Most residents of Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton know this building as being the old Short Ribs place. It was also a place called Blue Claw, then once again a place called Short Ribs and then once again a place called The Loft.
It’s located on the corner of 91st Street and 3rd Avenue, and from what I hear, about to be torn down to make room for a parking lot expansion.
Around 1992 or so I remember a car getting fire bombed right next to the building and that the flames melted a large portion of the plastic siding that had been on it at the time, but that’s not why we’re here. We want to find out about the gore!
Back in 2003 or so a man who had just been released from prison ended up getting found shot dead in the second floor bathroom on a Saturday night.
It blows my mind that they local papers have nothing on it that is easily and readily searchable on this!!!
But despite this, it did happen!
There were police cars and scooters parked outside the club for weeks with “Wanted” signs up all over the surrounding blocks. They didn’t really have much info other than the fact that a guy who had just been released from prison was found dead by way of a bullet.
I don’t think that they ever found the killer, and so it is…a nameless man, found shot to death in the bathroom of a lame Brooklyn bar and lounge - and nobody seems to have even noticed that it happened.