NYC Liquor Licenses

Robert Halpern, a lawyer and lifelong resident of the East Village, has petitioned the state’s Liquor Authority to quit handing out so many liquor...

Facing sky-high rent, a famed Christopher Street gay bar is struggling to find a new home.

As Williamsburg gives way to chain shops and ostentatious high-rises, Bushwick has rapidly become the spot for nightlife in North Brooklyn. But with so...

Neighbors have filed suit against the New York State Liquor Authority in an effort to keep Chumley’s, once a favorite watering hole of the...

The owners of Uncle Barry’s sports bar in Park Slope have given up their plan to open a bar in Prospect Heights amid a...

New York-based party promoter Ibiza United is bringing the New York outpost of Sankeys night club to the former home of club District 36...

Restaurteurs and bar owners looking to open up shop on the Lower East Side no longer have to meet with a block association vehemently...

In Williamsburg, laid back drinking culture is such an important part of the neighborhood economy that even clothing retailers are vying for the ability...

Long-time residents of the Lower East Side may feel they are plagued with too many bars, but in Harlem tough liquor laws may be...

New York’s longstanding law that prohibits granting liquor licenses to establishments within 200 feet of a school or place of worship is being reconsidered...

Downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn community boards are changing the retail landscape for the city’s most venerable neighborhood. The New York Post reported that more...

A Greenpoint landlord has been coerced into converting his ground-floor restaurant space into an apartment, the Brooklyn Paper reported, as community opposition to additional...

Along with all the new hotels and residential developments rising in the formerly crime-infested Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, liquor licenses are also on the rise....

Developer Ross Morgan is angling to turn his former Nolita carriage house into a high-end restaurant and ritzy apartments. According to DNAinfo, Morgan received...

Another strip club may be coming to Long Island City, whether local community board members like it or not. GLC Entertainment, the company that...