Sonny’s Corner (142 Franklin St.), a new neighborhood bar, opened in the former home of Greenpoint’s beloved Pencil Factory this past weekend.Â
When Pencil Factory closed last summer after 25 years, the neighborhood feared that the bar would be replaced by a sterile chain store. So, everyone was overjoyed to hear that the address would remain a bar owned and managed by local business owners, Tony Ismail of Cafe Alula(252 Franklin St.) and David…
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It’s a shame what they’ve done to the place. Almost no interior seating, extremely low-effort interior design changes.
Two surprises here. They named it after their baby. Babies are rarer than a decent priced cup of coffee in Greenpoint and wait till the patrons get the tab in order to help pay the owners the astronomical rent that were rumored to be paying.
Good luck to them.
there are babies everywhere in greenpoint
Quick correction, the Subway Sun was not a newspaper, but a poster campaign on the subway in the vein of the modern day “courtesy counts” campaign.