on brnstner: Sunset Park's Rainbow Cafe Building Officially

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Subject: on brnstner: Sunset Park's Rainbow Cafe Building Officially

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/07/sunset_parks_ra.php

As Best View in Brooklyn reported at the beginning of June, the Rainbow Cafe in Sunset Park closed after the passing of its owner. A reader now tells us the building is on the market, noting, that "it will be interesting to see who takes it over and if it will maintain its bar/restaurant status....Perhaps whoever takes it over will take the first jab at the Park-Slopification of Sunset Park." The building, on 39th Street and 5th Avenue, is listed for $3,250,000. The old cafe space accounts for almost 4,000 square feet of the property, and, as the listing notes, it's a "Sunset Park Neighborhood Landmark."

Major bummer. I hope whomever is the final buyer will rehab and reuse the place. Definite part of the fabric that makes SSP such a interesting neighborhood. If some idiot buys it for development rights and tears it down, there's gonna be hell to pay :evil: