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Thanks a lot, New York Times. The gay crowd in Carroll Gardens was having a fabulous time partying it up at their regular Monday night "Fondle" party at South Brooklyn Pizza, but then the City Section had to come along write about it. Now the fuzz wants to know whether party organizers violated cabaret license regulations by enlisting musclebound guys in thongs to dance on the bar. According to Brooklyn Paper, on Monday night Captain Kenneth Corey of the 76th Precinct told the Neighborhood Association, "That [Times article] was the first I heard of it. We’re going to determine the legality of it. If they’re outside of it, then we’re going to take action." The party, which co-organizer Evan Siegel named "Fondle" only "after rejecting several others that sounded too gay," seems to have perturbed some locals in a community that's just not as Guido as it once was. 80-year-old Buddy Scotto, owner of Scotto Funeral Home, tells the Times, "We’re a lot more tolerant than we used to be. Maybe we can live with this, but we’re going to watch closely." We bet you will, honey!
Carroll Gardens Cops May Bust Gay Go-Go Dancer Pizza Party
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Yeah, I'm sure the NYPD is really "watching closely"..... all the closeted new recruits are already lubing up their walkie-talkie antennae and telling their girlfriends' that there going out drinking with the guys!
yes, carroll gardens is sooooo much better now that the "guidos" have been replaced by investment bankers and their ridiculous spouses/kids...as though being italian confers instant "guido" certification upon a person. gothamist values/judgments are so absurd.
@mrapples18: When I stop meeting Italian investment bankers in Carroll Gardens who say "You know what they say: If you can't rob 'em, join 'em!" while shaking my hand at a restaurant in which none of the waiters speak English, then maybe the term "absurd" can be used.
oh, you meet a great deal of textbook, "goombah" investment bankers? and what are you talking about concerning restaurant staffing? italians are clearly the only group that our culture has deemed eligble for mockery based upon a fictional stereotype of who they are. you obviously subscribe to that decision.
p.s. why is it o.k. to throw a term like "guido" around?
Because a guido is a guido, that's why. Stereotypes exist and always will. Not all Italians are guidos, but all guidos are Italian. Same can be said about rednecks. Not all white people are rednecks, but all rednecks are white people. If you don't like the association that guido confers, talk to your peeps and get them to change. Otherwise STFU and deal with it.
funny how there exists a consistency with those, according to your standards, who may be labeled...what about other groups, may these sort of ugly names be applied to the worst examples of their communities as well?
"Fondle" happens on Mondays, not Sundays.
Life is a Cabaret. Seriously are we the only city left in the entire USA who has to have a separate permit/license to shake your ass to music in the presence of alcohol? Even bars in Arkansas think we are nuts to have this sort of law.
bars in Trenton had similar licensing issues as recently as five years ago, not sure if it's changed since (and not that Trenton is what we want to be emulating...)
Do they offer a sausage pizza special?