StreetLevel: Cherry Tree Bar v. NYC

This means war! Following its latest shuttering by the city over alleged health code violations, supporters of the Cherry Tree on 4th Avenue have covered the outside of the bar with posters claiming the city is out to get the popular night spot. This isn’t the first time the DOH has closed down the bar, between Bergen and St. Marks, and the posters affixed to the front of the business charge that the city is fabricating violations (see pic on jump). An open letter pasted to the front of the bar and addressed To Our Friends in the Fourth Avenue Community sarcastically runs down the latest infractions, including the following:

The Cherry Tree’s cook walking around the bar without gloves on. It may be that cooks are only required to wear gloves when preparing food, but how do we know the cook wasn’t thinking about preparing food at that very moment, which when you really think about it, is just the first step in preparing food? Because it’s likely the cook didn’t have gloves on in his imagined food preparation, this violation has not only been recorded in the Health Department’s annals, but has been reported to the New York City Department of Thoughtcrime.

The Cherry Tree has its latest day in court this week. GMAP