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]
Photo from Babble.com
Speakeasy was doing the happy hour thing in the fall — I kept meaning to go.
I would need a xanax before going to the Third Street playground, so drinking there seems fine. I’ve been at birthday parties at the PS 11 playground with beer. (Sadly, Coors in cans… but perhaps the can thing is understandable. No one wants broken glass in a playground!)
happy hour is a good idea
The problem with the baby-friendly bar idea is that hardcore alcoholics (aka all night drinkers) pay the bar’s bills, not folks stopping in for two beers before bedtime.
Having a baby-friendly “happy hour,” on the other hand might be a good way for a slow bar to pick up some afternoon business.
You can (and maybe do) drink in the playground. Just don’t be a adult male in playground alone. You need to have a kid escort you. Same as bars, kids need an adult escort.
If babies are allowed in Park Slope bars, then I should be allowed to drink in the 3rd Street playground.
Fair is fair.
Posted by: DitmasSnark at March 3, 2010 11:23 AM
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA – now that’s funny…and oddly on point?!
If babies are allowed in Park Slope bars, then I should be allowed to drink in the 3rd Street playground.
Fair is fair.
if someone opened a baby friendly bar on 5th avenue it would kill. who’s down?
My parents never brought me to bars. I wish they had. My father used to take me to a neighborhood diner when my mother was out where we ate terrible overcooked hamburgers. I would have loved a cold beer to wash the greasy burnt grill taste away.
At the age of six or seven it didn’t cross my mind.