Pete Wentz’s NYC Club Gets Shut Down By The Police
Sad news for all the East Village hipster kids who like to frequent the bar Angels & Kings which is owned by Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz. According to a very colorful restraining order affixed to the front door of the establishment, the place has been shut down by the police for allegedly serving alcohol to minors. Here is a pic of the shuttered drinkery and the sad deets of what went down:
Whoops! An eagle-eyed tipster spotted this today on the front door of Pete Wentz’s East Village bar, Angels and Kings, which got smacked down with an NYPD closure. Looks like they were serving to minors. An inside source notes that Angels and Kings was issued a third citation for serving to minors, so they’ve been shut down for three days. They also noted that their first two violations were previously thrown out in court, though, so the cops are – as they’re wont to do with New York City bars – actually kind of just fucking with them. Sugar, they’re going down swinging. Last time this fair website heard from Wentz, he got all different kinds of pissed off and mad and upset when we posted a Gawker Stalker sighting of him … Wentz, despite Twittering his whereabouts, was primarily concerned with the safety of his kid, who was with him and wife Ashley Simpson (along with their two-ton bodyguard, who probably doesn’t stick out at all). And we can respect a guy who looks out for his kids, and who encourages his fans – mostly kids, too, we might add – to be concerned, too. But he’s clearly not too concerned with anyone else’s kids, or their drinking habits, which their parents might not approve of. Being a rock and roll parent: rough stuff. Bummer … Oh, and related: if you’ve never been to Angels and Kings, Joshua Stein put it best when he noted that, upon opening, “our douche canary in our douche mineshaft keeled over and died.” Which is everything you need to know about the place.
Meh. A three day closure is nothing … and if it really is true that the popo are just messin’ with Wentz and his bar then all of this attention is sure to be good for biz. I’m fairly certain that it is not policy to serve drinks to underage minors at the bar (er, that is, unless a famous underage minor shows up on the premises) so hopefully things will be back to normal at Angels & Kings soon. I wonder what the folks who hang out at A&K all the time did with themselves last night while the bar was shut down … perhaps another re-read of Twilight?
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May 31st, 2009 at 8:15 am
nyc is really strict about that stuff, so if you are serving to minors you will get caught.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:07 am
I live in a college town, and bars are getting cited and shut down all the time for serving college kids. I’ve never seen them post something on the door for the public to see. Do they do that in NY?
June 1st, 2009 at 9:04 am
I believe the Real World kids frequented that bar on the last season. at least a few of them were underage…and at the bar.