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April 5, 2006
RATNER'S PLAN GETS BEER JEER
The NY Post seems to be singing Freddy's swan song just as the beer boycott has begun:
The venerable Freddy's Bar and Backroom, which will lose its nearly 100-year-old quarters to make way for the new home of the New Jersey Nets, on Monday traded its once-local-favorite Brooklyn Lager spigot for Labatt's Blue, a popular Canadian beer.
"It was time," said owner Donald O'Finn, who poured his last two gallons of Brooklyn Brewery suds down the drain. It was done in protest of the local beer maker's support of developer Bruce Ratner's planned construction of a basketball arena and skyscrapers in Prospect Heights.
"People expected me to join [the boycott] right away, but I had four barrels in the basement. I'm a small business."
Posted by lumi at April 5, 2006 8:32 AM