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 .
My only hope is that after being reprimanded for peddling his or her prescription drugs in front of this much anticipated cake and beer shop, one of the inhabitants of the 8th Avenue Armory tosses a garbage can through the front window.
Those of you that have problems with the “drunken Irish” and “Irish alkies” that frequent Farrell’s should go back to the neighborhoods in which you were born; quite frankly, we don’t want you here.
You yuppie/hipster assholes can all go back to the suburb where your pitiful existence began. You cant afford to live in the city, so you have to leech into brooklyn, and pretend to be working class.. all the while sipping your fucking chai latte and destroying the authenticity of neighborhoods like WT. Fuck Pab’s Blue Ribbon beer and fuck you. Your damn right your not wanted in the neighborhood or farrells, so go hangout in williamsburg or alphabet city, or wherever the fuck you choose to spread your holier-than-thou bullshit. As long as I live in the neighborhood, I will do my best to make you and your future asshole kids feel unwelcome.
Now there will be a bar that wont mind you bringing in your stroller, dog, as well as your purchased items from one of the 15 daily stoop sales on 16th! Groundbreaking stuff indeed…
I love how many people on this board start their Farrell’s bashing with “i’ve never gone in because i don’t think i’d be welcome, but…”. Grow a sack and walk in and find out that nobody cares that you’re there because nobody cares about you, you’re not that important. Also, I would love to see how welcome you people make Sweat and his crew feel. (Guarantee not a one of them knows who Sweat is).
All of you people who are pricing out the people who built a great neighborhood are probably creaming in your pants because now the businesses are starting to get priced out too.
Farrell’s has changed from what it was but it’s still the best tap beer in NY and a great bar. Yuppies will never appreciate the place, and those who do will appreciate it for the wrong reasons.
The fact that so many people are excited about some shit shop opening that serves beer is pretty pathetic. Oh yeah, and to the lazy fuck who can’t walk to 5th avenue to go to a bar, KYS.
this idea sucks, all you yuppies who are not from here need to go back to where you came from. we don’t want you in our neighborhood. but i guess you are here because where you came from didn’t want you either.
how about you walk into Farrell’s and say what you say on this board to actual people? I doubt any of you would do it
It will be nice to have a non-sports themed bar, WT is covered in that department.
Yeah, I used to live in the LES, which is why I’m excited to hear about this place. Now two things I love about LES are coming to PPW. Yay!
I never go to Farrell’s myself. But the people who do are the people who’ve lived in Windsor Terrace their whole lives, as have their parents and grandparents. The people who hate Farrell’s are the ones who just moved to Brooklyn 5 years ago or less. The new people wanting Farrell’s gone qualifies as invading in my opinion.
Farrell’s is a true landmark of the neighborhood. Manhattan wouldn’t be Manhattan without the Empire State Building. Coney Island wouldn’t be Coney Island without the Cyclone. Windsor Terrace wouldn’t be Windsor Terrace without Farrell’s.
here’s the thing. I am fine with farrell’s, even though I’d never go there, since I would feel pretty unwelcome. Hell, I cross to the other side of the street when there’s a big crowd out.
And I witnessed one of the worst, bloodiest fights I’ve ever seen at Rhythm & Booze. So I don’t go there anymore. I’m glad to see a new place in the hood opening up, one where I’d feel more welcome and safe.
I’m not knockin those other places, I’m just saying there’s room for everybody.
I’m worried though that the crowd from Farrell’s won’t like very much the crowd from cakey place, and they’ll make it known.
You all are the reason WT is changed, you whine about a place like Farrells but when you get robbed or your house burns you need
the very civil servants you put down. Too bad there isn’t an open season on yuppie web bloggers and granola eaters, I’d have my limit. The neighborhood has changed, not for the better because of you weasels.