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 .
I wonder how welcome the Farrell’s regulars — you know, all those cops, firemen, plumbers, laborers and old men who play the ponies during the day — will be made to feel at Tiny’s Giant Sandwich & Cake Shop.
there’s nothing wrong with farrell’s. hah, kidding. i’ve been in a million “old man, working class” type bars in my day… some have been less friendly than farrell’s, but not many. MY whole problem with the place is the fact that it isn’t the same old farrell’s it used to be. “back in the day” (disclaimer: according to my neighbor; a lifelong WTer) farrell’s was actually a bit of a pinko bar! albeit, a rather mysoganistic pinko bar. but nowadays, under the new ownership (yeah that’s right, the current owners bought it from the original owner) farrell’s caters specifically to basically white-ish guys who are either authentically working guys or posing as such. btw, anyone hear what went down shortly after 9/11 between farrell’s and the (arab owned) deli across the street? well, you can probably imagine…
anyways, this new place will be great i think. tiny’s has really good sandwiches and if this place will have a better beer selection than farrell’s, i’m all over it!
You people are hilarious.
10:35 sounds quite a bit more grown up than you do, 10:44. At least they seem to be able to see the world for what it really is instead of pretending we live in a bubble.
thats great more options my stomach gets bored easily.
we wish sunset park was considered as well.
we really need these type of options
can you guys help spread the word so that future entrepreneurs might consider Sunset Park for such ventures.
love,
mr glutton
Your self consciousness might be feeding your perceptions. Most families have a gay family or friend regardless of race, religion, other classification… Yes – even presumbably lower middle class Irish, Italian, Polish….families are known to love andkeep their gay relatives. Grow Up.
as a homosexual and liberal, no i don’t particualrly enjoy living in neighborhoods or going to bars where MANY of the kinds of people who you allude to, don’t view the way i was born as a viable option.
i don’t see anything wrong with that. i grew up and was raised in a suburban area that was very unwelcoming to people who were in any way, shape or form different from themselves and now it’s nice to live in a city where there are less of those people.
i’ve found some establishments and people on the street in windsor terrace more unwelcoming than some other neighborhoods in nyc. nothing wrong with pointing that out.
oe – it’s pure snobbbery and the ignorance based inability to fathom how one might develop a different lifestyle or perspective from your own.
Farrel’s used to be a new bar.
lets not be so xenophobic.
also Jackie’s is more of a sad drinking establishment. Farrel’s has people who arnt sad and depressed looking.