A game traditionally re✅served for the hip-ཧreplacement crew is about to get a hipster-Brooklyn makeover.
A former die-cutting factory by the Gowanus Canal will be transformed into a trendy shuffleboard — yes, shuffleboard — parlor featuring a full bar꧑ and live music after a Community Board 6 committee backed its liquor-license plan.
Jonathan Schnapp and Ashley Albert, owners of the planned Royal Palm🍌s Shuffleboard Club at 514🔯 Union St., said their business — the first of its kind in New York — would be modeled after Florida’s famous St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, where scenes from the 1985 film “Cocoon” were shot.
“We recognize that a lot of [20- and 30-something] people our age aren’t satisfied with just going to a bar and drinking,” said Albertღ. “This will be set up like a bowling alley.”
The c🌳o-owners only got their license endorsement Monday night after agreeing to make a number of concessions from a previous application to appease concerned neighbors. Those include closing by 2:15 a.m. on weekends, creating 𓆉a designated smoking area to keep patrons from puffing away along nearby street corners, eliminating rooftop access for customers, and slashing the maximum number of occupants from 500 to 300.
The shuffleboard parlor 💝is🌱 expected to open next April.
“They put in a lot of blood, sweat and tears working with neighbors, so they’d get off on the right foot, and this went a very long way [in gaining the committee’s approval],” said CB6 dist🌃rict manager Craig Hammerman.
The full board is expecte🧸d to ratify the plan at a later date and then turn it over to the state Liquor Authority, which usually backs such endorsements.