"Your Kind of People" Aren't Welcome Here
This past Friday night, a group of Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill residents headed out for some drinks, but their usual favorite watering holes (the bar called “Bar” at 280 Smith and Zombie Hut at 273 Smith) weren’t an option: “Barbar smelled funny, and Z-hut was too crowded,” reported the reader. Instead, the group decided to check…
This past Friday night, a group of Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill residents headed out for some drinks, but their usual favorite watering holes (the bar called “Bar” at 280 Smith and Zombie Hut at 273 Smith) weren’t an option: “Barbar smelled funny, and Z-hut was too crowded,” reported the reader. Instead, the group decided to check out Quench, the lounge on the corner of Sackett and Smith. They ordered cocktails, but then learned that the bar is cash-only. One member of the party left the bar to grab some money from a nearby ATM. That’s when the trouble began…
“The owner and the bouncer got all huffy thinking that we weren’t going to pay. Then, it turned out that the drinks were terrible/un-drinkable, but they wouldn’t give a refund or remake the drinks and told us they didn’t want our kind of people there anyway! Now, they could have meant ‘the kind of people who would say something about a disgusting drink,’ but looking around, the other patrons were 100% guys who shave their arms and girls with fake tans, so we left the paid-for drinks on the bar and went home.”
Damn, girl! We hate to besmirch a bar that has bestowed us many a cheap happy hour—we’ve never been given any flak while sipping their refreshing $5 mojitos. (Granted, we have been hit on by men who were old enough to be our dads while we were ordering said cocktails, but that’s a small price to pay for such potent $5 drinks!) That said, this anonymous tip doesn’t seem to be an isolated occurrence—we found a couple more haters with similar complaints on Citysearch. Has anyone else had problems at Quench?
Is a yuppie somebody who grew up in a blue collar household in the midwest but who worked his/her ass off to get a college education (waiting tables to pay for his/her own tuition), moved to NYC, felt at home in a great hood like Carroll Gardens (even though his/her one bedroom does indeed cost 2k/month), likes to drink at Brooklyn Social and gets his/her hair cut at Chic Elegance but is unfortunate enough as to have a good job and not dress like an extra from an Eminem video? well call me a yuppie then . . .
being a hood resident for 28 yrs the only people i find responsible for allowing these dispicable yups who now occupy space is no other than the old italians who took the money and ran..they took the $1000 a month rent in the early 90s and laughed all the way to the bank while you filth yups had no furniture and bought cold cuts by the slice…no class. – may i have 3 slices of ham 2 slices of cheese and a kaiser roll… yeah right after you eat my ass yup scum…after all is said and done your still renting now for 2k a month and the old paisans are enjoying their 10 acre estate in south jersey that was purchased by you mr. yup with your rent money from your fucking trust fund …suckers! oh yes and for all those fellow italians who did stay the neighborhood may not be the same but the neighborhood will always be part of you …the blockparties,the johnny pump,bbqs,50 people trooping to the beach and most of all being encouraged to stay on the corner. and although they may try to take this neighborhood theyll never know what it truly means to live under the reputation that weve built for this neighborhood. the same reason they moved to carroll gardens..20 years ago it was the only section of brooklyn where you can walk around at 2 am. an when us italians are gone youll see how they beg for us back when we are no longer here and they fall prey to the surrounding neighborhood gentlemen. (model citizens) dont worry yups there are a few nice bsmt apts for rent in south jersey im sure by now theyre all ready awaiting your arrival and started packing for florida. as for me im outta this neighborhood you yups could keep it ! the boys and i are moving to a disclosed location … no yups allowed…another thing … i read something in a recent blog about the way we look at people … no one ever looked at the yups crooked… you all came here with your arrogance and looked on us condescending because of our blue collar lifestlye as if we were local yocals from some backwards farm. although were rough around the edges make no mistake that our level of education is same as yours..you just never knew what it was like to have to fight everyday for you starter jacket,hat,jansport and sneakers. while you were playing ice hockey on a pond in green bay wisc i was using my hockey stick to fight off some douchebag trying to rob me… but im sure you knew that about caroll gardens..
