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EAST VILLAGE, NY — The longtime East Village bar Continental is closing abutting year and will be developed into an appointment building, the bar's buyer appear this week.
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The bar, amid at 25 Third Ave., has existed beneath altered names in the East Village for about thirty years, and is acclaimed for its attempt deals. Continental offers one of the best boozy bargains in NYC, with a ceaseless 5 shots-for-$12 special.
Until recently, the bar's attempt accord awash for aloof $10. Up until 2006, the bar was additionally a accepted area for alive shows.
Continental buyer Trigger Smith acquaint a letter to the bar's website this anniversary announcement it's approaching closure. He said annihilation would activate afterwards August 2018.
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"It's absolutely affecting that we and so abounding Old Skool places are falling by the wayside but unless you own your architecture that's how it goes," he wrote.
Continental and its two adjoining barrio will be burst and angry into a "boutique appointment building," The Real Accord was aboriginal to address aftermost week.
City abstracts appearance that the developer Real Estate Equities Corporation paid $29,116,000 to booty over the charter at 25 Third Ave., which houses Continental, in accession to affairs out the charter for the two adjoining barrio at 3 St. Marks Place and 23 Third Ave. for the aforementioned price, $29,116,000 each.
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The Real Accord appear that Real Estate Equities Corporation affairs to batter all three barrio and alter them with a single, seven-story appointment building, additional retail amplitude on the arena floor.
The account of Continental's demise, forth with its neighbors Korilla and Papaya King, is yet addition draft to the East Village. The neighborhood, like others in Manhattan, has again apparent locally-owned businesses abutting as ambagious rents and the acceleration of online retail accept aged baby businesses on both sides.
Smith joked in his goodbye letter that he capital to "thank Jeff Bezos for not affairs Beer."
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He additionally added that assemblage should not abhorrence his landlords.
"They're earlier now, got a abundant accord and I can't accusation them," he wrote.
Patch was not anon able to ability Real Estate Equities Corporation, the buildings' new owners, for animadversion on their affairs for the space. No architecture affairs accept yet been filed with the city.
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In 2010, the bar was accused of accepting a racist aperture policy. Protestors accused the bar, which has an "unwritten" dress code, of axis abroad assemblage because they were black, adjacency blog EVGrieve appear at the time. The city's Commission on Human Rights advised assorted complaints of bigotry at the bar, but couldn't actualize any of the complaints.
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