A reader writes,
“What’s up with Snooky’s? “It was closed Friday and Saturday Yesterday, the windows were covered with brown paper. There are no signs. Two thoughts cross my mind: it’s going out of business or it’s been closed by the Health Department, but this is speculation on my part.”
I noticed that Snooky’s was closed and wondered if it was temporary or forever. If Snooky’s goes — that’s it. Snooky’s NEEDS to be on Seventh Avenue. It’s been there forever. We even went there once in 1992.
It’s a sports bar. A real bar. A party space. A repository of Park Slope history. It’s gotta stay. That’s all I can say. It’s gotta stay.
COULD IT BE THAT THEY’RE RENOVATING?
I love Snooky’s!!! it was the last great place in Brooklyn to get a steak. My husband and I frequented Snooky’s once a month – on the day we met. The waiters knew us by name, let alone always remembered what we ordered. The House special, no onions.. medium rare.
I was disheartened to see the window’s papered up and the sign in the window.
Is there really an italian resturant going in?
Does Brooklyn, REALLLY NEED another italian restruant? Another marinara sauce? Another chicken parm? I think not.
Snooky’s was the last bit of Brooklyn in what is now seemingly gentrifacationville.
The New York City Building Permits are in the window of Snooky’s. I guess the changeover to whatever takes Snooky’s place is about to begin.
Snooky’s is history. Closed. The space will reopen as an Italian restaurant run by different
management. Why did this happen? Probably because business had fallen off too much to stay open as they were. Refusal to change the menu a bit to compete with all the new food places opening on 7th Ave & 5th Ave could have had something to do with it. Also, the habitual group of barflies visible in the front window all the time might have discouraged newcomers from entering and trying the place. Just a thought.
The food was consistent, if not great. Too bad,
this was a neighborhood tradition. And gone before SuperBowl Sunday, too.
I’ve noticed a terrible trend in Park Slope. While sometimes being provincial can be a good thing, people are becoming the very thing they’ve been trying to avoid. Conservative, whitebread, and boring. Look, the neighborhood is safe enough, let’s not try to shut down every single bar or place that doesn’t conform with your suburban safety rules. You own the sidewalks with your baby strollers. You have your Starbucks and your fancy little overpriced Tea Lounges. Just leave well enough alone already! Go to Ohio and change people’s minds on voting for a president instead of trying to start a rally to shut down something so completely benign that might add some flavor to the neighborhood. A neighborhood that has existed before $2.50 iced coffees and private schools were the norm. Bring back crime! Yay!
A source tells me Snooky’s will probably be sold and re-opened as more high-end eatery