By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE — The party will have to stay inside for now at East End Bar and Grill on First Avenue.
Community Board 8 unanimously rejected the bar's application for a sidewalk cafe Tuesday after neighbors complained that the bar at 1664 First Avenue between East 86th and East 87th streets doesn't control its patrons.
"They need to get a message from us that they need to take serious steps to change the direction they're going in," said Nicholas Viest, chair of Community Board 8's Street Life committee, of the bar's owners.
Neighbors at the public hearing testified that the post-college age crowd drunkenly wrestles in front of the bar and sometimes urinates on their doorsteps.
"It's young people having a great time and the goal of the night is to get as drunk as you can," said Julia Meyer, who lives in the building next to the bar.
In the three years the bar has been open, the owner, Kenny Bowen, has done everything to work with neighbors and quiet down his clients, said Joe Colucci, 63, a bartender at East End.
"This bar is good for the community, we have people of all ages come in here," Colucci said.
"But you can't go outside and tell people they can't talk, we're trying to run a business," he said.
The bar is welcome to re-apply for a sidewalk cafe license once conditions have improved, Viest said.
