Neighborhood tensions are high! Is Triple Crown's owner an ass who pisses off people for no reason? Or does the neighborhood just not like hip-hop music and the kind of people who like it? Y' know, like those non-white people I've heard so much about. Honestly, even if the owner rubs people the wrong way, this hardly seems fair. Bars like Union Pool and Royal Oak make all kinds of noise, but their customers listen to Grizzly Bear instead of Nas, so I guess that's ok. Am I reading between the lines for racism that isn't there? It's possible. I don't know all the details. Maybe Triple Crown blatantly ignored all the complaints made against them. Owner Michael Pappalardo certainly seems to rub people the wrong way.
Regardless, the fact the community board is preventing the sale of the space to another owner out of what seems like purely personal spite is absurd. They basically don't want him to recoup any of the money he has invested. All the owners want to do is leave without losing everything--I say the community board should just let them sell the place and be done with it.
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