He has complete disregard for the law, his employees and customers. He is not in it for music or the neighborhood or even the money as it all goes up his nose.

it was a good mid-size live venue. nice stage and comfortable to watch bands from any vantage point in the room. a shame really. greenpoint needs a decent venue.

hey wasn't the Alter Natives reunion show supposed to go down at this joint? shit.

=( I love that place....

He would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those damned kids

"ranik also tells Paper that Kelleran had been buying his booze retail from liquor stores, and adds, "They'll never get a liquor license there again. [Kelleran's] family owns the building, so no one is going to buy it from him and get a license. It's majorly screwed, for many years at least.""

2 questions - 

I thought all NYC bars were supposed to buy their liquor at retail - that somehow its illegal for bars to buy at wholesale prices, so a bottle in a bar costs the bar pretty much what it costs us?  Is that right or wrong?

Why wouldn't a new owner of the building be able to get a liquor license for another joint just because the previous owner fucked up?

Bars are not allowed to buy from retail stores. They have to buy from wholesalers that are registered with SLA. Those wholesalers have to file price schedules, and other than for volume-related discounts (the rates of which also have to reported in those price schedules) they have to sell to every bar at the same price. Bars are required to have ready at hand a receipt from a registered wholesaler to account for every bottle in inventory.

While both liquor stores and bars are buying at wholesale, liquor stores generally pay less per bottle than bars due to those volume discounts. They're selling a whole bottle at a time, while a bar is selling about an ounce or ounce-and-a-half at a time, so they go through more inventory. So, you and I may end up paying the same or less for a bottle at "retail" than a bar does at "wholesale". But that's not because the government's trying to create that situation; it's just how the pricing works out.

On the day that a retail liquor license expires, by the way, every state-registered wholesaler is notified of that fact and informed that they can not sell to that retailer (bar). In this case, since they did still have the license from 68 they probably could have still purchased from wholesalers using that... but 68 is a restaurant with very low liquor sales volume compared to Coco 66 so that itself might have raised red flags.

On question two: the point is that since Kelleran owns the building and lives upstairs, Granik's speculation is that it would not be sold to someone else. If it were to be, sure that person might be able to get a license even if the current ownership could not.

You are incredibly well informed.  Even more so than the article was.

Probably too big a risk for someone to come in, do a build out and apply for a new LL at that location, no?  CB1 seems to be fed up with new bars in the area, and from what I understand, locals weren't too thrilled with the noise associated with CC66. 

Damn informative, much thanks.

right? sometimes i think jaycjay needs a cape.

I organized a party here a few years ago. Owner seemed like he was from space or high or something.

He somehow forgot to get the keg of beer we were supposed to serve, so he ran out and bought 6 packs. None of this surprises me.

Seva sure is chatty..

STOP TAKING IT OUT ON INANIMATE OBJECTS (pouring booze, burning counterfeit clothes, etc.) -- just fucking bring back corporal punishment already.  and yes, i know that's what the government really wants to do.

I'm sure more then a few bottles were "saved"

what a waste of drinks.

Exactly.  Why are police always so wasteful?  They could have had a "bake sale" type thing and made money to go towards DARE (or some other useless organization).