Union Hall Succumbs to Boozy Park Slope Stroller Rage
That didn't take long. After enduring a week of controversy about its ban on strollers and scampering toddlers, not to mention significant mommy rage, Union Hall is beating a modified retreat. This week's Brooklyn Paper reports that upon careful consideration Park Slope parents and their spawn can hang out, have a sip of whatever and play some bocce. The bar's owner says that strollers can come back "a few afternoons a week" and says the original decision "was strictly liability." He went on to explain:
A lot of parents are great and mindful. But some are not that attentive to their kids when they’re in here. This is a bar with an open stairwell and a bocce court. This is a business and we don’t have the staff to police it.
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A minor controversy has broken out in Park Slope, where popular bi-level bocce ball bar Union Hall has suddenly reversed its policy of granting admittance to the small children that come attached to so many Slopers nowadays. Gowanus Lounge has the details, and apparently the story first broke on the Park Slope Parents list. According to GL:
The word comes via a Union Hall employee that says the bar and popular hangout has been having issues with minors being sent in as bait by the police without ID. They have apparently been threatened with closure if anyone under 21 is found on the premises. (Actually minors are legally okay if they are with a parent or guardian.) Infants are still allowed, but any kids that are old enough to walk are out as are strollers because of "fire codes."
Needless to say, a heated discussion on the topic is currently burning up the
Brooklynian board, tackling matters such as the appropriateness of bringing children to bars, as well as the nonstop stream of kvetching Park Slope parents. Writes one poster, "Oh please dear god not this conversation."
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That didn't take long. After enduring a week of controversy about its ban on strollers and scampering toddlers, not to mention significant mommy rage, Union Hall is beating a modified retreat. This week's Brooklyn Paper reports that upon careful consideration Park Slope parents and their spawn can hang out, have a sip of whatever and play some bocce. The bar's owner says that strollers can come back "a few afternoons a week" and says the original decision "was strictly liability." He went on to explain:
