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Since , Metropolitan had been one of Brooklyn's original gay bars! We welcome EVERYONE at Metropolitan! LGBTQ+ and all our allies everyone is welcome here! In the chilly winter months, we've got 2 fireplaces to keep you warm and fuzzy. Bundle up on a sofa with your friends or special someone and sip those drinks fireside!. ( reviews) Claimed $ Gay Bars Open PM - AM (Next day) See hours See all 88 photos. In , New York ranked Metropolitan as the best gay bar in Brooklyn, calling it "a Grand Central Station for Brooklyn’s gay scene, with a lively roster of DJs, drag queens, and events that are always mixed and never exclusionary".

Metropolitan has been the center of gay Brooklyn for over 20 years. The outdoor patio is the place to get social and is open year-round. During the cooler months, snuggle up by the fireplaces indoors. Metropolitan is well-known in the area for it’s legendary BBQs, every Sunday between Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Latest reviews, photos and ratings for Metropolitan at Lorimer St in Brooklyn - view the menu, hours, phone number, address and map.

Gennaro Milo, an Italian-American in Virgi nia whose family owned the building for most of the s, said that he remembers his great-grandfather keeping large casks of wine down there from the Prohibition era. The name is irrelevant — blood was spilled. A patron had an issue with the family partner, and they quarreled.

The patron ended up dead. Furious, the elder Milo Grandfather took out fistfuls of cash from the register and handed them to his partner. Banished, the man returned to Italy. He remembers when his family finished off the last of the massive, year-old barrels in the s, while he was still a child. But what Milo remembers most is the chill he felt descending the narrow staircase, and the fear of the ghosts who might lurk below.

The youngest Milo, whose father also named Gennaro moved his family to East New York even as the great-grandparents lived above the restaurant, grew up around the bar, helping out and serving a neighborhood of immigrants — mostly Southern Italians like himself, he remembers. But it was the story of that fallen customer that still haunted him.

The story of Lorimer is, in some ways, emblematic of the change. The plot, a bar where gay men dance and drink until late in the night, sits under an assemblage of apartments where residents complain if the noise gets too loud. Metropolitan Bar, much like the rapidly gentrifying area around it, is filled with spirits. Today, LGBTQ people — and especially gay men — go to one of a few bars around the neighborhood to meet others.

They might go to the bar on Montrose or the one off Union Avenue — but many go to Metropolitan Bar, a neighborhood staple since it opened in Williamsburg became an important pioneer outpost in conquering the land that would become greater New York City. In , a man named Richard Woodhull bought a great swath of land around what is now Metropolitan Avenue and named it Williamsburgh after the man who surveyed it.

Although his enterprise ultimately failed, it inspired others to later take up that mantle. The area began to grow. In , Williamsburgh became an incorporated village and by , Williamsburgh was its own city. The land at what is now Lorimer belonged to a church established by those Dutch settlers.

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An Old Dutch Reformed Church burial ground sits beneath the east side of the entire block. It was likely owned by the First Reformed Dutch Church of Williamsburgh, which convened officially in at its first location on South 2nd Street — about a minute walk from the churchyard. The church building was sold after the Civil War ended, but the congregation continued to worship in the area, becoming the Bedford Avenue Reformed Church in New York land conveyance records show that the land at Lorimer Street was deemed forlorn sometime before the mids — a city sheriff sold it and the building next to it to a pair of sisters in The year began the massive wave of Italian immigration to New York City.

Over the next 40 years, nearly four million Italians emigrated to the United States, and most came to New York to escape disease and poverty in southern Italy. The eldest Gennaro Milo and his wife, Maria, fell in with that massive migration.

His immigration record states he was a tailor. His family said he spent the first decades in the United States as a repairman for sewing machines while he and his wife traveled back and forth to Italy. In , they traveled home to Italy for the last time. Three years after their return to the city, they opened the restaurant, the youngest Milo said. It was an ambitious venture.