Moe's (bar and lounge)
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80 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA Print route »
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Moe's was a popular bar in Fort Greene, Brooklyn named after the tavern that appears in The Simpsons owned and run by the character Moe Szyslak.Opened in a former tailor's shop around 2001 by Ruby Lawrence and Chelsea Altman, the real bar was popular and highly unusual in aggressively-gentrifying post-Giuliani New York City in that it attracted an extremely mixed crowd, racially, sexually, and socially. In fact, New York magazine found it so racially diverse they quipped "they should shoot an after-school special here." The Village Voice called it a "nightlife crucible for the colliding worlds of old-school Fort Greene, urban bohemianism, and yuppification."
The bar was a bi-level space furnished with thrift-store furnishings, a vibrating chair, and a dance floor in the back. The namesake was honored by a drink special and a poster in the bathroom. Local celebrities such as Jeffrey Wright, Mos Def, and Common were known to have stopped by on occasion.
Moe's closed at the end of April 2011 due to rising rent, and hundreds packed its closing. The new renters controversially named the new bar that took its place Mo's.
