The savior of one of the oldest bars in the city, which served as the backdrop for a scene in the 1990 mob classic “Goodfellas,” should be 86ed until he opens the books to his fellow shareholder, according to a lawsuit.
Andrew Bigan, 65, claims Loycent Gordon, who has been running the day-to-day operations at Neir’s Tavern in Woodhaven for years and spearheaded efforts to save the Queens watering hole, has shut him out of the business. The bar opened in 1829.
Bigan, a realtor, became a 25% shareholder in Neir’s in 2009 with his wife, Melanie, who ran Neir’s for a few years before stepping away in 2012 when she was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 2015.
Gordon took over a 75% stake in Neir’s around that time, buying out two other shareholders and running the place.
But despite keeping Neir’s going through tough times, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Gordon was looking to get out of the business in 2019, according to Bigan’s Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Gordon allegedly complained he was “always in the red” and “could never make enough money,” and asked Bigan to help him find someone to take over Neir’s, according to legal papers.
The following year, with no warning, Gordon announced Neir’s would close — prompting a public outcry and an $80,000 grant from the city to save it, Bigan claims.
The bar was ultimately saved, but Gordon then allegedly ignored Bigan’s calls and texts and shut him out of the bar’s social media accounts, Bigan charges in court papers.
“He just wants to know what’s going on, and also, to get some compensation, because he never gave up his status as a shareholder,” said Bigan’s lawyer, Susan Warnock. “He did offer to help over the years and it was kind of rebuffed.”
Gordon should be removed from the bar’s day-to-day operations and it should be run by a neutral third party, said Bigan, who said he’s not been paid anything since Gordon took over and wants a judge to order an accounting of the business.
15 comments:
Colonizer mindset !
No respect...
What a honorable man...
I’ve heard enough about this place. This guy is always crying and looking for hand outs to keep his shitty bar open and know he’s screwing partners out of their money. Time for him to go and let someone who knows how to be successful in the bar business run it.
A shitty little bar in a shitty little building and after nearly two hundred years they don’t even own the dump?
Typical Irish boozer priorities.
Rob in Manhattan.
Way too much drama over this place
Why does the city hand out grants to people who know near nothing about running a business.
What does a fireman, Rapper, Musician, Artist etc know about accounting and running a business and why is it these people get a lion share of all the grants.
Especially if they are black?
2: In all my years on this planet I have yet to know one restaurant or bar owner who HASN'T perpetually bitched about being in the red and not wanting to pay people "not making money" "I have 6 kids Its hard times in Ireland"
Anybody who loans $$ to a bar & restaurant and expects payment or profit shares back or WORSE becomes a partner is a f_ing fool.
All the banks on the planet already know this, and that's why restaurant & bar people cant go to banks unless they outright own a million dollar home to guarantee the funds. A bar paying rent rarely run on alcoholic beverages alone, you need to have food people in the area would want just to make the commercial rent and $1 million plus liability insurance in NYC.
Commercial insurance is wicked high wherever booze involved.
Add another 5 million liability if you have a mechanical bucking bull or pole dancing.
I know, seen all, heard every crock bullshit with these establishments because I used to play like music in bars as a teenager (Bass & Lead Guitar)
This partner is likely gonna have a big, long costly problem with little chance of ever seeing a dime or where the money went.
Bar & Restaurant owners are all mother~F-ckers in my opinion.
-Joe
Stinky Milk Manhattan said...
Bar ? I buy my alcohol & bags at the bodega then consume them in public !
@ Rob in Manhattan. Loycent Gordon is African American.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/190-year-old-nyc-bar-neirs-tavern-survives-covid-19/amp/
So now that we’ve established that he’s not Irish, Crazy Joe and Republican Rob can aim a fresh new rant @ the African Americans.
Roll on Thanksgiving!
What's that gobshite Rob in Manhattan talking about now ?
Gombeen man Rob showing his true colors again.
Prove Me Wrong...
"African Americans" "Irish boozers"
WORNG !! Gordon is Jamacian, As in from the Island of Jamacia!
Too add, I dont know any Jamacians capable of running a buisness.
UNPACK ALL THE MONEY TRANSFERS.
UNPACK ALL THE MONEY TRANSFERS does nothing, the DA will do nothing because this is a civil matter, liberal judge will side with the black person. The guy will claim bankruptcy and go back to Jamaica.
I cant believe taxpayer funds continue to be spent on bailing out failing banana republic run business's. What a
Black, or 3rd world immigrant -Grant cash rubber stamped, in days sometimes
If your White or Asian, 6 months red tape BS and review then "sorry no soup or bailout for you"
This racist mob of Woke city leadership sucks, yet I get called the racist.
I call them a bunch Wookies because thats exactly what they are including the governor.
If it quacks and looks like a duck its sure not the Easter Bunny
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