More than 100 protestors gathered Thursday afternoon in front of Tommy’s Tavern (1041 Manhattan Ave.), a local dive bar on Manhattan Avenue, to condemn the owner’s recent behavior towards a black woman.
Kira, a black woman who works in Greenpoint, says that she was waiting at a bus stop across the street from the bar on June 7th when the owner, Thomas…
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I live next door, that guy says racist things to any Black person that walks by. He’s awful.
How do you cure a clearly mentally ill person of racism?
Also- this bar has been closed for a very long time and probably will never reopen.
Best bar in Greenpoint, hands down.
Can’t be that damn good if it’s been closed for as long as a previous commentator states. But I’m guessing you think it’s so great because of its racist owner??!
$3 cans of Schaefer, flat and level pool table with room to shoot, boar bristle dart board, back room that hosted wild shows for years, hilariously rude bartenders, and the most diverse customer base you’ll ever find in GP. So Tommy is a little nuts, kinda rounds it all off if you ask me. I hope he pulls himself together -the death of his mother really was a big hit- and opens the place up again.
Shouting in the street with pitchforks and then vandalizing the business isn’t helping anyone.
I’ve seen this guy have arguments with mailboxes, I wouldn’t take it personally. Always a diverse group of regulars at this place. I used to play pool there A LOT with friends (black, gay, foreign, whatever), it was fun. Sad to read about this and sad to see this placed vandalized.
What was the murder that happened there?
Awful to hear how this crazy bar owner behaved but as a longtime Greenpoint resident, I was very surprised to hear Kira say she was the only black person in Greenpoint. Greenpoint is fairly diverse with a large Latino population and many other people of color (certainly including African Americans) living here and also working here. If anything, new affordable housing has made the area more diverse. I hope Kira knows that this insane bar owner is the exception in Greenpoint which is, again, fairly diverse and pretty welcoming to all who come, at least as I know it.