Interesting Viewpoint On The Subject Of C.B.6 And Liquor Licenses

A reader asked: "Could Carroll Gardens have won?

Well, maybe. Neighbors who have been opposed to Mr. Mamary's proposed Oyster bar on Hoyt Street sure seem to have soured the restaurant "moguls" on the neighborhood.

Read today's article in the New York Times entitled " Restless Pioneers, Seeding Brooklyn"

That's just fine by me. Now, can we have some useful retail stores back on Smith?

From today's Times article:

The ungrateful “they” are Brooklynites who’ve come to see Harding-Mamary creations as a chain, where you can get it venti in a ramekin with crème fraîche or slushed with guava and salt on the rim. The ones with pitchforks are residents near Union and Hoyt Streets, one block off Smith, trying to stop Mr. Mamary’s Black Mountain Wine House from adding an oyster bar.

Mr. Harding, 46, cooks at Black Mountain, but is not a partner. In a reflection of local ill will, he sometimes wears a white coat reading: “I Am Not the Owner.”.............

But from Brooklyn Heights to Smith Street to Park Slope, where rents have soared and streets are growing more crowded, resentment is keen.

The oyster bar struggle involves decades-old zoning and dueling predictions over whether it will attract a few discreet slurpers of Sancerre and Wellfleets or hordes of smoking and retching yobbos to a quiet street.

Delays and legal fees have cost $20,000. Community board hearings have been nasty. And the partners have been soured by rants on Carroll Gardens blogs, particularly one calling Jim Mamary an “opportunistic idiot” and “slob” who “ruined my neighborhood.”

Even if he gets a liquor license, Mr. Mamary said, “I’d never open another place on Hoyt.”

Mr. Harding, more blunt about the complaints, wants to see if he can seek revenge by keeping chickens in the wine bar’s yard. “We’ll give eggs to orphans,” he said. “We’ll have a petting zoo.”

More conciliatory, Mr. Mamary waves his hand as if to calm down his friend and cautions, “I’m not sure we want to say that.”

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Related reading:


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