Capitale Influx

March 04, 2003 Jacob C. emails us this Capitale influx: "I live across the street from Capitale and talk with members of a local Itallian Social Club over beer from time to time. Members of this ISC have a vested interest in things that happen in this neighborhood, and thus have had many dealings with the owners of Capitale. Anyway, such sources have informed me that the current rent on the place is FOURTY THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS A MONTH. Problems are compounded by the fact that the neighborhood community bar laws refuses to issue a public liquor license to a place within 1000 feet of another licensed establishment; M Bar (formerly Masat) is within this range. Even were they able to somehow obtain a liquor license, a caberet license would be impossible (the community board won't let it happen, not to mention the members of the ISC). I still resent the fuckers for the month I was forced to inhale bleach when walking passed their external restoration process, so I'm all the more ready to see them fall in a mire of back rent and no-longer-trendiness."