Phil’s Crummy Corner says patrons have to be 25 or older to drink at the bar on the weekends after locals in Brooklyn complained.
“Right now, we do 25 and up,” owner Phil Marcano told the New York Post. But he stipulated that “sometimes if we know a person, we let them in, but if they’re under 25, we don’t serve them.”
“Anybody can come in the restaurant anytime they want,” he told the paper. “If the bartenders check their ID and want to serve them, they can. We don’t bar people. We just mention [25 and up] just to keep it on the safe side,” he added.
A restaurant manager, Isabel Santiago, told DNAinfo New York that locals have been complaining about noisy crowds of people, beer bottles in the street, and people being rowdy. As a result, she said, the bar is raising the age limit to 25.
“Their quality of life is our concern,” Santiago told the website and added that Phil’s is working to create a “quiet family place.”
Locals have said parties at the bar last until sometimes as late as 4 a.m.
“You will be shocked about the number of conversations you can hear from my bed. Friday and Saturday nights, it’s like animal town,” one resident was quoted as saying.
On Yelp, there was only one review.
“Not only do they have brooklyn summer ale on tap in early Arpil, its on sale here- very strange, also a bar in brooklyn showing Baseball on TV- borderline even stranger., thrid, I came in with 2 girls and they didnt get jeered at- just some very polite words in Espanol were exchanged when we walked in,” wrote user, Andrzejz K., who gave the establishment three stars out of five.
Locals at the Community Board 6 and the 76th Precinct meeting on Monday said the bar has received dozens of complaints.
The bar, however, might run into problems because under Title 8 of the city administrative code, its unlawful to discriminate against people based on age.
