1492 on Clinton Street Closes

GOOD RIDDANCE! Bad enough these shi-shi rackets impose their class-war oppression on what is still a significantly working-class neighborhood, but the very name “1492″ is a racist insult to injury, referencing as it does that genocidal mass-murderer columbus and asserting that the owners of this blood-sucking enterprise are some kind of “pioneers” (in other words, white invaders) in a thriving community still consisting of long-established & considerable numbers of Latino & Chinese residents, who are obviously not considered to be people by anyone who would dare disrespect this community by opening a business whose very name relates to such a brutal “discovery.” Were the owners so ignorant in naming their restaurant that they hadn’t even realized that they were far from the first non-Latino/Chinese presence (though the LES is well-known historically for its large Ashkenazi population that predates the Latino entry into the ‘hood) in this neighborhood?

-LES resident since 1984, Clinton St. resident since 1992