Freddy's Bar Re-Opens in South Slope

Freddy’s, a beloved dive bar shoved out of Dean Street by Bruce Ratner’s dick, gets reborn today in South Slope in the old Ellis bar space at 627 5th Ave (between 17th and 18th).

It joins a friendly little family of bars—literally: the owners of Black Horse, South, Buttermilk, et al. are all best buds and frequent each others’ places...which you might notice if you also liquor up there. It’s really kind of cute. I imagine Freddy’s will do the same, or risk shunning by the in-crowd. The new owners are former employees of the old place, but they’ve got the same name and a lot of the old interior (including the "chains of justice" used in the Atlantic Yards fight).

Anyway, a big old dive party happens today, Friday the 4th, with music, art and probably a lot of people slant rhyming “Bruce” with a female hygienic device.

(via Brooklyn Based)

TOTAL MIND FUCK: BROOKLYN THEMED BAR OPENS IN MANHATTAN

photo: Joshua Bright for the NYTIgnore the attempted subway suicides, hop on the train and get your ass into Manhattan. There lies quaint “local” bar The Brooklyneer, full of plentiful goods from our wonderful nabe: Boerum Hill made ricotta, Carroll Gardens canned jam, and Greenpoint Kombucha.

When you’re done vomiting from the thought of Greenpoint-brewed fungi, give a blowjob to the Urban Farmers in your life, because without them the Brooklyneer wouldn’t serve Park Slope’s finest asphyxiated geese plated up with some adorable pickles.

OMG! This bar reminds me of this other bar I know where you can drink tons of beer from the Brooklyn Brewery! it's called the Brooklyn Brewery. Located in fucking Brooklyn.

Apparently, a “Brooklyneer” is someone who admires Brooklyn. I guess not enough to actually live here.

FUCKWADS.

(via NYT)

DRUNK IN PARK SLOPE

Time Out New York's latest issue tallies up the best winter bars/drinks through a creepy-cool pictorial with the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. 

Several Park Slope bars made the list, including the Double Windsor in the "Best Bar for Dark Beer" category, Beer Table in the "Best Bar for Group Drinks" category, and Union Hall in the "Best Fireplace Bar" category. 

The cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson was even shot hanging out by the fireplace at Union Hall.  The shot, however, is unexplicably free of the tiny children that are usually swarming around it. 

Cheers! 

A Vote For Julio Is A Vote For Park Slope

Right. So while everyone is focused on this whole election thingy, I'm focused on another rully rully important voting matter...namely Metromix's Best NYC Bartender competish.

As it happens, MY FAVORITE-IST bartender in all of NYC has been nominated! And his ass works right here in Park Slope at the Bell House! So like if he wins, Park Slope will be the best place in NYC to live AND the best place in NYC to get plastered!

LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN PPL!

Vote for Julio here. And then vote for him again at work when you're accessing the site from a diff IP address. Then maybe stop in the Apple Store and vote for him one last time just for good measure.

He's close to taking over the lead and we need all you btchz in order to make this happen. You don't even need to register or any shit like that.

YES.

WE.

CAN!

Great Lakes is Anti-Great Lakes

FIPS reader Paul is non too pleased with the beer selection at Great Lakes. Here's why:

Park Slope has 43 bars, according to New York Magazine, making it second only to Williamsburg (in Brooklyn), which has 77. While this seems like it could only be great news for our Park Slope alcohol enthusiasts, not surprisingly, many Park Slope bars seem to have an identity crisis. I’ll start with Great Lakes.

I’ll be honest; I go to bars for three reasons: to drink, hook up, and escape the summer heat because I’m a writer and a jazz musician, so I’m clearly too busy saving money for much-needed booze to afford A/C. Naturally, I’ve been spending a lot of time at the bars of our lovely garden district this summer, having just moved here in July from the city. Being a Great Laker myself, hailing originally from Michigan, my Minnesota roommate and I recently decided to finally check out Great Lakes. Only, did you know that Great Lakes doesn't have a single fucking Great Lake beer on draft!?

Don’t they think the midwest you snobby east coasters always make fun of brews good beer? In a New York Times beer tasting from earlier this year, the No. 1 and No. 4 beers, out of 20, were both from Dexter, Michigan: the Oro de Calabaza, from Jolly Pumpkin; and the Good Harbor Golden Ale, from Leelanau.

So Great Lakes is fucked up. But what’s even more fucked up is that you could walk across the street to the stellar High Dive during the month of July to find beers from Jolly Pumpkin and Atwater -- a Detroit brewery -- on draft. Walk south to Barbes, and you’ll find the kicks-the-shit-out-of-any-Brooklyn-Brewery-beer Founders Rye P.A., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, on draft. The High Dive and Barbes are respectively crushing it, not only with beer, but with free popcorn and basically free live music (suggested donation).

I’ll be back to report on the other 40 or so bars in Park Slope that I haven’t belittled here yet. Maybe Union Hall will be up next -- I know I’m new here, but what the fuck is up with their Dave and Busters meets Mystery Theater vibe?

Is Paul alone or does anyone else give a shit about this Great Lakes/Great Lakes sitch?