Neighbors to Union Hall: Shut Up!
Since opening a little over a year ago, Union Hall’s formula—booze, bands, and bocce—has been a resounding success, drawing crowds of revelers to the North Slope. Some of the bar’s neighbors wish it were a tad less successful, though. In May a group of Union Street residents sent a letter to a bunch of officials…
Since opening a little over a year ago, Union Hall’s formula—booze, bands, and bocce—has been a resounding success, drawing crowds of revelers to the North Slope. Some of the bar’s neighbors wish it were a tad less successful, though. In May a group of Union Street residents sent a letter to a bunch of officials (including Mayor Bloomberg, BP Markowitz, State Senator Montgomery and Councilmember de Blasio) regarding the tremendous increase in noise and nuisance that’d befallen their street since Union Hall opened. The letter, which was signed by 76 people, claims the quality of life for the immediate neighbors has been drastically altered, leading to sleep loss, stress, anxiety and serious health issues. The signatories said the bar’s soundproofing measures were inadequate and that its patrons have terrorized Union Street by shouting, fighting, throwing bottles, urinating and passing out on the sidewalk. Jon Crow, one of the residents leading the charge against the bar, showed up at Wednesday night’s Community Board 6 meeting to expound on Union Hall’s alleged ne’er-do-well ways and to ask for the board’s help in bringing peace and quiet back to Union Street. From the outside, it may look like a library, but it’s not, said Crow, who intends to lobby the state liquor board so that Union Hall’s booze license isn’t renewed this spring.
The Skinny on Union Hall [Brownstoner] GMAP
Voodoo is the absolute worst. How come no petition against that? I can’t stand that old threatening guy who’s always sittiing outside, and the throngs of dudes who walk back and forth between the bar and the doorways halfway down the block to smoke their trees.
jon crow laws…
haha.
and union hall isnt as meatheadish as 200 5th, Voodoo or Loki.
DANNG!!!!!!!
I believe the point here is that the benefit that Union Hall provides to the community FAR outweighs the negative.
Anyone who doesn’t realize that is a fool.
You all do realize how utterly pathetic a 76 person petition is, RIGHT??
76 is the same as 5.
Yes, all good music venues. This and SouthPaw should be added to that list.
Although many of the ones you mention have a much larger capacity and don’t really present the same sortof of cutting edge stuff that Union Hall does.
seriously-
Old grumpy people watch your back, there is a change afoot in the North Slope, and we want you out of our neighborhood.
guest at October 12, 2007 11:24 AM:
Okay: Bowery Ballroom, Mercury Lounge, Luna Lounge, Northsix (now Music Hall of Williamsburg), Southpaw; hell even the much derided Webster Hall is better. I trust you will note that none of the joints I mention have played, or are likely to play, host to Barry Manilow.
I’d like to see the 311/911 logs of these neighbors complaints. Is there a long paper trail, or just ‘hearsay’? not saying there aren’t problems, I don’t live there. Just curious what sort of documented ammo these complaintees have.
Oh and:
“i notice you didn’t list any of the “dozen infinitely better venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn?” but only criticized this one.”
Where to begin? Bowery Ballroom, Mercury Lounge, Williamsburg Hall Of whatever it’s called – formerly North 6, Warsaw, Luna Lounge, Cakeshop, Pianos, Hiro, etc. etc.
There’s a lot of making fun of Bay Ridge and frat boys is going on supposedly in the interest of maintaining quality of life.
I for one am tired of all the middle-aged, slobby, passive agressive breeder blowhards with bad hair, 2nd-tier-school liberal arts degrees, and bags full full of Food Coop beans who think that park slope should stay like it was through the 70s and 80s so they can hide from the types of people who terrorized them through high school.
I’ve seen a fight at Union Hall. It was a bunch of goth girls with Irish accents beating the crap out of skinny guy with a scraggly beard. If this is what passes for fratboys and meatheads these days, then the world has it pretty easy.
Enough of your Jon Crow laws already.
“When the crowds leave between midnight and 4 in the morning, the block turns into mardi gras.”
LOL. God, you’re an idiot. If the Develop Don’t Destroy People didn’t learn from their mistakes that making ridiculous and outlandish comments only defeats your cause further, you should take a hint.
If this is a residential block as you say, then I sure hope you are also trying to put the Food Co-op, Bicycle Shope, Brown Harris Stevens and Tastidelight out of business as well.
I GUARANTEE you that for your measly 75 signatures againist Union Hall, there are HUNDREDS of people supporting it.
I am one of them, and as a major player in the Music Industry plan to make sure that crazies like you get put in your place.