They announced it on the bar website:
"To our Coogan’s family and friends,
We need your help in saying farewell in a message that is so very difficult to write. What’s missing are your stories and wishes and even pics that will make whole the heart of our saying goodbye.
Ironically, this past March 17t h would be the last time Coogan’s closed its doors. We had hoped to open them again but sadly that it is not possible."
Update. NY Times has an article:
I'm not much of a fan of bars, but it's sad to see this one go.
It's just one of many NYC businesses that won't be reopening. This morning a sandwich place in the Village that was right across the street from my building posted that it's closed for good.
This city is gonna be hurtin' economically for years.
Sad news. Coogan's was THE place to go after any meet at the Armory -- it's where Alan Webb and Drew Hunter celebrated their sub-4:00s (they remain the only two high schoolers to do it indoors). I have very fond memories of the place. Millrose won't be the same without it -- was glad I could head back there one last time in February.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/02/welcome-to-coogans-where-everybody-knows-the-runners-names/
So sad. One would hope they could open up after this is over. Do they need to pay rent, it's not like the landlord is going to have anyone to replace them with right now.
Sad. Wonder if there’s a very well-off athlete/agent with a soft spot in their heart for it... or a group of them
Well then forget Tom & Mark.
Great memories there trying to make my way to the bar through a sea of runners to fetch a Guinness.
NYC is showing real intelligence & flexibility in this pandemic, I see it emerging far stronger. I never knew before this that they were feeding & providing medical care for over 100,000 homeless schoolchildren, a massive investment in the future.
The LetsRun messageboard is like going to a regular bar.
uneven wrote:
The LetsRun messageboard is like going to a regular bar.
I get the sentiment but its not... that's why people still go to regular bars when there are infinite internet message boards they could go to instead.
I’ve never been to Coogan’s but am very sad that it is closing.
I’m planning on moving to the US soon, probably to NYC, and on my list of things to do was heading over to the famous Coogan’s after a track meet at the Armory. Guess I missed my opportunity.
There's absolutely nowhere else worth going to near the Armory.
The Ghost of Tom McArdle wrote:
Well then forget Tom & Mark.
Well done, sir.
This is just a tip of the iceberg. A lot of them will close or won't reopen after the virus. Bill De Blasio made it impossible for businesses to operate in NYC. Endless regulations, fees, and taxes. He thinks the businesses exist solely to pay health care benefits and pay taxes for his social justice programs.
AXC wrote:
So sad. One would hope they could open up after this is over. Do they need to pay rent, it's not like the landlord is going to have anyone to replace them with right now.
They almost closed back in 2018. $40K/month in rent. Plus the new min. wage and health care packages for all employees. Socialists kill jobs with their demands.
Yeah stupid socialists and their stupid need for healthcare and living wages!
alright boomer wrote:
Yeah stupid socialists and their stupid need for healthcare and living wages!
yeah now the employees have no healthcare and no wages.
speaker of cents wrote:
alright boomer wrote:
Yeah stupid socialists and their stupid need for healthcare and living wages!
yeah now the employees have no healthcare and no wages.
This is how the system evolves. Regulations change to reflect society's wishes. Dealing with a changing regulatory environment is part of running a small business, or any business for that matter. Their employees will not file out into the streets and lay down to die; they will get new jobs at a business that is able to stay open in the current regulatory environment. Of course businesses become comfy with the regulatory environment they're born into - but successful businesses understand how to adapt. We should not necessarily handicap social progress because small businesses on the margins will suffer. The regulatory environment is still (sometimes) a reflection of the values of a society. If a business cannot afford to adequately compensate its employees, that's a shitty way to do business. If we legally codify that the business cannot shaft its employees, and the business tanks...well we know what the secret sauce of success for them was, don't we? Businesses suffered from the clean air act and the clean water act, too. Dumping sewage into waterways, paying employees virtually zero dollars (tipped servers)...these are shitty business practices that kept occurring, and the government had to step in.
system is changing wrote:
speaker of cents wrote:
yeah now the employees have no healthcare and no wages.
This is how the system evolves. Regulations change to reflect society's wishes. Dealing with a changing regulatory environment is part of running a small business, or any business for that matter. Their employees will not file out into the streets and lay down to die; they will get new jobs at a business that is able to stay open in the current regulatory environment. Of course businesses become comfy with the regulatory environment they're born into - but successful businesses understand how to adapt. We should not necessarily handicap social progress because small businesses on the margins will suffer. The regulatory environment is still (sometimes) a reflection of the values of a society. If a business cannot afford to adequately compensate its employees, that's a shitty way to do business. If we legally codify that the business cannot shaft its employees, and the business tanks...well we know what the secret sauce of success for them was, don't we? Businesses suffered from the clean air act and the clean water act, too. Dumping sewage into waterways, paying employees virtually zero dollars (tipped servers)...these are shitty business practices that kept occurring, and the government had to step in.
You do realize there can be too much of a good thing right?
Of course you don't.
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