Brooklyn Bar-Baby Debate Goes National
A debate that will be familiar to any resident of Brownstone Brooklyn—whether or not children should be allowed in bars—was elevated to the national spotlight when CNN picked up an old thread on Brooklynian and a more recent story in The Courier this week about how the Windsor Terrace bar Double Windsor had banned babies…
A debate that will be familiar to any resident of Brownstone Brooklyn—whether or not children should be allowed in bars—was elevated to the national spotlight when CNN picked up an old thread on Brooklynian and a more recent story in The Courier this week about how the Windsor Terrace bar Double Windsor had banned babies after 5 p.m. We are Windsor Terrace and Park Slope parents like everyone else, one of the owners told The Courier. But the bottom like is that this is a bar, and most of our customers feel like it’s not an appropriate place for kids after hours. A single father profiled in the CNN story, however, contends that a little common sense and moderation are all that are needed for peace and harmony: “I’m not going to keep her out past 7 p.m. When the bar starts filling up, that’s when we head home…I’m not knocking back double vodkas while my daughter is stumbling around.” We’ll confess to having taken our school-age kids to Radegast for an occasional late-afternoon beer on the weekends, though like the guy in the CNN story, we’ve certainly never stayed past 7 p.m. and it’s always been combined with buying the kids dinner.
Brooklyn Brewhaha: Babies in Bars [CNN]
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Actually, not exactly like my father reading it again, my father voted for Kerry and doesn’t say “freaking,” but My God, I really think that bringing a kid to a bar is ridiculous and I would not go to that bar and if I owned the bar, I would throw the guy out. With the kid, although the kid probably has more sense then him. That is also why I don’t like Park Slope, because this is even a point of discussion.
i think that may have happened to me btw :-0
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parents should be worried about baby snatchers and baby switchers.. if it’s a dimly lit bar, i could totally picturing a couple coming in with a baby they dont like anymore and switching it with one they like better!
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I am in total agreement with the person Biff quoted. I love it, funny, sounds like my father, who has a brain.
Another blown out of proportion story. I’ve only seen kids/babies in a bar less than 1% of the times I’ve gone. The kids were behaved, and nobody adjusted their behavior (cursing, loud talking). That said, I do question the parents’ judgement in bringing their kid to a bar where there was cursing/loud talking, plus they (parent) all were drinking, and w/o their spouse….bring your effing designated caregiver.
“most of our customers feel like it’s not an appropriate place for kids after hours”
What about you? How do YOU feel?
Bars and babies are no-no’s. What’s to discuss?
***Bid half off peak comps***
Its kind of up to the individual bar to set the rules as far as I’m concerned. I take no issue with any bar’s stand one way or the other. I don’t see any real public safety issues here.
If a bar doesn’t have a rule and customers leave because of it, then that is the consequence of not having a rule. On the other hand bars and restaurants that serve food are dying for 2pm-6pm business, so I doubt many will kick out the stroller crowd any time soon.
Anything that brings more large breasts to the mix is fine with me.
Yup, pervert in the house.
Matt Gross’s worst offence is that he’s a little odd looking. As long as baby not in there at 9PM and he’s not falling down drunk not sure what all the hoopla is about. Taverns are meeting places. These 20 something’s who are mad need to get a grip.
“But the overwhelming clientele that spends quite a lot of money here can’t deal with babies.”
“I long for adult contact. … I don’t want to be excluded from the adult world.”
Both quotes make me sad.