Mostly tapped american style I must admit. We will have an english cider on tap and a couple of english beers too. the truth is these days thats actually more then a pub in England has these days. I will say this. There will be a lot of English and Irish around as all the investors sans myself are from there.

Posted by: mule at May 11, 2009 4:15 PM in response to Streetlevel: Black Horse Pub Opening Soon

The Black Horse pub should open around May 30th as full disclosure I am an investor.

It will be an English Pub including English breakfast on the weekends a Snday Roast ,along with Football matches shown in the mornings on the weekends as well. We actually are an official World Cup Soccer bar although I honestly have to say I don't know who gave us the official designation. Pub food will be available during other times.

The bar itself will be 33 feet long inside and has 16 taps. What exactly we have on the menu I am not entirely sure of.

lastly the internet link is blackhorsebrooklyn.com although the website is not fully built there are photos of it being built in progress althoghh they were taken about 2 weeks back.

Hope to see you soon.

Posted by: mule at May 11, 2009 3:23 PM in response to Streetlevel: Black Horse Pub Opening Soon

hey Boerum Hill you dont think Yankee Stadium brings in tourists and people dont go out in the neighborhood before a game. You obviously have never been to Yankee Stadium (or a sports fan). So you obviously hate public subsidies for a sports team (would BAM exist without public money?).

So why dont you do us a favor Boerum Hill and go to a Yankee game and see how many people are on the streets and then report back to us. This does not mean that i agree with sport subsidies as a whole and that they all make economic sense but one should not speculate on something they no nothing about.

And the judge didnt sympathize with the ruling, only that he understood that he understood that they had concerns. Concerns that had nothing to do with the law suit.

Lets face it, (and i dont agree with giving Ratner the money),but regardless Brooklyn will be so much better with the Barclay Center.

The worst thing about this is the Nets would have had Lebron and NIMBYS stopped it.

Posted by: mule at February 27, 2009 4:04 PM in response to Ratner Wins Another Round of Yards Lawsuits

is it true that brownstoner thinks opening a chain store cohens optical is a positive note for park slope? would brownstoner be for a gap, benettons, mcdonalds,office depot etc. any other chains would you like to see in park slope or for that matter clinton hill brownstoner? just curious

Posted by: mule at February 17, 2009 7:50 PM in response to Storefront Turnover on 7th Avenue

oh and worse yet is the house on 18th street would actualy sell for more then 88th street.

Posted by: mule at January 30, 2009 4:59 PM in response to Open House Picks

I live in Bay Ridge and drive by this house everyday to work. Its been on the market for 2 plus months at least and from the outside seems extremely nice not mcmasion at all. It also happens to be in one of the more desirable areas of bay ridge and i think other then the views Narrows ave is nicer then Shore Rd. In my opinion Prime Bay RIdge is between 75th street to 90th street and 3rd avenue to the Shore.

As for the price a house as large but not nearly as nice sold twice for over 2 million dollars on my block (one guy bought the house and got divorced within a year and sold again).

Lastly Im really getting tired of subsudizing real estate taxes for the rest of brooklyn. I bought my house for 670K 4 years ago and the taxes for a 16x50 semi detached house are 4000 dollars. A house eye own on 18th street worth about the same amount i pay 1300 dollars on. In fact I just got my new city assessment on both. Here they are

18th Street
2007 622000
2008 578000

88th Street

2007 745000
2008 788000

So my taxes are going up in Bay Ridge again, while they are going down in the South Slope. Due to the citys archaic property tax system we are already paying triple in Bay Ridge to Park Slope. This means im paying more then most people in 2 million dollar brownstones. I am going to appeal as in this market I would be lucky top to get the city market value of 2007 of 745000, let alone 788000 would be dreaming. Anybody here ever appeal their property tax assesment.

Posted by: mule at January 30, 2009 4:55 PM in response to Open House Picks

nyc pet opened 3 doors down from this place recetly in the chinese takeout that went out. its funny on brownstoner they picked on 7th avenue south slope yesterday saying stores are turning over all the time. my take on it is stores all over brownstone brookln and DUMBO are going out all the time. in this economy only the strong will survive. i hope im one of them.

Posted by: mule at October 8, 2008 6:06 PM in response to BBQ Extinguished at Lookout Hill

so again as i see your source , your telling me 42 percent signed an option arm. but a rise of 63 % of 804 makes the payment approx 1500 dollars an interest rate of 6 percent. did a person who took a 1 percent teaser rate expect one percent forever?? i doubt most of these house will foreclose(unless flipping) given that i would think most buyers would understand they would reset within a year and know their future payment.

Posted by: mule at October 2, 2008 10:39 AM in response to Buyers Cooling to Brooklyn

dave in bedstuy, i dont know where you get your numbers from but they make zero sense.

for a 250000 dollar mortgage to have a 804 payment it needs a mortgage with an interest rate 1%. how many people have these ??

for the same mortgage to go to $2027 it would have to adjust to over 9%. anyone who took a teaser rate mortgage at 1% that adjusts to 9% is an idiot who deserves to lose their home.

how man people in brooklyn do you think actually have this type of mortgage. this scenario is hyperbole at its best.

