Gothamist: Hard for Brooklyn Brewery to Find a New Brooklyn Home

dadoc

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:35:57 -0500

Jeez Bornbrednewyorker, ya don't like beer, ya don't like breweries, don't like smokes, ya get pissed about hot chicks on stilts. Would you be so kind as to provide a list of what you DO think is OK? It'll help us as to what we post & comment about. To each their own, & hope you enjoy stuff, whatever it is! (I'm somehow having a weird, creepy feeling that I'm responding to Sister Thomas Aquin, my seventh grade teacher @ OLPH who liked nothing.) Sr. TA, is that you? Man, I'm getting creeped. Enjoy, BBNY, whatever your thing. Dadoc

bornbrednewyorker

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:48:00 -0500

tsol the same could be said for people who work for cigarette companies. Sorry but alcohol isn't a necessity.

sarahlucy

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:29:41 -0500

yesss, come to bed stuy! we do love our beer here (40s AND your standard 12 oz, thank you very much)

Think twice

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:52:41 -0500

Keep a small, token, folksy-looking brewery in Williamsburg and put your main operations in mega-plants around the country and go Budweiser/Miller/Duff on everybody's ass. The free market marches on.

dgm

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:49:30 -0500

Why dont they take this place on North 7th and North 6th in Williamsburg? It is in their price range. I'd rather have them as neighbors that a 14 story hotel. http://www.greinermaltz.com/pages/Flyer.aspx?TableName=[Exclusive%20Properties]&ID=620

markedman

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:41:55 -0500

It's poetic in that Hindy has supported all of this new Brooklyn overdevelopment, Ratner and Atlantic Yards, and all of the Williamsburg/Greenpoint rezoning and it has come around to bite him in the ass. Be careful what you ask for! Send Brooklyn Brewery to Jersey, we've got Sixpoints.

whantmoore

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:09:56 -0500

He is a victim of his own success now that were is located is hip of course you will have a increase in property value.

TSOL

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:20:08 -0500

"It's beer. Who cares" It's jobs, payrolls, and and the resulting tax revenues used by the city and the state to enrich their employee pensions.

JenChungsBra

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:17:06 -0500

He bikes to work from Park Slope? Let him rot.

bornbrednewyorker

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:58:59 -0500

It's beer. Who cares? It's not as if beer is enriching peoples lives in any way other than self medication.

Blairy Blair

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:39:46 -0500

Word. BKLN can't even take care of its own.

Snoopy

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:35:55 -0500

LOL

Snoopy

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:30:24 -0500

Obviously by the way you spell.

matty

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:32:12 -0500

i didn't read this article but I love brooklyn lager...though today I am a drinking Botsont's sams adams summer ale, I like both beers and buy both frequently...

kcin122

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:17:54 -0500

theres a few buildings in crown heights that as far as I know have nothing in them which used to brew. not sure how to get a lease on that junk tho.

Jen Chung

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:11:40 -0500

@Peter, I think Hindy likes having the business near his home and keeping jobs in the borough.

Snoopy

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:47:49 -0500

Can you just pee over all this? Most of the beer is bottled in Utica, New York? Isn't that the same place that use to bottle A&P's quarts? Do they ship up tank loads to Utica to bottle this exclusive brew? There's a lot of real estate in Bed Stuy (which is in Brooklyn) for a brewery, but unfortunately they have to be bottled in forties.

Peter

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:37:14 -0500

Hindy is hoping city officials can step up and help him keep the brewery--and its jobs--in Brooklyn, but added, "Once you name your company Brooklyn Brewery, you kind of take away the threat of moving to New Jersey." Actually, Hindy could move all operations to New Jersey or elsewhere while keeping the company's headquarters - which could be just a few people - in rented office space in Brooklyn, and the company name would not be inaccurate. City officials could be very wrong if they negotiate with the company under the assumption that relocation won't happen.