certainly didn’t get there enough.
Aborted Halloween Rave in Toxic Building Scares Up $150K in State Fines
Gwynne Hogan nails the lede:
“A developer who tried to turn a Superfund site into a super fun one…”
The article is scary, though – the owners of the NuHart Plastics superfund property have caused multiple toxic contaminant spills, including two that spilled onto the sidewalk.
Skinny Dennis
Coming soon to the former Barberry/Zipe Zape spot:
The location has operated as a bar since 1939… “These walls have been watching people drink for 70 years,” Mack rhapsodized at the bar’s opening last night. “We’re keeping them for a new generation.”
This bar also used to have a fantastic Deco bar from 1939. Unfortunately, one of the recent owners (but not these guys) tore that out.
PS – no relation.
Lights, Cameras, Williamsburg!
Williamsburg Cinemas will be one of the first places in the neighborhood that people can go to catch a blockbuster flick, filling the void left by the closure of the Commodore Theater in 2002.
I’m not sure the Commodore ever really filled that void, but first-run movies (sans alcohol) are back in Williamsburg.
Zebulon Closing
Sad – a very nice place to be, any time of the day. And the people are even nicer.
Beer Here – September Liquor License Applications
Community Board #1 – new liquor license applications
The above is a map of the 34 new applications for liquor licenses that are on the agenda for Community Board 1 at its September 12th public hearing (click on the dots to find out the information on each application). This month’s agenda has 98 liquor license applications in total, including renewals, license changes, etc. – a particularly large number because the board hasn’t met since June (actually, the number of new licenses is not that large, considering it covers three months of applications – perhaps we have reached the alcohol saturation point?).1
1 I put this together mainly as a way to play with CartoDB (the pop-ups work a bit better if you go directly to the CartoDB map, rather than trying to click around in the portal above); all of the information is from the CB1 agenda for the September meeting – errors or inaccuracies may be my fault, may be their fault or may be the fault of the various filters and encoders the data had to go through to get this map. In other words, trust, but verify (as soon as CB1 posts the September agenda).
Also, if you are looking at a world map (rather than one of Williamsburg and Greenpoint), you’ll have to zoom in manually. Some browsers (Safari, e.g.) seem to do it automatically, others (pretty much anything else I’ve tested), not so much. Sorry.Problem seems to be solved – must have been something with CartoDB.↩