Mamajuana Cover My Ears!
OVER the last few years, Upper Manhattan has traded some of the problems of poverty for those of increasing if uneven wealth. To the list of new irritants, some might add this one: noisy restaurants.
Mamajuana, a somberly elegant Dominican-Spanish bar and restaurant in Washington Heights where a skirt steak goes for $22, is popular with politicians, local celebrities and even the occasional New York Yankee. And it hopes to become even more popular. In the two years since it opened, Mamajuana has had 26 outdoor tables during the summer, but on March 25, Community Board 12 voted to let the restaurant nearly triple that number, to 75. The request will now go to the Department of Consumer Affairs, and then to the City Council.
The community board’s decision infuriated the restaurant’s immediate neighbors, who have long complained about noise from Mamajuana, which stays open until at least 2 every morning.
Read the whole article: New York Times.
Stumble It!