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
My old neighborhood of sunset park and this place is old school.if you’ve never been in the rainbow cafe you can’t make negative comment’s.
“If there were excess development rights, I’d say bulldoze ’em.”
Do not get me started here. Tear them down, build them up.
Resue anyone? Perhaps not best to butt heads with ol’ Pole today, I have work I actually need to get done.
It’s a featured building in SSP, let it be rehabed into ANYTHING usable (commercial, residential, mixed use, etc.), but do anything but tear it down. Christ!
I am sure it comes with lounge lizards and plenty of other guests you may care not to meet.
11217 and DIBS- I see polemicist is still trying to sound like an architectural maven. wasn’t he soundly trounced on lintels once before?
“two simple buildings built on the cheap a century ago.”
As if he knows anything about old construction and buildings.
Lounge lizards too???
It’s a pretty cheesy catering hall with a 50’s style bar that comes with barflies. Great space if it had a new look inside.
Hey Dave,
Don’t worry. I told Polemicist last night. Go check out the thread from yesterday on the “Resale at the Washington”
Talk about stupid. He thought housing prices dropped 15% in May.
It was .9%, but close enough, right?
I guess I’ve been told!
Actually, I think it’s a pretty plain building.
The only thing remotely interesting about it are the concrete cast lintels that have a bit more style than the typical slabs. The signage is of course classic, but that’s no biggie either.
The cornice is similar to several hundred thousand other buildings in New York City. The storefront wall is hideous, almost worse than the aluminum awnings.
These were two simple buildings built on the cheap a century ago. Nothing special. If there were excess development rights, I’d say bulldoze ’em.