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MEMBER:
Bar owner gets
a reprieve after
expanded hours
are denied
Marisa Joy Davis stands behind the bar at Kirvens. Davis opened the bar at 736 Lydig Avenue in Pelham Park about two years
ago. Davis was recently denied by Community Board 11 to extend the bar’s hours. Photo by Kyle Vuille/Schneps Media
BY KYLE VUILLE
Community Board 11 has
agreed to review its decision to
deny a Pelham Parkway bar owner
an extension of hours at the next
full board meeting.
Marisa Joy Davis has been
greeted with pushback from the
community board since she fi rst
opened her bar, Kirvens, at 736 Lydig
Avenue about two years ago,
she claimed.
In 2017 Davis converted a former
clothing store into a bar, but
her State Liquor Authority liquor
license application received a ‘denial’
recommendation from the
community board.
Undeterred by the vote she then
presented the SLA a 500-signature
petition in support of the bar. The
SLA then overruled the board’s
decision and Kirvens opened.
Two years later, Davis is once
again at loggerheads with the
board.
On Wednesday, January 15,
Davis appeared before CB 11’s
Economic Development Subcommittee
to support her request to extend
the bar’s Sunday to Wednesday
hours to 3 a.m. and to 4 a.m.
Thursday to Saturday.
CB 11 denied the request, stating
the 49th Precinct provided details
about two incidents that occurred
at the establishment this
past New Year’s Day.
After the denial Davis complained
that the subcommittee did
not give her adequate time to explain
the nature of the phone calls
to the 49th regarding the incidents
and the board never asked her to
explain the matter either.
“Two phone calls (to the police)
in two years, I should get an award
for that, honestly,” Davis said.
“How many bars in NYC can say
the same?”
The head of the Economical
Development Subcommittee, Joseph
Thompson, said the committee
had not reviewed any police
reports themselves, but took law
enforcement’s word on the nature
of the incidents in determining its
denial recommendation.
“We have to be reasonably sure
that the person operates a solid
business and a hundred percent
cooperates with police and properly
reports situations,” Thompson
said.
Davis asked that the board, in
light of her objections, reconsider
its vote.
“It’s important to me that another
businessman or woman
comes into this neighborhood,
they don’t have to deal with the
same things I’m dealing with,” Davis
said.
Davis feels all bars in CB 11
aren’t treated the same.
“I can go less than a mile down
the street, Morris Park Avenue,
and it is riddled with bars open
late.”
On Tuesday, February 11, after
consulting with the CB 11 district
manager Jeremy Warneke and the
49th Precinct Community Affairs
police offi cers, Davis was able to
present the facts behind the two
incidents.
According to Davis, the board
has agreed to retake the vote.
Davis said she now feels that
she has the support of the board
and the local police precinct, but is
still concerned over how the process
works.
“I’m super happy about the
outcome, but still scared how this
happened in the fi rst place,” Davis
said.
The next CB 11 full board meeting
will be on Thursday, February
27.
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