Last week NY Times’ reporter, Alison Stateman wrote an article about the building on Second Street called “The House that Whimsy Built.”
House of whimsy? Come on, it’s the building that a crazy lady refuses to take care of that causes much consternation to the residents of Park Slope.
Now there’s “Look Who’s Getting Rolled Out of the Bar?” by Alex Williams. It’s the Union Hall story that’s been blogged about ad bloggium but she left out one important detail. Union Hall plans on letting moms and kids into the bar.
In the afternoons.
That was something I reported in my front page article “State of the Union: Kids are back in the ‘Hall’ ” in the Brooklyn Paper.
While it’s true that Union Hall instituted a no stroller, no one under 21 rule for evening hours, the real issue was whether mommy groups could meet there in the afternoon. And it seems that Union Hall wants to welcome them in.
Hello?
These stupid yuppy idiot parents make me sick. CHILDREN DO NOT BELONG IN A BAR! What part of that do you people not get? If being inside w/children is making you all “stir crazy” then you should have though of that BEFORE you had the damn kids! As a non-parent I do NOT want to go into a bar and see children, I don’t give a crap how well behaved they are. I wish that stupid smoking law was never put into effect bc you morons now think this is YOUR time. The world cannot and will not be child friendly. That’s how it is. And what happens in other countries is fine for them. But here in AMERICA no child should be in a bar.
You took the time to decide to become a parent & now you’re crying over it. Well, too damn bad. I’ve known some very young women who had children (I’m talking 16 years old w/TWO kids) and threw their teenage lives away. For the most part, they dealt w/it. I cannot believe a bunch of women, most of which are probably well into their 30’s, are having trouble w/mommyhood.
I find it hard to believe these yuppy schmucks have nothing else better to do all day than sit in a bar like a bunch of losers w/their whiney kids. Maybe you can all pool the millions your dorky husbands make and build a million dollar state of the art yuppy facility for your children. Make sure to build it back in Okiedokiesville where you’re all from & don’t let the door hit you when you pack your Audi’s up and leave.
And people complain about the minorites in this city………
Bringing children into the bar…another example of the entitlement of the “new” Park Slope parents. It’s all about them. I have already raised my kids and have earned the right to go into an adult environment without having to have toddlers run around. They should either gather in someone’s house or just stay home like we had to. As for Roberta whining about Union Hall…The owner Jim Carden has done everything by the book, despite what they say. They just don’t want a bar on their block. Put it on someone else’s block is their attitude. He has every right to be in that space. It is zoned for commercia business. Get over it.
Since when are bars meetings places for playgroups? Bars are for adults not for children. Having a child does not make you special or entitled to rights – bring your child to the bar when he/she turns 21.
Yes, why would anyone want to take their children to a bar? If they want to meet up with other mommies and their children and have a drink, why can’t they host their friends at their house where their children are welcome?
NO ONE, at a bar really wants to see your kid.
Children do not belong in a bar, period. What about the other patrons? Who wants to hear some annoying baby when they just want to have a beer? Some parents really need to grow up. Either get a nanny or babysitter or don’t have kids at all!
Dear “saucytart” and “alyssa” – I raise a toast to you!
True, the Times did get the 2nd St Bldg story very wrong.
Its fine that Union Hall does not want strollers inside. what is wrong with locking them up outside the bar? I have neighbors who lock their strollers outside their houses. ( they bring the kids inside…)
a few kids in a bar does not bother me, what bothers me are the small minority of self-important parents whose kids can do no wrong, and who do not pay mind to what their kids are doing, esp in a bar. The only problem being this small group of problem parents/kids ruin it for everyone.
BTW, the Tea Lounge, aka Stroller Central, has a bar, and a good happy hour.
Union Hall has been a horror to the whole Union Street block that it resides on. Carden promised a “Tea Lounge” before he opened. Instead, he made a rock venue, open until 4 am, seven days a week, on a residential block. I live across the street from the bar and haven’t gotten a night’s sleep whenever the weather is decent. Carden skipped the entire liquor license approval process, by applying to the wrong Community Board, thus circumventing the proper policy put in place to protect residents like me. Now he has shown himself to be more of a liar than I even imagined, by restricting just those people he said he was welcoming prior to opening. I hope every mother with a stroller goes to the bar on the same day. I would like him to try to get rid of them by calling his friends at the local precinct. Now that would be wonderful publicity for his business.
only now it seems that only the stroller moms (and the now manipulated owners of union hall) are the only ones who want tots in the bar.
If I want to hoist a few, I want to hoist them away from my kid (and more pertinently yours too). Since when has a bar been a playgroup meet-up for moms/dads who want to get their drink on? Ugh.
Is there no place sacred from the stroller & kid set? Are we so unable to cut the umbilical cord that we have to drag our kids to the bars too? Maybe we can’t afford child care (in Park Slope, I doubt this is the real issue)? A lack of child are is a biggie with me, but that just means I’m not going to very many bars. Not that this is such a great loss.
Maybe it’s just me, but since when have bars become social halls for parents and their kids. It’s not like there aren’t places where you can go with your kids to hang out. Here’s a novel concept — how about the park.
I like a nip as much as the next person, but frankly, if i’m going to a bar — you know a place where the primary purpose for its being is to have a cocktail, a glass of wine or a beer — I don’t want to enjoy my libations next to your kid **or** mine. I see my kid plenty without dragging him out to the local with me.
I know some of you will say, “but Union Hall is a restaurant and music venue too”. So what. I still don’t want to spend my stolen child-free moments with your kid. Just saying.