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Neighbors divided as Bar V seeks full-liquor license and earlier opening hours on Morton Street
Summary
Bar V’s owner offered to withdraw a sidewalk-cafe request and narrow other changes but kept a bid for full liquor and earlier opening hours, prompting months-long neighborhood debate and no immediate committee decision.
Bar V, a wine-focused neighborhood restaurant on Morton Street, pressed the Community Board 2 licensing committee Tuesday for a class change to allow full liquor service and to open earlier for lunch — while withdrawing a previously proposed sidewalk-cafe application.
The applicant’s attorney, Max Bookman, told the committee the owners had “eliminated the sidewalk cafe” request and dropped a request for later closing hours after neighbors objected, but were keeping a request to convert the restaurant’s license to allow distilled spirits and to open at 11 a.m. for lunch service rather than the current 2 p.m. opening. “We’ve taken it away,” Bookman said of the sidewalk-cafe submission, “and as a gesture of good faith to the community … we’ve withdrawn our application with DOT.”
The proposal prompted a…
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