Cherry Tree bought the lease to Mule (coffee house next door

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From Brownstoner
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/04/streetlevel_che_1.php

The owners of 4th Avenue's Cherry Tree bar are expanding their reach—right next door. The pub's proprietors took over the lease of Mule, the coffee shop they share a wall with. The lights have been out at Mule for about a month now, and one of Cherry Tree's owners told us they're hoping to reopen the popular java spot in a few weeks. Mule's likely to be reincarnated with later hours at first, and it'll probably have coffee and beer on offer. The Cherry Tree owner said he and his partners need to learn more about the coffee-hawking game before bringing Mule back full-force, with regular daytime hours. Mule was widely heralded as a business that defined the changing face of 4th Avenue from a seedy truck route to a rapidly gentrifying stretch.

I'm excited. I never cared for Mule, because Gorilla has better coffee and is only a few blocks away. But I love Cherry Tree and this might morph into a lounge-like extension to the pub.

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Thanks for passing on this update, M. Coffee-quality notwithstanding, Mule had the nicest space of any coffee place in the area, with natural light on two sides and that recently-landscaped, tree-bedecked back patio. It would be a loss if it just became regular old, loud Cherry Tree.