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April 20, 2010
Last call for Brooklyn's Freddy's Bar as it bows to Atlantic Yards
NY Daily News
by Erin Durkin
Call off the sheriff.
Atlantic Yards holdout Freddy's Bar, facing eviction to make way for developer Bruce Ratner's megaproject in Brooklyn, will shut its doors at the end of the month and reopen at a new location, its manager said Monday.
Patrons had vowed to chain themselves to the bar and force law enforcement to physically eject them, but now they say they'll go peacefully.
"I love this fight, but ... I'm sick of this sword of Damocles thing," manager Donald O'Finn said. "I want to get on with it."
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Additional coverage...
The Brooklyn Paper, Freddy’s Bar, eminent domain poster child, to close on April 30
The bar will serve its last tear-filled beer on April 30.
The announcement signals a much-less colorful conclusion for the beloved dive, which has spent the last few years as a jocular, though no less serious, foil to the developer. Through the seven-year Atlantic Yards saga, Freddy’s earned plenty of media coverage for a welter of stunts, including taking Brooklyn Lager off the menu after the Williamsburg-based brewery signed a deal with Ratner; decapitating effigies of eminent domain and banks with a guillotine covered in Pabst Blue Ribbon labels; and having barflies don oversized masks and give interviews as key “villains” like Ratner, Borough President Markowitz and Mayor Bloomberg.
...O’Finn added that “Freddy’s Next Bar” will continue to oppose Ratner’s mega-project.
“As far we’re concerned we’re not through — we’re just moving to another corner of the ring!” he said.
Grub Street, Freddy’s Bar Gives Up the Fight, Will Move to New Location
Amid a few parting shots at developer Bruce Ratner, O’Finn reveals that within two or three months, the doomed bar will hopefully open at a new address (still not locked down) on Fourth Avenue near Union Street.
Battle of Brooklyn via Kickstarter, Freddy’s
Yesterday it was announced that Freddy's Bar is moving. For the last few months the fighting Freddy's have been doing yeoman's work in bringing attention to the situation. While there were no shortage of people willing to chain themselves to the bar in order to save it, the responsibility of throwing all of the bartenders out of work was a bit much to bear. They struck a deal to save the bar by moving it to a new location.
Reason Hit & Run, Last Call at Freddy's Bar
Freddy’s, the great Brooklyn bar that has been fighting the good fight against New York’s eminent domain abuse in the Atlantic Yards case, will be closing its doors at the end of the month, with April 30th set as the last day of business.
...Bad news, but hardly shocking, given that Freddy’s, homeowner Daniel Goldstein, and the other heroic resisters were battling the combined forces of New York state, New York City, the Borough of Brooklyn, the Empire State Development Corporation, and politically-connected developer Bruce Ratner.
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill], The Day: Freddy’s Closes, Hot Bird Opens
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, Freddy’s Bar Moving to Park Slope’s 4th Avenue
Posted by eric at April 20, 2010 10:16 AM