Beer and wine will be sold at the failing Five Stuy Cafe. At least that is my prediction. When and if it gets official, I will repost a link to my previous main page post on "Let the Beer Flow." Because that is where we have heading.
The current Management will pull a fast one by having a "Town Hall" meeting (of course, at the small Community Center) on April 3rd. Residents will hear the reasons for the application from Five Stuy Cafe. Already posted online is the FAQ, which state that Stuyvesant Property Services (basically Manager Rick Hayduk, with Blackstone behind him) are for Five Stuy Cafe to sell beer and wine.
Of course, Stuy Town has been known as a family community for decades, and even is trying to sell that notion to prospective residents. But people know the truth. Money and more money is vastly important to the landlord (Blackstone now), and Rick Hayduk was chosen, for a variety of reasons, to make the huge pill go down.
This is what I see at Five Star Cafe. It has never followed the rule of "For Resident and their Guests," though now they were assuredly do. Five Star Cafe been a commercial space open to all, which is against zoning regulations.... Five Star Cafe may even purposefully wait for this meeting, and then thank us for bringing up the subject, all the while internally smiling that they have given in to residents. This is a ploy. Nothing more.
There are over 21 thousands residents of Stuy Town. Officially. How many go to the cafe? If you look at the number, not many. But FAQ states that cafe is popular and used by residents. BS.
We are told that the staff at Five Stuy Cafe will be trained for this new beer and wine use. Yes, trained enough to spot fake age IDs.
Five Stuy Cafe needs the money. Most people like to sit, buy something and smooch. The college set like to take out their laptops and work. They will buy something, but is it enough to keep the cafe going?
There are other rules that the cafe will try to explain way. How about the 500 foot rule that disallows the selling of beer and wine so close to certain establishments? Are playgrounds with children part of this? How about the potential of increasing noise from the cafe?
And please don't rely on Public Safety. We know their success at enforcing the troublesome rules that get continually mentioned by Management.
Wednesday, April 3th, starting at 6:30 PM. A meeting with Five Stuy Cafe. Management might be there, too.
