A street in Woodhaven has been co-named after historic neighborhood bar Neir’s Tavern.
The corner of 78th Street and 88th Avenue was co-named “Neir’s Tavern Way” during a ceremony Saturday hosted by Council Member Robert Holden. The establishment, located at 87-48 78th St., is credited by some historians as being the oldest bar in New York City.
Holden passed legislation earlier this year to designate the street corner “Neir’s Tavern Way.” The watering hole is about to celebrate its 192nd year in business.
The bar was in danger of shutting down in early 2020 when owner Loycent Gordon was unable to reach an agreement with his landlord when his lease was up for renewal. Several elected officials and community leaders stepped in to save the bar and a new lease was negotiated.
“I’m very proud of how our community came together to save this storied establishment and to further preserve its place in Queens history with the street co-naming,” Holden said in a statement.
9 comments:
I got a beer and a BJ there right before the COVID lockdown... Prove me wrong!😁
Why a street? Why not name a bicycle lane after them?
I have nothing for or against this tavern, but this renaming-of-streets business is totally stupid. Just like the renaming of perfectly good bridge and road names to "honor" some worthless politician or whoever else. It's a sign of a decadent and failing culture.
"I got a beer and a BJ" Good for you !
We need to assign second names to each street and in multiple languages to build a more equitable city
192 Years open and they still couldn't buy that shitty little building?
How many landlords have croaked or sold during that period and these happy drunks are still paying "The Leech".
That's the Irish for you.
Rob in Manhattan
To SeerofZog:
Speaking of worthless, uncensored, free walking criminal-politicians, when are We, the People going to see the TAPPAN ZEE Bridge back to its original signage that was defaced, desecrated and vandalized by the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge (Too Far?) that was NOT publicly authorized?
That filthy, dynastic government namesake-SCOURGE itself (CUOMIGULA) has completely collapsed New York State accountability, transparency, ethics, integrity and involuntarily replaced it all with a never-ending loop of corruption, graft and monstrous greed, with a vengeful impunity that remains unprecedented, to date. The OTHER lethal SCOURGE who infected (INFESTED!) City Hall is the OTHER half of anarchy, Mayor Chirlane de BLASS-hole (and her Minstrel Show wannabe Vaudeville Act) that forced (mostly) White, former residents of New York to rapidly move, EN MASS, to Florida, South Carolina and beyond——and they will NEVER come back, leaving, sadly, the dumbest part of DemonRat-entrenched voters to keep reinforcing an exclusionary, party-machine-failed leadership that has continually hastened their own powerless, imploding, peasant like demise——yet, they are loathe to halt these self-destructive, obliterating practices that will only continue to ravage and tonsure this erstwhile Empire State——until the Empire decays into a pillar of salt——exactly, and ironically like the once towering 'Triumph of Civic Virtue' that all three, former female borough presidents willfully neglected their ficuciary obligations to repair, conserve and preserve this precious work of Queens County art (that now presides over a Brooklyn graveyard, among the dead), and public referendum and due process be damned (again and STILL).
To SeerofZog:
Speaking of worthless, uncensored, free walking criminal-politicians, when are We, the People going to see the TAPPAN ZEE Bridge back to its original signage that was defaced, desecrated and vandalized by the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge (Too Far?) that was NOT publicly authorized?
That filthy, dynastic government namesake-SCOURGE itself (CUOMIGULA) has completely collapsed New York State accountability, transparency, ethics, integrity and involuntarily replaced it all with a never-ending loop of corruption, graft and monstrous greed, with a vengeful impunity that remains unprecedented, to date. The OTHER lethal SCOURGE who infected (INFESTED!) City Hall is the OTHER half of anarchy, Mayor Chirlane de BLASS-hole (and her Minstrel Show wannabe Vaudeville Act) that forced (mostly) White, former residents of New York to rapidly move, EN MASS, to Florida, South Carolina and beyond——and they will NEVER come back, leaving, sadly, the dumbest part of DemonRat-entrenched voters to keep reinforcing an exclusionary, party-machine-failed leadership that has continually hastened their own powerless, imploding, peasant like demise——yet, they are loathe to halt these self-destructive, obliterating practices that will only continue to ravage and tonsure this erstwhile Empire State——until the Empire decays into a pillar of salt——exactly, and ironically like the once towering 'Triumph of Civic Virtue' that all three, former female borough presidents willfully neglected their ficuciary obligations to repair, conserve and preserve this precious work of Queens County art (that now presides over a Brooklyn graveyard, among the dead), and public referendum and due process be damned (again and STILL).
To SeerofZog, it's a ceremonial street co-naming. That means just one sign gets added to one pole. It's NOT a renaming of the street. Mixing co-naming with re-naming, like the renaming of the Ed Koch bridge, is just plain dumb.
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