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It seems like just yesterday that Sound Fix Lounge (the bar/venue attached to the record store) in Williamsburg was being shut down, only to be joyously reopened soon after. Well kids, now your precious Sound Fix is being taken away again! Reportedly "the license to serve booze will go bye-bye a little over a month from now" (and we all know comedy, nor music, work without alcohol). Word is that "the owner simply didn't want to fight the neighbors on this any longer." One of whom is allegedly Teresa Polonski, who works for Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, and as speculated last time she may have brought the Mayor's task force down on the venue.
Max Silvestri, who draws a crowd there each week for his comedy night Big Terrific, confirmed that "neighbors were not fans of a very quiet bar that always closed by midnight. It's a shame, because I think people were really starting to count on Sound Fix Lounge as a place to go for consistently great and surprising comedy. But twenty-somethings laughed and drank PBR before Sound Fix, and I'm sure they'll keep doing that. We are definitely going to find a new home for Big Terrific. We're not sure where yet, but we hear Times Square is amazing and a perfect spot for alternative comedy." But that place isn't even off the L.
Expect a closing date sometime at the end of February. In the meantime, this Saturday you can catch Loney, Dear (seriously one of the quietest bands on earth) play for free at the lounge. They'll go on early (like many acts there have), so the performance will likely not even disturb Polonski as she washes the blood from her hands.
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Damn! And here I thought if I moved to Williamsburg I would be at the forefront of being cool and very hipster like. I guess the hundred pounds I lost along with my electric razor was a waste. Are there any places out there that are kool and not too gentrified, but safe at the same time? Also might I add cheap? Like under $500 for a three bedroom. Nothing above the third floor please. With a decent view and access to a subway within two blocks. I have a bike but I don't like leaving it chained up at the top of the train station. Unless of course it's a safe neighborhood. It's a Schwinn.
Seriously, I can't find any connection between that comment and the article it's supposedly commenting on.
Oh yeah, there it is! They both contain the word "Williamsburg."
I guess you wouldn't see the connection. Let me spell it out for you. Williamsburg for the last few years was the relocated East Village and although some jerks think it replaced SoHo it never even came close.
The quote, "But twenty-somethings laughed and drank PBR before Sound Fix, and I'm sure they'll keep doing that." Does that say something to you? Billyburg was for the few that wanted to be in the cultural mellieu of NYC but fled to Brooklyn because it was cheap and brought all that lower East side crap with them. And at the same time became cartoon characters of their "culture."
Yep, what that quote means to me is that the closing of this place will change nothing about Williamsburg. And that was my point: that yet another anti-Williamsburg rant, while almost an automatic reaction to any Gothamist post that has the word "Williamsburg" in it, isn't relevant.
kcin my reply was to jayclay. One must really evaluate the new server Gothamist is using. IT SUCKS!
though I'm sad to see a nice business close down, I will most definitely NOT miss the groups of drunk, loud and obnoxious smokers loitering outside the doorway till the wee hours of the morning. (and I never complained to anyone, must've been the folks living upstairs, Im at the other end of the BLOCK)
how the hell are you going to live in Williamsburg and be upset about drunk idiots?
thats like being in the army and complaining about guns.
4-Typical response from a newbie. Sound Fix is on a residential street which has always been a residential street and was one way before Sound Fix became a venue. Doesn't matter how 'quiet' the bands that play there are. It's a club. It seriously sucks to have a bar or venue outside your window and no...Williamsburg wasn't just"drunk idiots" 8- 10 years ago or now. It was a sleepy albeit sketchy commuter neighborhood. I'm surprised this place was granted a liquor license in the first place. I hope they find an appropriate area for their venue. I wish them luck.
Public bathroom-style ceramics on the wall, depressingly yellow lighting and chock full of little candles; I'm not sure whether I wanna pee or kneel and pray!
Yeah I'm a 31 yo 6'0 average looking white guy and I completely got the wrong end of the cop the other night. I got threatened by a beatdown, my girlfriend threatened by rape, while the cop had his hand on his gun.
Ever have that?
Its not a fucking game.
Passenger of patrol car 1523 in Harlem. Fucking white trash. Without a badge and a gun he's be a body in the river.
He's a little fucking Napoleon. Tiny little big-mouth.
oh please, are you really trying to compare williamsburg to the LES/EV shitshow?
Sure - bedford avenue is a little annoying, but east of driggs is quiet and liveable.
So many williamsburg haters on this blog - why don't we talk about how much the upper east side and murray hill suck?
For all of Williamsburg's banality, I really did enjoy this place when I lived in Bushwick (In my defense, it was 2003 and I was a recently graduated Pratt student and found wonderfully cheap rent there. Not the "ohio transplant" everyone likes to make fun of.)
That said, it was just a cafe then and I liked the soft folksy music they played, I could sit there all day and drink cheap tea. I even met some nice people there. Too bad it's changed so much since then. I liked it before the booze.