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Do You Have Children or Someone Else In Your Home Whose Wellbeing Will Be Affected By The Expansion Of This Bar?

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There’s no question about it. Almost everyone we talked to in the neighborhood these past 2 weeks dislikes Earl’s for the current street noise, and for the current cigarette smoking of Earl’s customers, who stand outside the bar, puffing away, completely oblivious as their smoke and chatter are wafting up to and into the windows of the apartments above  and around them.

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If the potential expansion of Earl’s into the adjoining backyard is approved, your entire sense of wellbeing as well as your sleep will be even more disrupted by the noise, cigarette, food, and beer odors coming from the additional bar customers in the backyard. And more customers in the backyard means more of Earl’s customers hanging out in the front on Park Avenue, with even more chatter and smoke billowing into the windows of the apartments above.

Who knows, maybe Earl’s will soon have a velvet rope-line with a doorman and a bouncer…and a fancy ashtray / concrete plant potter…

Back to reality:

If you have a newborn or infant who needs regular rest, or if you have school-age children whose ability to concentrate on their studies after school will be disrupted by the noise in the backyard, and who will not be able to get a good, quiet, restful, full nights sleep from the noise and smells coming in their windows from the bar in the backyard, we need to hear from you.

If you or someone living with you is pregnant, or is being treated for high blood pressure, stress, or other ailments where a lack of regular, uninterrupted rest and peace and quiet could affect your or their health, we need to hear from you.

If you know a neighbor who fits the above description, PLEASE show them this page and please have them get in touch with us ASAP.

We can be  reached at 9798lexpark@gmail.com or by phone at 929-286-1913.

Don’t delay. The Community Board 11 meeting to approve or disapprove the expansion of this bar is TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21.

We need to hear from you now, especially if you have children and/or health concerns.

We need your signatures on the online petitions and on the hard copy petitions.

And we need you to know if you can show up at the Community Board Meeting.  

If you have specific quality of life and/or health issues that will be affected by this bar expanding intruding into the shared air of our backyards, please contact us 9798lexpark@gmail.com or by phone at 929-286-1913.

Sincerely,

Your 97-98 Lex & Park Neighbors.

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UPDATED: Sign the Petition: Plan To Attend Community Board 11’s OCTOBER 1st Meeting: Stop Noisy Bars From Expanding Into Our Backyards.

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Click on image above to enlarge: see which buildings will be affected by noisy drunks, kitchen odors, and cigarettes from Earl’s Beer and Cheese expanding in the backyard at 1259 Park Ave. (97th & 98th).

“BREAKING NEWS” Community Board 11  has advised us that Earl’s has withdrawn their application (to expand into the backyard at 1259 Park Avenue) from the September 3rd meeting, and that they plan to re–present it WEDNESDAY, October 1, at 6 PM.

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97-98 LexPark Neighbors still need to sign the Petitions, AND be prepared for Wednesday October 1 at 6 PM to attend the October meeting at Community Board 11, 1664 Park Avenue, between 117th and 118th Streets, to oppose the expansion of Earl’s Beer and Cheese into the backyard behind 1259 Park Avenue, between 97th and 98th Streets.
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Even if you do not live in or immediately adjacent to 1259 Park, YOUR BUILDING WILL BE EXPOSED TO THE NOISE, cooking smells and cigarette smoke; and if this bar is allowed to expand, our 97-98 Lexington/Park Avenue neighborhood will turn into a haven for loud, late night bars with crowds and noise.

Don’t we have enough noise from the ambulances, the buses stacked up on Park Avenue, and the cross-town traffic across 97th Street? Do we have to stay up all night listening to people “partying” till 2 AM every night?

Click on this link and listen to how loud it is at Earl’s with only a handful of customers

Community Board 11 can refuse permission for the expansion, if they hear from enough neighbors whose quality of life will be heavily diminished by the noise, cigarette smoke, and the rowdy crowds that this bar expansion will bring.

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Earls Beer & Cheese LLC d/b/a Earl’s Beer & Cheese. Alteration of existing partial liquor license (#1270518) at 1259 Park Avenue to include outdoor seating.

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Are you excited about a beer joint in the backyard adjacent to your bedroom windows?

Are you looking forward to hearing intoxicated people shouting and laughing outside your windows, blasting music and cigarette smoke? Impatient to hear the clinking and clamor of beer bottles and glasses all through the night, as you try and rest from your stressful job, or as you or your kids try and study for an exam?

Re the photo above, the red arrows show you the 13 buildings whose rear apartments either surround the backyard or are adjacent and share horizontal air and noise exposure with it. Over a dozen buildings with hundreds of neighbors in rear-apartments face ether directly into the above yard, or their rear yards abut and share the air (and sights, sounds and smells) with Earl’s proposed backyard bar expansion.

Add in the high rise at 1510 Lexington, hundreds more neighbors will be within a few hundred feet of the shared airspace leading to the expanded outdoor bar, with the noise echoing through the narrow canyon of the backs of those brick and masonry buildings. FYI, they have already started gutting the backyard and changing the grade without any building permits, showing their contempt for their neighbors’ safety, and for the law… Not a good sign of their future conduct.

Talk to your neighbors tonight and tomorrow, and have them sign the online and hard copy petitions as soon as possible.

Prepare your neighbors to come to the CB meeting in early October (sign up for email alerts and check back for the exact date) and say “NO” to turning our block into a mecca for beer joints and singles bars.

Remember, even if you don’t live directly on top of or adjacent to 1259 Park, if we don’t stop this one, the next one could be directly under your window.

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