Closing Bell: Freddy's Bar - Heads Roll in Survival Fight
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…
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
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.
They’re just fucking around, material possessions are not the point. Having madcap adventures is.
Brilliant! this should end well…..
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.”
Anyone know how much (if anything) Freddy’s got as its “just compensation” for the taking?
“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.
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*
“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?
“Never ever taken a woman home from a bar. A milestone I hope to achieve someday:).”
always go to their place – lots of crazies.