NEW YORK - Defenders of Freddy’s Bar & Backroom in Brooklyn are so eager to support the establishment against a recent eminent domain ruling that they’re practicing handcuffing themselves to the bar.
The locale is threatened by the 22-acre Atlantic Yards project. New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s top court, ruled last month that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties to make way for the development.
Yesterday, supporters bolted a chain to the establishment’s bar, and some patrons handcuffed themselves to it for about an hour while sipping on pints of beer. They say they will do it again when authorities try to seize the property.
