Coming Soon: Moldy Fig at 178 Stanton Street

I’m currently involved with the development and opening of Moldy Fig and am extremely pleased to declare that your reader was correct!

Though it’s true the site is relatively quiet as we get all our licenses, permits, and other i-dotting/t-crossing in order, there will indeed be a jazz club at 178 Stanton St. with a beer & wine bar, a small plate menu, pool, ping pong, chess, shuffleboard, Scrabble, and some of the best jazz in New York City! We anticipate opening in the late spring.

Anyone in the neighborhood who’d like to learn more about Moldy Fig is welcome to swing by 178 Stanton, as there is often someone there while we prepare to open. We hosted a neighborhood meet & greet earlier in the month to give the community an opportunity to get to know us, and we made some fabulous new friends with our neighbors. We look forward to doing the same with everyone in the LES!

Honestly?..It was shocking and depressing to hear that this place will be opening on our block of Stanton Street! This is one of the few ‘quiet’ blocks in the immediate area..[bar and restaurant-wise]..So to learn that a jazz and game[?] club will be here is beyond our worst nightmare!!

On one side of that location is an old [active] synagogue and on the other side is the building where I live. Just when things seemed to be getting pretty good here..with trees even being planted on the block!..word comes down of this impending catasrophe!! [We had other bars here years ago..and it was a nightmare..with the cops being called constantly!!]..We just cannot seem to catch a break!!..we take one step forward..and 2 steps back!

I hope it doesn’t change the ‘quality of life’ on our block..because if it does..it will not only create a big problem for those of us who live here?..but also for the bar.