Tag: nightlife

Crown Vic

06/29/2011 | Comment

Interesting item on CB1’s crowded liquor license agenda this month – an application for a bar at 60 South 2nd Street, to be called Crown Victoria. A bar, on a list of 34 bars and restaurants (it was a quiet month), is not that interesting.

But the location is – this is a site that was just rezoned for residential use. The garage at 60 South 2nd, soon to be converted to an eating and drinking establishment, sits on the portion of the property that is slated for affordable housing as part of a larger development. According to the owners of Crown Vic, they have a 10-year lease.

Fushimi on Driggs

Fushimi, the Asian Fusion restaurant with branches in Staten Island and Bay Ridge, is getting ready to sling sashimi in a new, 7,200-square-foot space on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg. The restaurant revealed on its website that it plans to serve its Japanese specialties in an open bar under a 30-foot glass-enclosed ceiling, promising a “family-friendly, yet stylish setting that will appeal to upscale, late-night crowds, as well as families and hipsters alike.” LOL!

Fushimi* = Asian fusion, get it?

Coming soon to 475 Driggs, the new condo at the corner of North 10th.

It Is Still Safe to Drink in Williamsburg

05/06/2011 | Comment

CB1’s Public Safety Committee held a very long meeting tonight, which ended with a discussion of the “moratorium” (apparently it started with that too, but I missed the opening hour). CB1 Chairman Chris Olechowski presented some recommendations from the Board’s Executive Committee that were based on guidelines used by CB3 in Manhattan. They were, for the most part, pretty common sensical – using the 500′ rule more, not approving rear yard uses in residential districts, limiting approvals on residential streets. It’s not clear how those rules would fit into the reality of CB1, but the Committee agreed that they were worth further study.

And so, no moratorium (this month).

RIP Brooklyn Night Bazaar

The organizer behind this Brooklyn Night Bazaar concept has decided not to go forward with the project this year. I was actually supposed to meet with him yesterday morning, but got a call that the whole thing was being put off until next year. Hopefully next time around he’ll have a better organized (and communicated) plan in place – after hearing from opponents and supporters and reading through everything that the organizer published, I still have no idea whether or not this was a serious endeavor, what it really was (a market? a concert venue? an open-air night club?), and what the impact on/benefit for the neighborhood was.

I guess we’ll see.