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EVERYTHING MUST GO: The illegal tented extension covers My Mandarin’s produce section, and the store’s
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Photo by Kevin Duggan
IT’S A PITCH
IMPERFECT
Brighton Beach grocer must demolish its
outdoor tented produce section, city rules
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Second round
Coney Island Brewery expanding
indoors, outdoors on Surf Ave.
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
They’ll drink to that!
The beer makers at Coney
Island Brewery are expanding
into a space roughly three
times the size of their current
home, complete with a second
full bar pouring fi ve new
beers on tap, a kitchen, and an
area for events, according to
managers.
The suds spot’s seasonal
success prompted the enlargement,
according to its frontof
house manager, who said
the new space will accommodate
more than twice as many
brew fans when it opens this
summer.
“Obviously Coney Island is
a seasonal place, and during
the summer we struggle to fi t
everybody in here — we pack
out completely,” said Katherine
Telesca.
The bigger Coney Island
Brewery, which is slated to
open in June, will include its
current Surf Avenue spot —
which can fi t up to 45 ale-admirers
inside, and 200 more
in the outdoor beer garden
— along with the now-empty
space next door, which was
formerly the home of Steeplechase
Beer Garden until it
closed last September.
That storefront will allow
the brewers to pack 240 more
people inside, and another 150
outside, according to Telesca,
who said they plan to expand
their current beer garden to
include a swath of Surf Avenue
sidewalk that stretches all
the way from W. 17th Street to
MCU Park.
“It’ll be pretty similar to
the beer garden we had before,
with much more seating,
much more space, room for
beer garden games and things
CHEERS TO THAT: Brewery managers
Victoria Pitula, left, and
Katherine Telesca toasted to its
forthcoming expansion.
Photo by Julianne McShane
like that, and we’ll have outdoor
taps as well,” she said.
Patrons will have to wait to
grab a celebratory pint at the
brewery, however, because its
chief beer makers temporarily
shuttered the spot for about
a month on Monday in order to
accommodate construction on
a nearby sidewalk as part of
the city’s controversial plan
to raise Surf Avenue between
W. 16th and W. 21st in three
phases, which began last September.
But the brief closure is
a small price to pay for the
promise of a bigger brewery,
according to Telesca, who said
the staff hopes to reopen the
spot on Feb. 8, and to break
ground on the expansion that
same month.
“It’s a tough situation right
now, but it’s all going to be
worth it in the summer,” she
said.
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The owners of a new Brighton
Beach grocery store must
tear down a massive tent they
illegally erected outside their
market to expand its produce
section, the city ordered.
“The Department of Buildings
issued an order requiring
the tent be taken down
within 72 hours,” agency
spokeswoman Abigail Kunitz
said on Monday, two days before
this newspaper went to
press roughly 24 hours before
the demolition deadline.
The owners of My Mandarin
on Dec. 25 opened the grocery
store on Brighton Beach
Avenue at Ocean Parkway,
along with its tented extension
— which is furnished
with produce-fi lled aisles,
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