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Bogardus Plaza kiosk operators are requesting a liquor license
In the Good News department, the new operators of the Bogardus Plaza kiosk — who may get started as early as next week — are on the March 12 agenda for CB1’s Licensing Committee for a wine, beer & cider license, which means…drinking in the park! Crazy stuff.
I’m excited for one because it’s just plain fun to be able to have a beer in a park. And also because it might just give this iteration of the Bogardus kiosk a fighting chance at survival.
The new operation will be called JB and El Sazon — a collaboration between Joey Bats, who serves Portuguese pastries called natas de pasteis across the city, and El Sazon, a destination Dominican restaurant in Chinatown known for their smashburgers. See more on their plans here.
The Friends of Bogardus has a petition going in support of their liquor license application. Find it here to sign online.
The kiosk was first delivered to the plaza in February 2022. Zucker’s took the first stab at it, and left after their one-year lease was up in June 2023. Benvenuto followed a similar path, and just ended its residency there, called Tribeca Plate, in early December.
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CB should obviously deny a liquor license there. Bogardus has enough problems with weed smoking and homeless as is.
Tell me a place in our neighborhood/City that doesn’t have a problem with homelessness and weed smoking.
That would be so fun! Tribeca residents need to stop thinking Tribeca is a quiet suburb and stop trying to kill small businesses all the time
I don’t understand how this would circumvent the prohibition of alcohol in public parks(?). Or in public in general. Also, the deliveristas already drink in this area. Which worries me as we know there’s an increasing issue of cyclist on walking paths – then add to that, drunk cyclists on walking paths.
They will have to cordon off an area for those drinking, as they do in Hudson River Park for Drift In in the Village.
I just signed the petition. Sounds like a fun way to make the Plaza more like a European sidewalk cafe. I doubt that folks who buy a glass of wine or a bottle of beer will cause mayhem!