FIND THE LATEST NEWS UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNPAPER.COM
January 10-16, 2020
ALSO SERVING PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, KENSINGTON, AND GOWANUS
Jonathan Li opened Sip and Play board game cafe in Park Slope. Photo by Ben Verde
RISKY BUSINESS
Board game cafe opens in Park Slope
BY BEN VERDE
Talk about a monopoly!
Park Slope’s only board
game cafe celebrated its
grand opening last week,
giving gamers young and
old a chance to sip espresso
as they play any one of more
than 200 titles, according to
the owner.
“We realized that Park
Slope didn’t actually have
a space where people could
work and study in the
morning hours while having
a board game option at
night,” said Jonathan Li,
owner of Sip ‘N’ Play.
The neighborhood is already
home to the Brooklyn
Game Lab, but Li says the
Seventh Avenue establishment
is targeted towards
Continued on page 22
Timber!
State shutters
controversial Park
Slope bar Woodland
BY BEN VERDE
State booze offi cials revoked
the liquor license of a controversial
Park Slope watering
hole — but not soon enough to
avoid a stabbing just days before
the shutdown took effect.
The State Liquor Authority
elected to close Woodland, the
pub on the corner of Sixth Ave
and Flatbush on Dec. 18 for a
laundry list of infractions dating
back to March 2018, with
offi cials citing violations of
the city’s noise ordinance and
inappropriately storing mimosas,
while noting that the restaurant
had become a “focal
point of police attention.”
However, the decision to revoke
the bar’s liquor license
didn’t go into effect until Jan.
3 — 12 days after a Dec. 22
stabbing at Woodland that
sent a man to the hospital for
stitches.
Woodland has been a longtime
source of grief for nearby
residents, and the city’s open
data portal shows a whopping
551 noise complaints between
June 2, 2012 and Dec. 15, 2019.
“They’ve been a bad actor
for a really long time, and
never really worked to address
the issues,” said Eric McClure.
Locals shared their com-
Continued on page 22
Vol. 39 No. 2 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNPAPER.COM
/BROOKLYNPAPER.COM
/BROOKLYNPAPER.COM