Save Coogan's
Earlier this week, the Times reported that Coogan's bar as well as restaurant volition endure forced to unopen at the halt of May later beingness inwards concern since 1985. The closure volition happen, wrote Jim Dwyer, "for the park horrible reasons, the halt of a lease as well as impossible rent demands for a novel one."
Coogan's space, at 169th as well as Broadway, is owned yesteryear New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “They desire nearly $40,000 a calendar month more,” said i of Coogan's partners. That's a lot of beer.
This loss is hitting abode amongst many New Yorkers, including Broadway luminary as well as Inwood native Lin-Manuel Miranda, who tweeted the announcement, proverb "My tum hurts from this news":
Graham Ciraulo, an organizer amongst the Northern Manhattan Is Not For Sale coalition, started a petition to Save Coogan's. Over 10,000 accept signed thence far.
And there's a rally at Coogan's this Sunday, Jan 14, at 12:00 noon, organized yesteryear Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, as well as other community leaders.
Whether yous know Coogan's or yous don't know Coogan's, yous know it's simply about other brick inwards the wall of the sterilized, de-urbanized, hyper-gentrified zone that New York is becoming thank yous to unregulated landlord greed.
If you're sick as well as tired of that, thence endure there. And tell our city's leaders to brand a existent modify -- pass the Small Business Jobs Survival Act as well as let's beak nearly bringing dorsum commercial rent control. It's fourth dimension to #SaveNYC.
*UPDATE: Coogan's has been saved!
Coogan's space, at 169th as well as Broadway, is owned yesteryear New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “They desire nearly $40,000 a calendar month more,” said i of Coogan's partners. That's a lot of beer.
This loss is hitting abode amongst many New Yorkers, including Broadway luminary as well as Inwood native Lin-Manuel Miranda, who tweeted the announcement, proverb "My tum hurts from this news":
Graham Ciraulo, an organizer amongst the Northern Manhattan Is Not For Sale coalition, started a petition to Save Coogan's. Over 10,000 accept signed thence far.
And there's a rally at Coogan's this Sunday, Jan 14, at 12:00 noon, organized yesteryear Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, as well as other community leaders.
Whether yous know Coogan's or yous don't know Coogan's, yous know it's simply about other brick inwards the wall of the sterilized, de-urbanized, hyper-gentrified zone that New York is becoming thank yous to unregulated landlord greed.
If you're sick as well as tired of that, thence endure there. And tell our city's leaders to brand a existent modify -- pass the Small Business Jobs Survival Act as well as let's beak nearly bringing dorsum commercial rent control. It's fourth dimension to #SaveNYC.
*UPDATE: Coogan's has been saved!
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