Prospect Heights Watering Hole Getting the Boot
A neighborhood fixture on Flatbush is about to serve its last pint, according to a thread on Brooklynian. Mooney’s Pub has been served with an eviction notice because of a dispute with its landlord about a rent hike. Many people commenting on the thread are mourning the impending loss of the bar, and there’s plenty…
A neighborhood fixture on Flatbush is about to serve its last pint, according to a thread on Brooklynian. Mooney’s Pub has been served with an eviction notice because of a dispute with its landlord about a rent hike. Many people commenting on the thread are mourning the impending loss of the bar, and there’s plenty of speculation that a chain like Starbucks is going to take its place:
I’m sure they’re hoping that American Apparel’s good buddies at Starbucks or some such place will take over the location. It makes me nauseous. For me, this is a tremendous loss of a lovely neighborhood gathering spot. It may not be the hippest or the most glamorous, but it’s such a great place to meet and talk to your neighbors – people from all backgrounds gather there and actually interact with one another. I have met some wonderful people there who I now count amongst closest friends.
Aside from the American Apparel and a couple of bank branches, though, this stretch of Flatbush has hardly become a haven for chains. Think a national retailer’s really gonna be sweet on this spot?
Mooney’s Evicted! Same evil landlord as Royal Video [Brooklynian] GMAP
7000 a month is still quite reasonable. especially for a busy strip like flatbush.
places on 7th ave command upwards of 15K a month. same thing with 5th avenue.
i believe even more than that in some locations.
he’s a fool not to renew for 7K.
You must not run your own business 10:25. The free market system is about negotiation. There is a cost to finding a new tenant that the owner has to consider when looking at that offer of $6000 a month.
I’m sorry if that’s been your experience at Mooney’s Anon 10:15, but I’ve definitely had a much better one.
Almost every Saturday afternoon since 1996 my football team has stomped into Mooney’s dirty, gnarled and very often muddy – and been treated like family. While a few of us are of the paler skinned variety, most of us are not, and after playing football in Prospect Park in January for four hours, we are some the ugliest, scariest people this side of Jersey. We were strangers the first time we went there, and we have always been treated hospitably, even when wearing cleats and soaking wet.
Just because your husband is a bigot (Irish Donkeys?) doesn’t mean everyone else is.
Not that I’m ever happy to see a bar close, but when did a landlord’s decision to raise the rent — on a bar, bookstore, or whatever — become subject to negotiation?
Either the bar raises its prices to pay the rent, or it goes away. Capitalism ain’t so bad.
um … does it matter that the mooney’s owners have kept the place insular and isolated lo these many years by being exclusive? exlusive, you say, how can that be? well, for starters, if they don’t know you, be prepared for the old west saloon staredown; you’re not good enough if you’re a STRANGER. god forbid you’re a stranger of a color darker than beige.
some community service. my husband (white, and born and raised in PH) calls them “irish donkeys who consider themselves a cut above everyone else”.
me, i call it a worthless old man dive bar, and if that’s what ya’ll call something that’s important for the community, well, good on ya’, and goodbye.
It’s important to note, as the original poster on the site said,
“Mr. Mooney received an eviction notice on October 30th, giving him 30 days to get out. Apparently, the landlord raised the rent from $4000 to $7000 and Mooney countered with an offer of $6000. The response he received was the eviction notice. ”
I think their counter offer was very reasonable. The response by the owners is not.
Eviction? It’s obvious the building owners just want them out so they can make a profit renting the space to someone else.
Here’s a crazy idea: Go to Mooney’s. Tell him you want him to stay. Say you’ll gladly pay an extra buck a pint if he’ll pay the market rent and make a deal with his landlord. Then, actually return to Mooney’s and pay the extra buck a pint.
Wow. My football team has been going to Mooneys after our games since the mid nineties. There have been a lot of changes to this stretch of Flatbush over the last few years, but I’m sure they could afford the new rent if they just raised the price of each pint a little bit. It would be a unfortunate for them to have to close down. They need to bite the bullet and pass the costs on to their customers if that’s what they have to do to survive.
Wasn’t Mooney’s once on 7th Ave and moved to Flatbush in the mid-80s (another rent issue). Anybody remember the cross-street where it was?