Nets fans moved one step closure last night to being able to drown their sorrows in beer, wine and hard spirits as a local panel voted unanimously to approve a liquor license for the Barclays Center arena. Community Board 2 rubber-stamped a committee’s approval one night earlier of the license in exchange for promises to [...]
ABC Law 64(7)(b) states that no retail liquor license for on-premises consumption may be granted for any establishment within five hundred feet of three or more existing liquor licenses. However, ABC Law 64(7)(f) provides a discretionary exception to this rule stating that the SLA may grant an on-premise liquor license for an establishment which violates [...]
Even though New Year’s is still three months away, we’ve been getting many calls regarding All Night Permits which allow a licensee to sell alcohol through the night until 8AM. Unfortunately, the SLA can not issue this permit for New Year’s 2012 because New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday. Section 106(5)(a) prohibits alcoholic [...]
Following a hearing at the SLA, an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) found that a police officer observed a patron at Albany Manor, a tavern, smoking a marijuana cigarette. The ALJ sustained the charge of disorderly premises [ABC Law 106(6)] and the SLA revoked the tavern’s liquor license and imposed a forfeiture of a $1,000 bond. [...]
In it written denial dated December 28, 2009, the SLA denied Rose’s removal application because there were five liquor stores within 2.2 miles of the mall. One of the stores was just .25 miles from the mall. According to the SLA, the stores were already competing for business and it would be poor judgment to [...]
On May 30, 2007, less than two months after obtaining their liquor license, MONJU was the subject of an unannounced inspection conducted by several NYC agencies including the SLA. The inspection revealed that the establishment did not conform to the diagram submitted with its original liquor license application. MONJU admitted to having expanded the premises [...]
Although the SLA has the discretionary power to deny an application “for good cause shown” [ABC Law 64(1)], such power may not cross the line into speculation and conjecture. In one case, the SLA denied an establishment, Mickey Rats, a liquor license due to its concern that the sole officer and stockholder was not the [...]
ABC Law 64(7)(b) states that no retail liquor license for on-premises consumption may be granted for any establishment within five hundred feet of three or more existing liquor licenses. However, ABC Law 64(7)(f) provides a discretionary exception to this rule stating that the SLA may grant an on-premise liquor license for an establishment which violates [...]
