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Closing Bell: Freddy's Bar - Heads Roll in Survival Fight

Categories: Closing Bell, Prospect Heights

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Freddy’s Bar and Backroom on Dean St, due to be seized through eminent domain, and demolished for the Barclay’s Arena, installed “chains of justice” to the bar for protesters to handcuff themselves to when the proprietors are evicted. Yesterday, they staged another media event, a working guillotine made of beer cans, for the execution of an effigy representing Eminent Domain. Complete with costumed Executioner and Death, the event culminated with the decapitation of “Poor eminent domain, born of a noble purpose of building hospitals and roads... being used to take Americans from their homes, not just for a British bank but also for Russia”. The event apparently drew more media than some of the more important legal and governmental meetings for AY. The fight for Freddy’s is being described by supporters as “the bars vs. banks smackdown.”
Another Freddy's Media Event [AY Report]
Photo: Amy Greer/No Land Grab

GMAP P*Shark DOB



By Montrose Morris at December 28, 2009 4:00 PM | Comments (28)

28 Comments

By dirty_hipster on December 28, 2009 4:02 PM

stupid hipsters. get a job

By IronBalls on December 28, 2009 4:06 PM


Too bad. Not a bad place if you're into fat chicks.

By dirty_hipster on December 28, 2009 4:07 PM

I know when I want something I make sure to get really drunk, wear a funny costume and cause a ruckus on the sidewalk.

By jessibaby on December 28, 2009 4:08 PM

Works with fat chicks.

By daveinbedstuy on December 28, 2009 4:11 PM

God invented gays so fat chicks would have someone to dance with.

By dirty_hipster on December 28, 2009 4:12 PM

"Too bad. Not a bad place if you're into fat chicks."

I knew I liked AY for a reason.

By infinitejester on December 28, 2009 4:31 PM

I have played dead on that sidewalk. The guy in the top hat is an excellent bartender. I'm the only regular PLUSA who goes here too - it's my after hours spot, the place I go when I decide I want one more drink but dont want to stay in my local.

Last Sunday night after I finished packing for my trip home for Xmas, I went to Freddy's to see the "chain-in". The owner, Donald, was sitting at the bar and a few others were there but not chained up. the bartender I dislike was there so I didn't stay.

By jessibaby on December 28, 2009 4:35 PM

Jester, come on, don't hold back: did you ever score with any of the fatties?

By infinitejester on December 28, 2009 4:48 PM

Never ever taken a woman home from a bar. A milestone I hope to achieve someday:).

I've never noticed a preponderance of fatties, however I have noticed many Jewish gals with bobs.

By daveinbedstuy on December 28, 2009 4:51 PM

Don't worry, jester. I've never taken a woman home from a bar either.

By dirty_hipster on December 28, 2009 4:54 PM

"Never ever taken a woman home from a bar. A milestone I hope to achieve someday:)."

always go to their place - lots of crazies.

By etson on December 28, 2009 4:55 PM

"the bartender I dislike was there so I didn't stay."

At least you can never end up with a hangover when she is serving. She's so slow it's impossible to get drunk in the first place.

"Jewish gals with bobs."
Bobs? Boobs? or both?

By Butterfly on December 28, 2009 4:57 PM

quote:
Never ever taken a woman home from a bar. A milestone I hope to achieve someday:).


perhaps if you didnt call them all b-tches and the C word to their faces you wouldnt have that problem... just sayin ;)

*rob*

By infinitejester on December 28, 2009 5:03 PM

"bobs" - a specific style of haircut, like a pageboy sort of. Triggers some kind of animal lust in me.

Rob, duly noted. But never told a woman she was a b*tch.

By jessibaby on December 28, 2009 5:04 PM

Anyone know how much (if anything) Freddy's got as its "just compensation" for the taking?

By jessibaby on December 28, 2009 5:22 PM

Jeepers, hard to fight the good fight when your only property interest is two years left on a lease with landlord FCR:

"Freddy's operates in a building owned by Forest City Ratner but has two years left on its lease, which is why the state would use eminent domain to move Freddy's out."

By fsrg on December 28, 2009 5:23 PM

Brilliant! this should end well.....

By infinitejester on December 28, 2009 5:25 PM

They're just fucking around, material possessions are not the point. Having madcap adventures is.

By jessibaby on December 28, 2009 5:29 PM

They're just fucking around, material possessions are not the point. Having madcap adventures is.

Posted by: infinitejester at December 28, 2009 5:25 PM

Ok, then DH got it right with his first post.

By infinitejester on December 28, 2009 5:33 PM

But they do have jobs - they run the bar

By bxgrl on December 28, 2009 5:42 PM

"Bobs are also a nickname for nose jobs.

By jessibaby on December 28, 2009 5:45 PM

But they do have jobs - they run the bar

Posted by: infinitejester at December 28, 2009 5:33 PM

Not the bartenders, IJ, the fauxtesters.

By Big Jugs on December 28, 2009 7:04 PM

These guys have spent too much time playing dungeon and dragons. This silly street theater will, as the rest of their efforts, accomplish absolutely nothing.

BTW, how many attended this event? 15? 20?

By BrooklynLove on December 28, 2009 8:01 PM

hey montro'se morri's. freddy's yes, barclay's no.

is it possible to demolish these 2 pollutions to the human gene pool along with their shitty bar?

By dannyhellman on December 29, 2009 12:27 AM

"This silly street theater will, as the rest of their efforts, accomplish absolutely nothing."

Unfortunately true, because scumbag developers and corrupt politicians have got this shit all sewn up.

By northflatbushgirl on December 29, 2009 4:27 PM

waaahhh! Dont take the bar!! wahhhh! now I dont have a place to get trashed afterwork. Waahhhhh! Now I cant sit for 5 hours over a $6 beer and my laptop. WHAaaaaHHH, Please dont take my bar, where in the world would I get another beer! WHAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
btw, 6 numnuts chained to the bar wont make a difference. Find another cause....
I have an idea, chain your nuts to the bar.

By Big Jugs on December 29, 2009 6:31 PM

Thank God for corrupt politicians and scumbag developers! Otherwise, morons like those pictured above would be in charge and we'd have nothing but a hole in the ground for the next century.

By dannyhellman on December 30, 2009 10:29 AM

"Thank God for corrupt politicians and scumbag developers?" Don't come crying to me when the state seizes your property to make way for a Planet Hollywood.

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