CB1 Presses Pause on Liquor License Moratorium
Williamsburg’s not in danger of drying up in the near future, according to reports about last night’s Community Board 1 Public Safety Committee from the Brooklyn Paper and Brooklyn 11211. The board’s recent proposal to examine ways of instituting a moratorium on new booze licenses in the neighborhood was tabled by the committee, at least…
Williamsburg’s not in danger of drying up in the near future, according to reports about last night’s Community Board 1 Public Safety Committee from the Brooklyn Paper and Brooklyn 11211. The board’s recent proposal to examine ways of instituting a moratorium on new booze licenses in the neighborhood was tabled by the committee, at least for now. According to Brooklyn 11211: “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.” The makers of Pabst can breathe easily for the moment.
Community Board Tables Bar Moratorium [Brooklyn Paper]
It is Still Safe to Drink in Williamsburg [Brooklyn 11211]
Liquor License Crackdown in Williamsburg? [Brownstoner]
Photo by josewolff.
woops! yep, fette sau
bk – i lived in WB for years. get on the subway, no one has ever puked in my front door – actually i’ve never seen puke anywhere on the sidewalk. i have a family and know tons of other families. not everyone is 22. neighborhood has some of the best restaurants in NYC. i think you’re taking your exact location of your last place and turning it into an entire neighborhood problem.
I have to admit I understand the concern. I moved out of supersaturated Williamsburg years ago because you can’t get on the damn subway in the morning and I got tired of bar noise and 22 year old hipsters puking in front of my door. Despite the fact that I moved to the neighborhood next door, I haven’t even visited Williamsburg in over 6 months. Too loud, too crowded and only a shadow of the great place it used to be. Sigh…oh well.
fette sau not hot bird
fette sau has those meat cleaver tap handles, FYI
Rogue Bars and noisy people cause the rest of the industry a headache. Just talk to some folks who have to live near these places.
@dh
The bar in the photo is HotBird
Fette Sau (fat pig)
Like most places around here it is a Restaurant with a bar
I don’t think its open late like a plain bar is
I agree with AliHajiSheik – a lot of the places around here are nice restaurants that serve alcohol – these are rarely a big problem.
Now if just a plain bar opens on my block i would be singing a different tune but if its a nice restaurant that closes after dinnertime and is indoors i welcome it.
what bar is that a picture of?
Better proposal than the lazy solution of a blanket ban. There is no reason a restaurant with reasonable hours should not be able to serve drinks, and the practical effect of a flat moratorium would be to kill off new restaurants and discourage people from coming to Williamsburg to eat out or start new businesses. Its a bit hard to define what streets are residential in Williamsburg though; other than Bedford, Broadway, Grand and maybe N. 6th between Kent and Beford, what street isn’t mixed?
Makes sense to me. When a neighborhood is over-saturated with bars, it does no one any good. And rear-yard usage should be limited IMO.