Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report

Turns out the gastropub and sports bar, coupled with a pizzeria and falafel joint, planned for the corner of Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue may be far more demure than what's planned for the rest of the space, some 35,000 square feet. As the Brooklyn Paper reports, in Mega-party space to rise across from Barclays Center : “How about neon or digital behind glass, aimed at the crowds streaming into the Barclays Arena?” the ad crows. “Our architect calls it a ‘sexy space’ — we call it a freakin’ GOLDMINE for the right user!” The ad dangles the prospect of “80,000 customers a night,” though the $1-billion arena seats roughly 18,000. The owner of the building, Henry Weinstein, had been a plaintiff in the Atlantic Yards eminent domain cases, given his property within the arena footprint, but he's a businessman first. The tight fit As with previous public battles over Prime Six and the abovementioned establishments, the concern from neighbors emanates from the very tight fit ...

As a commenter pointed out on Park Slope Patch, another bar, Machavelle, is destined for 602 Pacific Street , what appears to be a residential building (with, apparently, mixed-use zoning) next to the furniture store that would be the home of Players , a gastropub and sports bar, which generated much concern at a Community Board 6 committee meeting Monday night. A liquor license application for Machavelle was filed April 12 , so the plans have apparently not yet been before the Community Board. A brief YouTube video , below, is described as "New Bar Design in downtown Brooklyn across from the new Nets stadium."

Residents of northwest Park Slope, already wary of seemingly under-the-radar efforts to install new arena-related bars near the under-construction Barclays Center, had some harsh words last night for entrepreneurs aiming to put Players Gastro Pub and Sportsbar, plus a pizza/falafel quick serve combo, in a building on Pacific Street at Flatbush Avenue now home to a furniture store. (Above left, photo from Google Maps; note that the building at left has been demolished and is the site of arena construction. The view is looking south along Flatbush.) “We do not need a bar on Pacific Street,” commented resident Syble Henderson, who helped found the Brooklyn Bear’s community garden at the northwest corner of Pacific and Flatbush, speaking at at a Community Board 6 subcommittee meeting concerning permits and licenses. “Historically that block has been impacted with all kinds of anti-social activities,” Henderson said at the meeting held at the 78th Precinct at Bergen Street and Sixth Avenue...

Thanks in part to mediation by the North Flatbush Business Improvement District, there's Finally, A Compromise Over Prime 6 , as Park Slope Patch reports: The owner of a controversial Park Slope bar and restaurant has agreed to a bevy of demands, including closing his backyard seating area by 11 p.m. on weekdays and 12 a.m. on weekends. Akiva Ofshtein, owner of Prime 6, the restaurant under construction at Flatbush and Sixth avenues, agreed to the laundry list of stipulations after a group of irate local residents insisted that the eatery change its hours, backyard setup and even requested a new liquor license hearing. Ofshtein also ditched plans for a backyard bar, nixed any possibility of bottle service and promised to meet with Community Board 6 after one year to discuss any recurring problems. There's a vote tonight at Community Board 6, which is expected to ask the State Liquor Authority to enumerate the agreement in Prime 6's liquor license. More from Patch .

The Brooklyn Paper reported yesterday, in In Prime 6 fight, the bar owner has two faces : The owner of a controversial new bar in Park Slope maintains that his place will be a local eatery — but he told state liquor officials that the two-story, 230-person “lounge,” will hire four “security guards,” offer “bottle service” and have an outdoor “stand-up bar.” Prime 6 will be a live music venue that caters both to Brooklynites and, “out-of-town patrons in anticipation of the Barclays stadium” that is rising one block away, according to a booze permit application filed by owner Akiva Ofshtein last year with the State Liquor Authority. “It will offer several rooms for private parties, including a basement lounge [and] a large outdoor secluded-dining backyard to be enjoyed during the spring,” the application continued. The hip hop controversy And let's not forget Capital NY's piece last week, Flatbush Avenue freakout: How a race-baiting hoax hooked Bobo Brooklyn, briefly : Two days a...