Mooney's Evicted! Same evil landlord as Royal Video

Video Edge should become a Starbucks.

announcing that they're closing may have been the best business decision they've made in years... that place gets a lot more visitors these days than it used to.

Actually, I erred, meaning that we were there on Saturday, so the bartender was some dude named Ben, not the owner's son. Ben said that he used to bartend at Loki and still works part-time at Freddy's. If the new TVs arrived after the eviction notice and the new jukebox is intended to earn more money, I'd say these both prove, rather than disprove, my original point.

quick confirmation question - the owner mei chi is the same person that's evicting mooney's and evicted royal video, right? I am certain I read that somewhere in here but with the search function all screwy, I'm too confused to find it.

thanks.

I went after my shift tonight with some friends from work (got there around midnight). I didn't see any of you usual suspects there, but the bar was packed. It sure didn't look like the last night for Mooney's.

I am so in denial. Where else will I get a perfectly-poured Guinness, complete with shamrock in the foam?

yes the only way to make it thru the crowd was to play the bagpipes. people scattered for that guy.

Subject: New Mooney's?

If anyone knows whether Mooney's is looking to relocate please post. It's an awful shame for us to lose such a welcoming and simple bar to hang out in, always meeting the best of the boro. We all say we don't want Starbucks, but we know it will SRO if it winds up there. And did we really need Bank of America???

Subject: Re: Ben

[ i miss Lee (RIP)

yeah lee was a cool guy.

i hear this weekend is it for mooney's. it's really sad. there's nothing else like it, and it surely won't be replaced by something better.

I'll believe it when I see it. We've heard this story 3-4 times over the past year or so.

I know this is an old thread but I just came across this very sad news today.

I lived upstairs for about 2 years and loved it. I loved the neighborhood (miss it dearly now that I'm out here in Seattle) and am deeply saddened by this. Sure it was a dive, but it was a fixture of a great neighborhood.

And to the person who was whining about the noise - I lived there for 2 years and and had no troubles at all with it. It was actually nothing compared with the noise of the City's garbage truck backing up to the curb and slamming Mr. Mooney's trash bins up and down and then crashing them onto the sidewalk at 4am. Even with the ambient noise of Flatbush Avenue and the Jazz from the UpOver Jazz Cafe (if that's even still there), I never had a single issue. And since I was just starting a career on Wall Street at that time, I was up at 5am during the weekdays. Again, nothing in the world to complain about noise-wise.

I often wonder if the people who complain about such things while living in a huge CITY aren't originally from some elitist community in southern CA or Denver. It's sort of like the difference between "travellers" and "tourists" - "travellers" find that things are different from home and they enjoy it. "Tourists" find things different from home and complain. Go back home....more space on the train for me.

Since I'm not back there, does anyone have confirmation on what the landlord has done/is doing with the place now that Mr. Mooney is out?

Its gone man, for us who grew up here and had our first drinks when we were teenagers at Mooney´s in the early 90´s. IT sad but tru, next up is Freddy´s!!!