being a hood resident for 28 yrs the only people i find responsible for allowing these dispicable yups who now occupy space is no other than the old italians who took the money and ran..they took the $1000 a month rent in the early 90s and laughed all the way to the bank while you filth yups had no furniture and bought cold cuts by the slice…no class. – may i have 3 slices of ham 2 slices of cheese and a kaiser roll… yeah right after you eat my ass yup scum…after all is said and done your still renting now for 2k a month and the old paisans are enjoying their 10 acre estate in south jersey that was purchased by you mr. yup with your rent money from your fucking trust fund …suckers! oh yes and for all those fellow italians who did stay the neighborhood may not be the same but the neighborhood will always be part of you …the blockparties,the johnny pump,bbqs,50 people trooping to the beach and most of all being encouraged to stay on the corner. and although they may try to take this neighborhood theyll never know what it truly means to live under the reputation that weve built for this neighborhood. the same reason they moved to carroll gardens..20 years ago it was the only section of brooklyn where you can walk around at 2 am. an when us italians are gone youll see how they beg for us back when we are no longer here and they fall prey to the surrounding neighborhood gentlemen. (model citizens) dont worry yups there are a few nice bsmt apts for rent in south jersey im sure by now theyre all ready awaiting your arrival and started packing for florida. as for me im outta this neighborhood you yups could keep it ! the boys and i are moving to a disclosed location … no yups allowed…another thing … i read something in a recent blog about the way we look at people … no one ever looked at the yups crooked… you all came here with your arrogance and looked on us condescending because of our blue collar lifestlye as if we were local yocals from some backwards farm. although were rough around the edges make no mistake that our level of education is same as yours..you just never knew what it was like to have to fight everyday for you starter jacket,hat,jansport and sneakers. while you were playing ice hockey on a pond in green bay wisc i was using my hockey stick to fight off some douchebag trying to rob me… but im sure you knew that about caroll gardens..
Hey Gandhi (5:10).. why dont you keep walkin?.. maybe we’re having fun, maybe we’re blowing off steam on issues we are all thinking about. no one has mentioned threats (except for pissing on doorknobs) until you got up here, and now you’re calling everyone “retarded, childish,and ignorant”?.You’re taking on both sides. It reminds me of a story, someone i know was walking by Angry Wade’s on the other side of the street one night, they saw a fight between 2 groups of people outside the bar (as is normal at that dump), they stoped to stare, and when the fighters saw them staring, they callled out “what are you lookin at”? and they said “uh, a fight”?, so both sides stopped fighting and went across the street and collectively stomped both of them, if you dont want to be involved, mind your own busiiness…you’re just gonna direct anger towards yourself….this is the longest set of postings since stroller mafia wars…maybe some of us are having fun…
don’t tell me I won’t fight in person. I’ll take on the old school AND the new school.
You people are all seriously retarded. Each one of you needs to get a life. None of you are better than the rest, you’re all exactly the same — childish, prejudice and ignorant.
What’s the point in arguing over this and telling each other off for such stupid reasons? You don’t know each other and you wouldn’t be fighting with each other in person (if you were, there’d be riots on the streets of Carroll Gardens between the old schoolers and the new inhabitants), so get a life and stop fighting on the internet. You’re not doing anyone any good at all.
Well, you’re hooked on drugs you’re buying from the locals, so who’s the smart one now “bad lieutenant”?
maybe if u’s “locals” were from somewhere else, you would be smarter and know how to spell (and could afford to stay). my advice is to get hooked on phonics and leave the fun drugs to us rich yuppies who now OWN (what used to be) your neighborhood. see ya’s. can’t wait for The Gap on Smith. Chinos, baby.
The neighborhood and its residence are fine….QUENCH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!