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
4:48 PM, you win the thread.
Nice one 4:48! Don’cha wish it had been a bit more challenging though?
No, for playing YOU, 5:01. Hee hee.
You served 39 years for playing DICE??
dice games have been illegal since forever. i should know, because i was arrested in one in south philly in 1962. i served 39 years in state prison and now i’m out. i see a psychiatrist once a month and a psychotherapist once a week. i also take three types of psychotropic medication. but i no longer gamble, becuase it is against the law. thank you.
4:11 try
NY State Penal Law 240.35
So you wanna be Ballers? Shot Callers? Union Hallers?
sidewalk dice games became illegal when?
3:13 you could not be more wrong –
Park Slope is full of REAL liberals – thats why they rage about white people going to an establishment that apparently (I cant confirm) does as much as it can to be a good neighbor – and calls the patrons Frat/MBA-types (even when by every indication there not)
and
being real liberals is why they rant about noisy kids and yuppie parents and over-priced PRIVATE schools(2:39pm)
and
this is why not only will they not complain but actually see nothing wrong with non-whites involved with sidewalk dice games and public drinking (10:51am) – even though both are illegal.
If that patronizing obnoxious hypocritical double standard doesn’t make these Park Slopers REAL liberals I dont know what would.