Rather Definitive Mooney's News

Subject: Rather Definitive Mooney's News

Mooney's will be open until the new year! I read all of these posts stating Mooney's was gonna close at the end of this month, but no worries! They'll be open til' January 1st. Perhaps a mad New Years eve party should be planned/booked/made for the last hours of its existence. Sorry if that was posted on another board and I didn't read every posting on the thread. But the source is credible as hell. Looks like Jan. 2nd is the last day!

Well, well, now that you mention it why don't we have Festivus there?
What's everyones availability?

I'll be around until the 23rd. Since I've never been, I'd love to check it out before it closes.

Thanks for the heads up, LeeHo!

i'm leaving on the 21st, but i'll be there if something happens before then.

i vote thursday the 20th, when i'll be exhausted but done with teaching for the semester, i.e., in desperate need of a drink.

I'm game if I'm in country. I too teach and wrap up on the 14th, so I'll probably be in a hangover haze for most of that week. The little lady and I may be heading to Japan, but it is still up in the air. Would like to spread some holiday cheer. It'd be fun to organize an online Secret Santa somehow, yeah? Wouldn't that be fun?

Damn I have a work holiday party on the 20th, but I guess I could be at Mooney's a little late and tipsy!

Shall we start a new thread and do a poll for dates? or should LeeHo just amend the title on this one and add a poll?

I'm down for whatever.

The 20th works for me.

I'll be flying out to California on the 22nd, so the 20th works for me.

I'm pretty much in for the 20th.

Subject: Re: Rather Definitive Mooney's News

LeeHo wrote: Mooney's will be open until the new year! I read all of these posts stating Mooney's was gonna close at the end of this month, but no worries! They'll be open til' January 1st. Perhaps a mad New Years eve party should be planned/booked/made for the last hours of its existence. Sorry if that was posted on another board and I didn't read every posting on the thread. But the source is credible as hell. Looks like Jan. 2nd is the last day!

Definitive...not. The beer was flowing like wine today around noon at Mooney's.

Subject: On and On

I can't wait to attend Mooney's 10th anniversary going out of business celebration :P

so wait...
is mooney's alive or dead?

Subject: Mooney's baby

Humm.... anyone care to have another go at Mooney's this week?
8)

thank god it's still open! now i can not go there some more.

Mooney’s buys some time
By Dana Rubinstein
The Brooklyn Paper

In a last-ditch effort to save a Flatbush Avenue watering hole long enough to serve a few more rounds, a Prospect Heights bar-owner is adopting an unusual tactic, one involving, of all things, an article in The Brooklyn Paper.

Kevin Mooney, the owner of Mooney’s Pub, a 20-year-old Irish bar between Park and Sterling places, had been paying rent month-to-month for 15 of those years when, in October, he was served a notice of eviction from his landlord, Lina Fang.

Then, following the correct legal procedure, she sued Mooney for eviction.

But Jeffrey Saltiel, Mooney’s lawyer, said Fang erred when she then told The Brooklyn Paper that while Mooney’s had to leave, she was not, in fact, evicting that pub.

“We are not evicting anyone,” Fang was quoted in The Paper. “[Mooney’s is] leaving because they can’t afford the current rent.”

Saltiel said that single comment is the basis for Mooney’s case.

“I’m going to attack the eviction, saying that the notice is contradicted by the landlord’s statements to the press,” said Saltiel. “The notice has to be unequivocal. And this is clearly equivocal.”

Saltiel acknowledged that this was not the most traditional of attacks, but, “In some situations, it’s all you have.”

And according to Bob Dubno, a real estate attorney in Park Slope, what they have ain’t all that bad.

“The lawyer is being clever and is probably going to win on that,” said Dubno.

According to Dubno, once a landlord serves a tenant with a 30-day notice to evict, if the landlord does anything to contradict that legal document, like, say, collecting rent, or publicly contradicting herself to the press, then that 30-day notice is nullified.

But that doesn’t mean Mooney won’t be evicted. It just means he may be able to put it off for another 30 days.

Fang could not be reached for comment for this story. A man who answered the phone at her Flatbush Avenue liquor store said she was out of the country.

Mooney is counting on this slender hope.

“I’m trying to prolong it as long as I can,” said Mooney, who will be in court again on Monday. “And then I’ll have to kill it, I guess.

“Flatbush Avenue needs a Mooney’s pub.”


©2008 The Brooklyn Paper

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/2/31_02mooneyscloses.html

alafairnadia wrote: “Flatbush Avenue needs a Mooney’s pub.”

i don't know if that's the case, but one thing flatbush doesn't need is another vacant storefront like the one where video edge used to be because some landlord thinks she can get more rent.

would someone tell this woman there's a recession on?

I remember Mooneys well - used to hang out there a lot when I first moved to nyc (94-95). My mom actually was just asking me about it strangely enough.. as Id taken her there a couple time when she would come to visit! What a great f*ing bar. Ill be sad to see it gone.