Sunday, August 30, 2020

Riis Park Beach Bazaar is getting cancelled



Rockaway Times

 
Riis Park Beach Bazaar (RPBB) immediately helped revitalize Riis Park when it secured a lease to run the concessions at the park that offered little to visitors for decades. That was five years ago. Since then, the group has offered a wide variety or food vendors, beach rental equipment, live entertainment and even year round indoor dining (in pre-Covid times). Many locals have found employment with the company as well.

And now the lease is up. The five-year lease is due to expire November 1, just a couple of months from now. The lease does not have a renewal clause and NPS says the “park plans to release a competitive solicitation in early Fall 2020, to lease facilities at Riis for similar purposes.”

Chalk up another bust for this hipster culture entrepreneurial collective. Thanks for the memories

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pretty cool that the lease ended during hoaxvid 19

Anonymous said...

Moe said...
Great less man buns on the beach next year.

Anonymous said...

Remember this is a federal beach, not NYC or NYS.

JQ LLC said...

Last anon:

I made sure to acknowledge that when I wrote those stories.

Anonymous said...

Betcha any new lease goes to Trump organization.

Anonymous said...

Trump Beach I like that !

JQ LLC said...

Anon 4 re: Trump

That's what I was thinking too. It's ironic that the Bazaar was used to make the area more high end and it will wind up killing themselves, leading the beach more certain for privatization by an org that's even worse. Just last week the park just enacted more strict rules and a 9 pm closing time.


Anon 5: Or Biden beach. This is why privatization sucks.

Anonymous said...

BooFuckingHoo!

JQ LLC said...

22 bucks for a lobster hoagie. Yeesh.

Anonymous said...

QC Reader said...
I miss Playland, Bungalows, and Dingy Dans !

Anonymous said...

elitist scene disguised as hipsters. Merely a bunch of DFD's.
glad they will be gone.

Anonymous said...

Where will the bearded, man bunned masses go

Post a Comment