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One of the more fireworks-filled Community Board 6 meetings in recent memory took place on Thursday night while the Brooklyn Blogfest event was going on. The topic was Park Slope’s Union Hall and its liquor license. The scheduling meant that fewer bloggers were probably on hand to take in the show than might otherwise have been the case. But there were enough, like our friends from Brownstoner and Gothamist, to ensure that the event was covered quite thoroughly. The Community Board committee ending up voting against the renewal of the Union Hall license and the extent of neighborhood hatred of the venue as well as strong support from patrons became clear. As always, one’s position about a nightspot is generally a relative thing, determined by whether one is a neighbor listening to drunken hooting and hollering at 3AM or whether one enjoys going to the venue to hang out, drink and scream 3AM. Person One is probably driven to the brink of insanity while Person Two is figuring the place is really cool. A lot of other people–call them Persons 3-Infinity–are somewhere in the middle, depending on their feeling about NYC nightlife and/or urban noise.

Here are links to some of the coverage:
· Scold Scuttle Union Hall at CB6 Meeting [Gothamist]
· Community Board Moving to Nuke Union Hall [Brownstoner]
· Eugene Mirman Stands Up Against His Neighbors [Gothamist]
· Drying of NYC: CB6 Drops Hammer on Union Hall [Eater]
· Union Hall Liquor License Debate Proves Park Slope is for Wussies [CHB]