INWOOD — It may be a little tougher to buy a beer with your wings in Inwood after Community Board 12 voted to recommend against Grand Slam Wings restaurant’s wine and beer license application this week.
The board unanimously voted against the application for the restaurant at 84-86 Nagle Ave. after police warned that the establishment had been selling alcohol without a license and was routinely open after hours.
DNAinfo could not reach the restaurant owners for comment as no telephone number is listed for the shop and the gates to the space have remained closed throughout the week.
Neighbors said the storefront, which is located on the basement level of a busy two-story retail and residential stretch of Nagle Avenue, has been closed for renovations for the past several weeks.
All that could be seen of the shop was its solid metal gate and a Corona beer neon sign padlocked outside the entrance.
According to the community board, the restaurant received a nuisance abatement in December 2011 after complaints from residents about noise, and it added that several arrests had been made inside the establishment.
No details of the arrests were immediately available from the NYPD, but State Liquor Authority documents show that the establishment was found operating without a license on two occasions in 2010 and 2011.
Neighbor Yany Guillermo, 28, said she was not surprised to hear the restaurant had been operating illegally and said noise and after hours parties are a serious issue in this section of Inwood.
She added that she was pleased to hear the board voted against the license and hoped the SLA would follow suit.
“We want good businesses here,” she told DNAinfo in Spanish after the vote, “and that does not include rowdy restaurants that stay open all night and make noise.”
