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Greenpoint's Coco 66 Raided, Owner Arrested, Booze Poured Out
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John Del Signore
Published Jul 15, 2011
Modified Jul 15, 2011
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The dark and funky hipster bar and music venue Coco 66 on Greenpoint Avenue was the scene of a dramatic raid last weekend, according to reports on New York Shitty and Paper. It seems owner David Kelleran has been operating without a liquor license, and local police tell New York Shitty that the precinct "did a joint operation Saturday with the State Liquor Authority... The owner was arrested and all the liquor was order destroyed by the SLA." According to one observer, $20,000 worth of precious, life-sustaining liquor was poured down the drain!
This isn't the first bad break for the Greenpoint bar; last fall Kelleran was slapped with a vacate order after an event went over capacity and it was discovered that the space was not up to fire code. The promoter for that show, Seva Granik, says that Kelleran lost his liquor license some time after the vacate order, and that he'd been trying to sell booze under the liquor license for the adjacent restaurant (Coco 68).
Granik also tells Paper that Kelleran had been buying his booze retail from liquor stores, and adds, "They'll never get a liquor license there again. [Kelleran's] family owns the building, so no one is going to buy it from him and get a license. It's majorly screwed, for many years at least." Calls to Coco 66 have not been returned. [Via Eater]
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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