Sunset Park's Rainbow Cafe Building Officially For Sale
As Best View in Brooklyn reported at the beginning of June, the Rainbow Cafe in Sunset Park closed after the passing of its owner. A reader now tells us the building is on the market, noting, that “it will be interesting to see who takes it over and if it will maintain its bar/restaurant status….Perhaps…
As Best View in Brooklyn reported at the beginning of June, the Rainbow Cafe in Sunset Park closed after the passing of its owner. A reader now tells us the building is on the market, noting, that “it will be interesting to see who takes it over and if it will maintain its bar/restaurant status….Perhaps whoever takes it over will take the first jab at the Park-Slopification of Sunset Park.” The building, on 39th Street and 5th Avenue, is listed for $3,250,000. The old cafe space accounts for almost 4,000 square feet of the property, and, as the listing notes, it’s a “Sunset Park Neighborhood Landmark.”
Rainbow Cafe is Shuttered, For Now [Best View in Brooklyn]
3904 5th Avenue Listing [Loopnet] GMAP
bxgrl, that was so corny, it made me blush. My cheeks are as red as Judy Garland’s shoes. Somewhere, over the Rainbow (Cafe Bar and Grill)…
lala, I’ve been there!! Tim Burton could have a field day filming a surreal horror movie in that basement with all that old miscellaneous furniture. It gave me the heebie jeebies.
and here I was worried you were so wrapped up in, you would feel boxed in. A tsar-ry state of affairs.
In the vein of this thread…really? The old wooden escalators at Macy’s 34th Street were the cause of many deaths during the London subway fire of 1987?
And we need a few hundred words on the subtle distinction between the medium density housing which should replace this and the high density housing that P thinks should exist elswehere as featured randomly on many previous threads.
probably a no on the elevators, but the mattress show room on fulton street is one creepy place.
Do they still have the old wooden escalators at Macy’s 34th Street? Unfortunately those were the cause of many deaths during the London subway fire of 1987.
It wasn’t that bad. At least I had fun kibbitzing with the boxgirl.
Lala- believe me, there’s nothing like a great neighborhood bar in any case. With plenty of other places for the young,hip crowd to go, nothing wrong with the rainbow’s clientele growing but not catering to the hipsters. I’ve seen neighborhood bars change so much that what attracted the hipsters as “cool” in the first place disappeared under all the trendiness.
Ooh Biff- a rewrap. It must have been terrible for you 🙂
Dave, I wish! I was at home rearranging the paper in my sock drawers. It was long overdue. I prefer rye to Kaisers. (I also prefer Tsars to Kaisers, for that matter).