Posted by: mule at October 2, 2008 10:34 AM in response to Buyers Cooling to Brooklyn

actually prices start at 334000 according to the website. they are ugly. make them under 300k and maybe they sell.

Posted by: mule at September 16, 2008 10:31 AM in response to Sales Begin at Greenwood Plaza

as i posted before the waterfalls just plain suck. and as noted before it is still causing rubbernecking on the bqe during the summer of 4 dollar plus gas, costing truckers and motorists probably hundreds of thousands of dollars while they spew off extra pollution. and before you write in and say they must be good because people are rubbernecking to see them people would look at anything that was different on the side of a highway.

did i mention they suck. what a waste of money. im going to take a shower now with a flashlight to duplicate this great artistic feat.

Posted by: mule at August 22, 2008 10:27 AM in response to Friday Links

this building is probably not a bad rental as it has about 9 windows per apartment. and actually its not all that terrible especially given what it replaced which i think is an empty lot. given the narrow lot i think they did an ok job. aren't we suppose to be creating affordable housing? just my 2 cents.

Posted by: mule at August 18, 2008 8:47 PM in response to The City's Most Prolific Architect

lets see whats wrong with this.

1)doesn't pay rent, while competing business pays ten thousand dollars in rent, electricity, city taxes, needs to be up to health code etc, etc,etc.

2)blocks bus stop on corner of 9th street

3)blocks view of another rent paying business (brooklyn industries) from potential shoppers

4)unlikely to pay personal taxes

so basically this guy plops himself down one of the best corners in brooklyn with no overhead.

the other thing the brooklyn heights vendor not unlike the one in the north slope occupies a parking spot. now i know if i feed the meter i can get a ticket regardless if it shows time on the meter. so why don't they get parking infractions. oh and they take up a spot from another rent paying business for another potential customer.

too bad for him when i was passing by i think he was getting arrested tonight...seriously. lets see if the cart is there tomorrow.

Posted by: mule at August 7, 2008 8:44 PM in response to Closing Bell: Happy Fruit Men Everywhere

i actually looked at the apartment below this one in 1998 for 76k dollars. i didnt buty it because this corner is a major local hangout, i dont think all of the apartments are converted to co ops and has some rent control living in them. that said the bodega on the corner is not too bad and they still only charge 75 cents for a can of coke.

Posted by: mule at July 31, 2008 8:35 PM in response to Co-op of the Day: 396 12th Street, #2R

i pay 9000 dollars for 1200 sq ft on a better stretch on seventh ave in a lease i signed within a year. unless its food i dont see more then this possible.

Posted by: mule at July 25, 2008 10:34 AM in response to The Tea Lounge Bids Adieu

most of the people on this blog who dump on staten island have never been there . all they know is manhattan,brownstone and hipster brooklyn. then they make broad comments on an area they never have seen.although i wouldn't live in staten island due to its isolation there are some really nice places there and some really horrible ones too. look bed stuy and williamsburg isn't for everybody. these are the same people who hate bay ridge,douglaston,forest hill gardens (how come brownstoner never shows those great houses).

lastly don't you know to them staten island is not diverse. to them diversity is having all people of different colors thinking exactly liberally alike and having the same socioeconomic backround as them(im one of them). diversity is having a designer kitchen exactly like your neighbors. don't you know people from outside new york and lived here for 3 years are better then those of us who grew up here?

Posted by: mule at July 7, 2008 12:38 PM in response to Monday Links

will 3:07 please stop spamming about la taq and the 100 tequilas to choose from. i own a business in park slope and never mention it. i am going to start a non sanctioned brownstoner boycott of this place if you don't stop.

Posted by: mule at July 2, 2008 11:35 PM in response to Streetlevel: A New Awning for Foragers

3.30 your comment makes no sense. whether there visually interesting is up to debate.i like the nets but doesnt mean atlantic yards should be built. do you not expect most people to slow down to look at something thats never been there before. do you know the concept of rubbernecking. if only 1 car slows down everybody behind does too. how many cars do you think travel the BQE in both directions?? if a human sacrifice was taking place on the side of the BQE people would slow down too, would that be ok too(maybe if MOMA called it art). my point is that anything thats on the side of the road thats not usually there causes rubbernecking which slows down traffic to a crawl.

Posted by: mule at June 27, 2008 3:45 PM in response to Right This Way to The Waterfalls

sorry oh 2:34.. most people like them says who??? like most people like ballet?? the price tag is not minimal if you add in the costs of pollution and gas. whos paying for that. did i mention they suck as did many posters said yesterday. just because someone tells you its art doesnt make it good. please join TDCNW now.

Posted by: mule at June 27, 2008 3:20 PM in response to Right This Way to The Waterfalls

i posted as adam before. i saw somebody stop their car on the highway yesterday to look at it. did i mention the display is crap. this is public art at its worst. how come when there is a subsidy for ratner everyone crys but i have to pay for this pile of junk and say its cultural?? alright atlantic yard detractors and those who are against brooklyn bridge park whos going to help me get rid of this thing thats ruining traffic up and down brooklyn. traffic is backed up all the way to the verrazano today. anybody experiencing noticebly increased traffic??

forget DDDB im starting TDCWN (take down crap waterfall now)

Posted by: mule at June 27, 2008 1:30 PM in response to Right This Way to The Waterfalls