by Emma Davey Last year, it birthed Brat Summer.
This summer, The Lot Radio (17 Nassau Ave.) seemed poised for a quieter season, as renovations prompted a months-long closure starting last October.
The bar and radio station just announced it would reopen on Friday, July 11. Though the radio station kept streaming over the past few months, the bar and cafe remained closed in order to bring it up to code with the city’s health and…
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LOT patrons who are likely to be among the very first to rightfully rail & rant against water, soil & air pollution are strangely silent when it comes to the NOISE pollution that emanates from open air music sources such as LOT that are adjacent to quiet residential areas. It’s arrogant & grossly insensitive, not to mention illegal, to blast music into people’s homes & neighborhoods. Music may indeed “soothe the savage beast” but please, go find yourself an out of the way warehouse where you can be soothed! As for LOT’s management encouraging patrons to “buy ten beers!”, don’t we already have enough inebriated, loud, and unruly bar patron relieving themselves on the streets & sidewalks of Greenpoint? Is LOT being a “non-profit” supposed to be some kind of get-out-of-jail free card? Heck, all too often I too wind up being “non-profit” – in this increasingly unaffordable city of supercilious gentrifiers, greedy landlords and rapacious developer!
Ethel – I think youre too old for the neighborhood