Pioneering Williamsburg craft beer bar priced out of neighborhood it once helped gentrify
NY Post
A Brooklyn bar credited with introducing European craft beer to the once-industrial neighborhood of Williamsburg in 2003 has been squeezed out of the now-pricey area.
Spuyten Duyvil will hold its final last call on April 21 after serving customers for more than 20 years on Metropolitan Avenue and Havemeyer Street, co-owner Joe Carroll told The Post Friday.
Carroll blamed higher rent for the closure in the aging, newly-posh neighborhood his establishment once helped gentrify.
Williamsburg has become a mecca of copycat craft beer bars on nearly every corner.
“When we opened 20 years ago craft beer was pretty underground and the beer geeks were few and far between,” Carroll said.
“When we opened there was very little American craft beer, so we carried almost exclusively European craft beer — Belgian, Dutch, English, German.
