By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER MANHATTAN — An uptown wine bar with a reputation for being noisy got the green light to renew its liquor license from a Community Board 12 committee this week.
The board's economic development committee unanimously voted Tuesday to recommend that its full board support Corcho Wine Bar's license renewal, despite complaints from the bar's upstairs neighbors, who say that noise reverberates through their floorboards and windows and keeps them from being able to sleep at night.
"We are people who work during the day so it can't be that we're always kept up until you close early in the morning," said a neighbor who lives directly above the 38-seat wine bar at 231 Dyckman St.
The committee said they would support the State Liquor Authority application as long as owner Bennly Polanco agreed to close the restaurant's doors when playing live music.
He was also told to fit the bar's stereo system with an attenuator, a tool provided by the Department of Environmental Protection that limits the volume of music.
Polanco said he would abide by the stipulations and added that the restaurant has been working to improve its soundproofing.
The next step for Corcho's application is at the full CB12 board, which will vote on the resolution on April 26.
The liquor authority will make the final decision.
Corcho is just the latest restaurant on Dyckman Street to come under scrutiny for failure to keep noise levels down.
