To appease neighbors, the club has installed double doors to prevent noise from reaching the street. They have also tapped employees to sweep the sidewalk in front of the venue and answer the phone during the day to take complaints from neighbors.
…say the new owners of Studio B to the Brooklyn Paper.
I’ll be giving this a try soon.
I stole the title of this post from an anonymous commenter from this Gothamist post on the Production Lounge. Now it’s going to be demonizing the neighborhood as some kind of racist cesspool, instead of stepping up and saying, “We want to be good neighbors. We are as horrified at the shooting as you are. We want to work with you and we want to stay in Greenpoint. We will make changes and you will see that we can be good neighbors and that nothing like this will ever happen again.”
Why can’t he just say that? Just say that. That isn’t admitting to anything. It’s just saying what needs to be said.
Studio B pulled the same crap on us when we were fighting them. A neighbor came up with a list of demands, all of which were standard items that any club should be doing (double doors, smoking pen, etc.) and they acted like the neighbor had invented these things on the spot and that they would certainly do them and oh thank you for telling us. Why didn’t they just DO THEM, say they were done, and then get on with it?
Now he has assured that he will have no sympathy from the neighborhood, and the goodwill of some Park Slope hipsters who believe everything they read on Gothamist is not going to help him stay open.
And yes, apparently Studio B has been able to rise from the dead. They will be good neighbors, they will follow rules and policies, or we will call 311 and the 94th six times a night with every complaint we see.
I had a class this evening so I didn’t arrive until close to 8pm, but any worries that I might have missed the festivities were assuaged immediately. It was standing room only, OG residents and hipster newcomers, everyone concerned about one thing: the 2/14 shooting incident at the Production Lounge, and the bar in general, as it’s been widely regarded in the neighborhood as troublesome from day 1.
I felt sorry for the Detective Inspector, as he patiently attempted to give calm answers to what was, essentially, the same question asked in 60 different ways. I don’t blame anyone - I know what it was like when we were fighting Studio B and no one cared except the handful of us right in the area - but at some point you have to realize that the police are not going to tell you exactly what they are going to do to deal with the bar because then the troublemakers are just going to do the opposite.
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I have sympathy for residents unhappy about filming (especially when Fringe AND Life On Mars are back at Franklin & Greenpoint one day after the other - Life On Mars needs A LOT of space for all its vintage cars, but I don’t have sympathy for one group of people in Greenpoint:
Construction companies.
No, Hunter Roberts Construction Group, you don’t get to stop filming in Greenpoint because it gets in the way of whatever crappy building you are working on.
Now, that reminds me, I need to go look up some DOB permits.
I am the biggest fan of having a bookstore down the street from me…but the chances of me ever getting home in time to pick up a book by 7pm during the week is slim and none. So I was delighted to get a note from the store’s mailing list today advising me of their new hours:
Monday-Thursday: 11am-8pm
Friday-Saturday: 11am-9pm
Sunday: 12noon-8pm
I’m going to take the decision to extend hours (and operate 7 days a week) as a sign that the store is doing a healthy business, another great thing.
There’s nothing cooler than emailing the store and having them hold books for you (which they love doing) - support your local bookseller!
