Whereas decades ago, people were serious about their pool, and acted that way. Poolroom patrons these daysĪre looking for more of an entertainment-oriented, nightclub-style experience, they said. That certainly was the undertone of the conversation with the old-timers there this week. It’s gonna be another 99-cent store.”Įven with Hermes open for business, the glory days of pool halls in the area may well have passed. All these empty places, and they’re going to ruin these people. Said, glancing toward several locked storefronts. Richard Byrnes, whose family owns a business nearby, pointed out the door toward Jamaica Avenue, under the elevated J and Z trains. Not unexpectedly, there was some anger among the regulars over the problems the new owners - Jason and Sunnie Kim and their son, Aaron - are having with opening a pool hall in a space that has been I visited Hermes Billiards on Tuesday to talk with the owners and customers there for the Dispatches feature in Sunday’s City section. Largely because that previous establishment had recently had its license revoked at the same address. The establishment, which opened in March in a space that had previously been occupied by a pool hall called Rack Em Up, was denied a liquor license in April. Now, only Hermes, at 102nd, remains - and barely. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, devotees at the Hermesīilliards Cafe recalled this week, there were halls at 111th, 102nd, 98th and 90th Streets in the neighborhood. There was a time, locals say, when you could not walk more than a few blocks on Jamaica Avenue, in Richmond Hill, Queens, without coming across a pool hall. For a pool hall, a liquor license is not a trivial matter.
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