Moe's (bar and lounge)
Moe's was a bar in Fort Greene, Brooklyn that closed in 2011.
History
Opened in a former tailor's shop in June 2001 by Ruby Lawrence and Chelsea Altman, the bar was popular and unusual in aggressively gentrifying post-Giuliani New York City in that it attracted an extremely mixed crowd, racially, gender-wise, and socially. New York magazine found it so racially diverse they quipped "they should shoot an after-school special here." The Village Voice called it a "nightlife crucible for the colliding worlds of old-school Fort Greene, urban bohemianism, and yuppification."The bar's bi-level space was decorated with thrift-store furnishings, a vibrating chair, and a dance floor in the back. The namesake character from The Simpsons, bar owneroperator Moe Szyslak, was honored with a drink special and a poster in the bathroom.