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Cherry Tree Pub is closed — Brooklynian

Cherry Tree Pub is closed

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edited November -1 in Park Slope
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/01/streetlevel_che.php#more

Looks like the city/neighbors/4th Ave Pub have been out to get them (as rumor tells).
I've talked to the owners and bartenders there about it in the past and it really does seem unjust especially given the louder, nastier bars I've seen around.

Good luck Patrick.

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  • lanciano
    lanciano
    that's too bad. we were only there once, but thought it was a nice place. we loved the big chess board and the giant tree in the middle of the garden.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    So sad!

    That outdoor space was gold in the summer. :cry:
  • drabrabbit
    drabrabbit
    Ugg... good riddance. The scene was always a bunch of mid-thirties chasing their frat days. The space was lovely and some of the bartenders were fun but the crowd always killed my buzz.
  • mookie wilson
    mookie wilson
    never been there, but passed it many a time.

    as far as the city having it out for them: why would cherry tree be targeted for closure rather than the several other bars that have recently opened on 4th Ave?
  • daver
    daver

    Subject: Re: Cherry Tree Pub is closed

    Mamacita wrote: http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/01/streetlevel_che.php#more

    Looks like the city/neighbors/4th Ave Pub have been out to get them (as rumor tells).
    I've talked to the owners and bartenders there about it in the past and it really does seem unjust especially given the louder, nastier bars I've seen around.

    Good luck Patrick.
    It doesn't seem to be about being louder or nastier, and I haven't personally been in their kitchen. Interesting stuff on the DOB website, not anything that really matters though. The reports on the DOH website don't have the latest, but if you look at the history it looks like they have been getting the same violations for six months, perhaps they should have corrected them? It will be interesting when the latest inspection is posted up.
  • johnife
    johnife

    Subject: Re: Cherry Tree Pub is closed

    daver wrote: .....Interesting stuff on the DOB website, not anything that really matters though.
    Huh? Contravening zoning requirements by running a hostel in a single or two family home and by opening a bar/restaurant in a space defined as retail doesn't really matter?

    I guess I need to make clear that, even though I'm a barfly, I've never been to the joint and that I don't live close enough to the place to be affected one way or the other (i.e., no axe to grind). I just think that the apparent total disregard for rules being exhibited here is just as deplorable as illegal curb cuts, Scarano mezzanine floors, etc. etc.
  • daver
    daver

    Subject: Re: Cherry Tree Pub is closed

    johnife wrote: [quote=daver].....Interesting stuff on the DOB website, not anything that really matters though.
    Huh? Contravening zoning requirements by running a hostel in a single or two family home and by opening a bar/restaurant in a space defined as retail doesn't really matter?

    I guess I need to make clear that, even though I'm a barfly, I've never been to the joint and that I don't live close enough to the place to be affected one way or the other (i.e., no axe to grind). I just think that the apparent total disregard for rules being exhibited here is just as deplorable as illegal curb cuts, Scarano mezzanine floors, etc. etc.
    I meant that it doesn't matter in terms of that it is the DOH that closed them down, not the DOB. Not that it doesn't matter in the broader sense of things, which is why I posted it.
  • quijibo
    quijibo
    cherry tree took its case to court and they're open again
    somebody in the neighborhood has it out for them which is a shame
  • benzapp
    benzapp
    Mezzanine floors are not illegal and are explicitly described in the zoning code .

    If you feel the law as it is should be revised, talk to your city council representative.
  • johnife
    johnife
    benzapp wrote: Mezzanine floors are not illegal and are explicitly described in the zoning code .
    Exactly! And in the code is it very clearly described when such floors are countable towards FAR. Scarano chose to deliberately lie in his self-certification submissions by ignoring what the code says and counting what were obviously habitable spaces as "storage rooms" or whatever. I think it's a travesty that all the DOB made him do was put in raised plywood floors in the mezzanines to reduce the floor to floor height to below the minimum at which the SF contributes to FAR. They should have taken a couple of floors off the offending (and offensive) buildings. You a buddy of Bob's?

    Sorry to aid and abet in this diversion to the original thread, but I can't stop myself from countering every spin that seems intended to rehabilitate the image of an designer who has made it his mission in life to be the pioneer in the despoilment of Brooklyn's architectural heritage.
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