StreetLevel: Windsor Terrace Getting a Little LES Love
Is quiet Windsor Terrace going to become Brooklyn’s Lower East Side? No, but the owners of two LES shops are joining forces to open a bar and restaurant on 16th Street and Prospect Park West. One of the guys behind Ludlow Street’s bakery/record store/gig space Cake Shop is teaming with the owner of Rivington Street’s…
Is quiet Windsor Terrace going to become Brooklyn’s Lower East Side? No, but the owners of two LES shops are joining forces to open a bar and restaurant on 16th Street and Prospect Park West. One of the guys behind Ludlow Street’s bakery/record store/gig space Cake Shop is teaming with the owner of Rivington Street’s Tiny’s Giant Sandwich Shop to bring a beer bar and eatery to the old Universal Video space. The biz, name TBD, will probably open in the fall, according to Greg Curley, the Cake Shop co-owner behind the Windsor Terrace venture. Curley says he and his partner hope to have “low-key” performances but that it’s not going to be a full-blown venue like Cake Shop. What it will definitely be, we think, is some new-school competition for Farrell’s.
Photo of Universal Video by ickyinbrooklyn; Cake Shop pic by small_device; Tiny’s photo by roboppy .
Local Vet, your next beer is with me.
I have to comment to all the Liberal Yuppie Scum moving into out neighborhood. GET OUT ! NOONE WANT YOU HERE, NEVER DID AND NEVER WILL. As Far as Farrells? I grew up around that place and it is the only pleace in the area where as a woman i feel safee walking into the bar to have a cold beer after work, without worrying if i am going to be hit on by some Dyke. And If i was being followed or harrased i know I can walk into their as a safe haven. So please spare me the Irish Aklies and such other nonsense. Leave if you do not like it. And as far as Mcfadden Brother’s Post and other Veterans orginazations in the area, My father is a member.So take your non patriotic liberal ass and leave the country. People like you do not deserve the freedoms our men and women present and pass, fought and died for.
LovalVet – Don’t even give these thickheaded yups the time of day. They move into our neighborhoods and then expect the locals to change and adapt to their beliefs and lifestyles as if they are some gift to us. If anybody has a problem with their reception in the South Slope/Windsor Terrace, go back to where you came from. It’s as simple as that. You don’t contribute anything here. I grew up in this neighborhood, watching all the family owned businesses flourish on the patronage of the local residents, who became extended family. The kids went to Holy Name, PS 107 or PS 154 and all interacted, regardless of race or gender. Families knew each other. Look at the old yearbooks, the faces are enough to see that this wasn’t a “white republican” neighborhood. It was working class, honest, neighborly family type of neighborhood. This neighborhood was literally the type you’d see portrayed in the those old Hollywood movies. Why else do you think it’s been a backdrop for so many of them? Unfortunately, Brooklyn’s best kept secret fell prey to the money hungry vultures in real estate, and hard times fell upon many lifelong residents who decided to sell and leave. I can tell you this, anybody who has grown up here, would never want to abandon this neighborhood. I just hope this fad of living being cool to live in Brooklyn passes as fast as all your other stupid trends and you just leave. So McFadden Bros., Farrell’s, what have you, keep that flag up high with pride, salute with your right had, and middle finger up with your left, and tell these yuppie f#cks to go f#ck themselves.
As a resident of the block, I don’t appreciate the ugly line of American flags put up by the McFadden Bros. Bar (Oh yeah, it’s a “veteran’s club”) or their obnoxious pro-war Republican politics. The Farrell’s crowd are the same people–they don’t live in the neighborhood, at least anymore, as they all drive in to go to these bars, get drunk, and drive back to where ever they’ve “moved up” to. Farrells could have been a cool old-school bar if they didn’t serve beer in styrofoam cups and tear up the beautiful tiled floor to replace it with pergo.
I must respond to the above ignorant comments Posted by: guest at May 29, 2008 3:42 PM
Mr. Guest, you start off by stating that “as a resident of the block you don’t appreciate the ugly line of American flags”, but your profile states that your a home owner in Park Slope. As a veteran who has served my country proudly and an active member of the McFadden Bros. American Legion Post, I do not appreciate or understand what problem you or anyone could have with a line of American flags proudly displayed over the three small blocks of Prospect Park West. I am proud to be an American and proud to see American flags displayed. Could you explain what flag you would feel more comfortable displaying? Luckily your feelings are not shared by the true residents of the community. For your edification, McFadden Bros. American Legion Post #1380, the Boy Scouts and the local business owners of Prospect Park West provided these flags and continue to support and maintain them even though you don’t appreciate it. Regardless of your position on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or whether you are in favor of the current administration. American soldiers are risking and losing their lives everyday. Can you appreciate that?
BTW, the McFadden Bros. American Legion Post. is a private no-profit veterans organization whose members are not only veterans of one of the Armed Forces but specifically served their country during the period when this country was at war. Our building does contain a bar but it is not open to the public. Only member veterans and their guests are allowed to enter. Our members consist of Democrats, Republicans and Independents spanning several generations. Political commentary of all kinds can be heard. Remember no one loves war-especially the veteran. Our sole concern as an organization is to serve the needs of the veteran, the community and the Nation. If you really lived in the community you would be aware of the long (since 1947) history of the McFadden Bros. American Legion Post and the contributions we have made to the community over the years.
As far as your remarks about Farrell’s are concerned, I’ll take pleasure reading the continuing replies from Farrell’s fans telling you where to put it.
If anyone ever looked me in the eye and went “don’t hate…congratulate”, i’d probably hit them with the garbage can that was previously thrown through the window.
“guest at July 2, 2008 1:23 PM”- You hope someone throws a garbage can through the window of this restaurant/bar? Do you also hope someone gets hurt too?
Get help.
And some of you need to learn this little mantra my wife tells her 3rd grade class out in East New York: DON’T HATE… CONGRATULATE!
Really. Why all the hostility? Misdirected anger? They have Prozac for that.
I honestly don’t have a problem with people making a living and finding opportunity, but I read some real ignorant d!ckhead comments here. Shot in the arm? This part of the Slope/Windsor Terrace border has been nothing but hard-working blue collar families, cops, firemen and iron workers, who have known each other for generations and attended the local schools. Here come you hipster yups with critical comments, wanted to ruin the very fabric of what gave this neighborhood character, families. Your main concern in life has become of what’s the cool new spot that’s going to open?, where can I sit drinking coffee for hours on end? Where can I kill time because I have no f#cking social life? Honestly, how f#cking sad of a life do you live? I have seen this neighborhood become a joke, all at the hands of you morons who just want to live here because it’s the hip place to be. Here is a newsflash d!ckheads, your hated neighbors are probably paying 500 bucks for the same apartment for which you pay thousands. You contribute nothing here, but dirtier streets, dog sh!t allover the place and half of you look like you don’t f#cking bathe, desperately seeking love and approval from one another. So Farrells is unfriendly, and filled with a lot of people you don’t like, and guess what they f#cking can’t stand you either, but here’s another gem, when your drunk @ss can’t hold your liquor and come home in the am, to some stick-up kid from the other side of the park, those very same people are the ones you’ll be crying to for help. Just because they watch sports, cheer for the local team, talk about a day at work, kid’s going to school and getting married, as opposed to your mindless conversations of where the best Thai food is at or why you are so sad and depressed (I notice a lot of you f#ckers have some major insecurity issues). They are hard working people who have vices, just like all of us…..I don’t go there myself, but I know some of the bartenders and patrons since I was a kid, and would count on the fact that each one of them care for this neighborhood more than you care about your mothers. So show some respect for the regulars here, who wont abandon this place and leave it to jerkoffs like you. I hope your trust fund money runs out soon enough so you go back to where you came from and this neighborhood can go back to being a true neighborhood.
first of all on behalf of all the irish drunks at farrells we welcome the cake bar to the neighborhood! there is nothing worse than empty storefronts & giving people more options is good for business.
in response to “what went down on 9/11” to begin with the deli was owned by pakistanis not arabs at that time. but you wouldn’t know that because you didnt live here then. the true story is that a group of very angry people from i dont know where were harassing & causing enough trouble in the deli that one of farrells great bartenders noticed it from across the street. he then rounded up a few of us blue collared union guys to go over with him to put a stop to it. this i know because i was there i dont have to imagine. facts out weigh hearsay!
just wasted my time reading through a lot of the comments after googling for cake shop and all’s i can say is you people need to get a life. one new bar or restaurant isn’t going to ruin a neighborhood. if you don’t like it, don’t go there. this is america, “land of the free to capitalize”, if you want to live in a country where new businesses are regulated by the government then GO (please?). but if you’re as american as your bumper sticker claims, then you need to recognize these people are just trying to fulfill their potential as americans to capitalize… in a capitalistic society. how about this for a worthwhile dialogue: would socialism be an alternative worth exploring if it meant gentrification ceased to proliferate as rapidly as it currently does? hah!