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Neighbors push back as board weighs license for ticketed game-show bar at 302 Bowery
Summary
Longtime Bowery residents and a community board clashed over a new liquor license for an interactive, ticketed game-show venue at 302 Bowery. Neighbors cited noise, basement egress and zoning concerns; the applicant offered occupancy limits, soundproofing stipulations and to remove subwoofers.
A proposal to open an alcohol‑service, ticketed “game‑show” venue at 302 Bowery drew sharp criticism from neighbors at Manhattan Community Board 2 on Nov. 18 as applicants and residents debated noise, safety and zoning.
The venue’s counsel, Max Bookman, described the concept as a reservation‑based entertainment show with background music and a sealed game room. "This is not a nightlife operation," Bookman told the board, adding applicants planned to limit amplified sound to the enclosed game area and to avoid promoters, DJs and buyouts.
Longtime residents called those assurances insufficient. Colleen O'Connor Grant, who lives on the Bowery between Bleecker and Houston Streets, told the board that "if approved, this would be the seventh liquor license just on our block alone," and urged denial on public‑convenience and public‑safety grounds. James Sherry, a…
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