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Will New Bar Be Too Cool for Greenpoint?

Irrepressible Brooklyn blogger Miss Heather is worried that Shayz Lounge on Franklin Street, which used to be Jack O’Neill’s, will be more style over substance when it reopens on January 17. “I hope the new owners are going to keep the Irish pub theme and not attempt to transform this establishment into something unduly ‘hip,’” she writes. “Given the name they have selected I am not terribly optimistic.” [NewYorkShitty]

Will New Bar Be Too Cool for Greenpoint?