Gothamist: Die Hard East Village Lefties Protest Bowery Wine Co.

sonyactivision

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:53:59 -0500

A wine bar for Republicunts? Will they have Earnest and Julio on tap?

jenspellnogood

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:15:58 -0500

success is relative. yes to them and their ilk it will be, but anyone with the slightest bit of interest in non pasteurized gathering places it will be radioactive. everybody deserves to live, let them fester amongst themselves.

snessnyc

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:57:44 -0500

#4 don't you know that the place will be a big success BECAUSE it is sterile and without character. if these young Repugnicans wanted anything with character they wouldn't be buying up the E. Village and sterilizing/neutering it beyond all recognition.

ANGRYGOD11

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:12:51 -0500

I doubt anyone will find any young Republicans around here the day after the draft is reinstituted for McCain's army. But, I'm sure they'll be drinking very good wine in Europe until that little problem is taken care of by Daddy's lawyers.

petebfd

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:42:14 -0500

@dr zippy touché

dr zippy

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:27:47 -0500

"i'd take yuppie wine-drinking republicans over the club shirted fratboy beer swillers who generally populate the les on fri/sat nights" What do you think those fratboy beer swillers will morph into in five years?

amsci

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:09:15 -0500

"If the economy crashes, I doubt his apartment will be $3k/mo." Sure it will, and a wealthy young Euro will take it.

TKaisen

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:04:28 -0500

The "juvenile GOPer" will get his when the economy crashes and he can't afford his $3000/mo apartment. If the economy crashes, I doubt his apartment will be $3k/mo.

JenChungsBra

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:37:58 -0500

These things go in cycles. A wine bar now and a wino in 15 years. Which is worse? Just try to enjoy the middle when the pendulum swings. Either way, this Penley guy sounds like he's really shooting himself in the foot here. He's giving the place more publicity and attracting a whole bunch of idiot mini-Republitards to boot.

Spiritof76

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:49:39 -0500

The "juvenile GOPer" will get his when the economy crashes and he can't afford his $3000/mo apartment.

1987porsche944

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:43:23 -0500

Once CBGB's closed, the Bowery was lost anyway. At least we still have the Bowery Mission.

stereotypical

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:29:44 -0500

#7 I totally agree.

Snoopy

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:04:50 -0500

Isn't there a law against walking on other people's car roofs? Shouldn't Tatum O'Neal have a say in this?

petebfd

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:58:25 -0500

yeah, just forget it, manhattan is lost anyways. but, hey, i'd take yuppie wine-drinking republicans over the club shirted fratboy beer swillers who generally populate the les on fri/sat nights.

Politburo

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:47:19 -0500

What a moron.

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:46:12 -0500

@kissel, I'm also an independent. I would NEVER vote for the Democraps or Republicants.

jenspellnogood

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:38:03 -0500

you're all being played; willis doesn't own shit, they pay him to say so and to use his publicist. don't you idiots realize how much business this publicity will generate for them? all politics aside, the place sucks because it's so sterile and without character - it would die its own death, and only attract the young republicans if you'd leave it be. at least it would keep them out of the rest of the neighborhood joints.

kissel

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:30:24 -0500

as an independent, i wouldn't be too proud of someone calling themselves a democrat either... just look at the wonderful congress we voted in. Its just as bad as the last one and even 'porkier'.

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:25:41 -0500

I'm surprised anyone is proud to call themselves young Republicans after the last eight years of crap we've been handed by their leader.

matty

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:19:00 -0500

Stopping gentrification is futile. It's like trying to stop encroaching poverty. You can't fight market forces with pig roasts.