The Brooklyn Paper reports that the 10th Street Tea Lounge is closing, due to rising rents. Whoa that’s big news.

South Slope writers, mommies and, yes, even a few coffee lovers,
were crying in their lattes this week at the news that the original Tea
Lounge — a neighborhood staple on the corner of Seventh Avenue and 10th
Street — will close at the end of July, a victim, its owner said, of
soaring rent demands.

“It’s killing us,” said co-owner Greg Wolf,
who opened the popular java joint in early 2001. “The closing is
completely ruining our lives.”

Wolf blamed his landlord, Georgina
Tufano, for doubling the rent on his small storefront, though he
declined to reveal the dollar figure.

“It’s astronomical,” said Wolf, whose other bars are on Union Street in Park Slope and on Court Street in Cobble Hill.