Lol funny, they didn't have time to do a little a bit of due diligence when this group asked to book, but plenty of time to pick fights on Reddit and sanitize their IG comments

We can certainly get behind your above statement. Thank you.

Well… they are deleting the few comments that were there that voiced concern. Some good ol’ damage control.

Someone just posted a video from their window of a man getting knocked out cold on Newark Avenue, and others have been posting videos of someone purposely crashing a car, aimed at people, into Taqueria, but yea, and on the daily people complain about cars speeding through Downtown cross walks, almost murdering them...but yea, Downtown is safe.

Offer Up has been decent in my experience.

This isn’t the same as a regular corporate event. It is a political event giving a platform to a group that is very opposed to a large chunk of your customer base and is aiming at closing off a decent portion of public park space for the benefit of a few very wealthy people. You should always investigate political groups seeking to utilize your venue.

Your response makes sense as a regular person. You aren’t a regular person in this situation, though. You are a member of the community and depend on that community for your business and employees. Given the pain already felt due to rampant inflation and the pandemic, and given the darker economic situation on the horizon, it would be prudent to consider the longer term effects of your actions. Recessions decimate discretionary income. Breweries are very much dependent on discretionary income. This isn’t a good time to alienate patrons.

Journal Square.

For places with more places to eat not just Indian, move anywhere other than Journal Square.

Look man, I agree with all the issues towards this event. But do not get into comparing the beer between 902 and Departed Soles. It's just not a thing you can say with a straight face unless you're gluten free

Enjoy those trails while you can.

Oh c'mon ...

What you're seeing is a public outcry from people who are regular customers that are upset by this. And you're not taking ANY responsibility???

"Hey, very clearly we misjudged the situation. We're going to take all this into consideration and ensure we do not affiliate with the group in the future. In the meantime, it's too late to cancel the event and so we invite you all to come and speak out against the people's park foundation. We're sorry, and we hope we can move forward with trust in the community."

How hard would this have been?

Your defensiveness really says something about your integrity, and I'm so incredibly disappointed by this.

I’m sorry but profiting from this organization IS being affiliated with them. you can shift the goalposts and muddy the waters as much as you want, it doesn’t make a difference.

Maybe cancel it because it’s the right thing to do?

you all want to host an event which is actively harmful to the community and then claim you’re being ASSAULTED for backlash? these are the predictable consequences of your actions

if people being mean to you online is assault then what do you call it when a billionaire tries to tear down a public good so they can make more profit?

Cancel the event and I'll come spend $100 if you host a Friend's of LSP event

>So you promote privatization of the park?

yes

Lol I mean you should clearly see that a billionaire's astroturf org is using you to push his agenda so he can continue to hoard wealth by using public resources. But hey, both sides am I right?

That's really disingenuous. u/BrewedInJerseyCity is an account that's at least a year old and posts regularly in our area subreddits. Additionally, their instagram account is followed/following community accounts that talk about the LSP renovation and activism in support of keeping LSP free to the public and not privatized by Paul Fireman.

They may not know the ins and outs of the situation, and Fireman's astroturfing campaign and PR is designed to trick people. However, there's no excuse at this point...

Why do you have to be interested in politics in 2023? It's such a toxic subject that I don't blame a lot of people for investing their energy elsewhere.

isn’t hosting a public forum with someone people want to question a form of supporting the community? they’re not taking sides, just giving an opportunity for people to ask questions. i think 902 is getting an unfair amount of flak for just hosting a Q&A session. obviously, it would be different if this was after the event and only softball questions were allowed

Ok so i loved your brewery you were close and great but i cant back this at all please try to take the community into mind this man is against the community by all regards

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Every social media move this shitstain makes is a buffoonish bungling of low effort AstroTurfing. How is it that someone with such deep pockets fails so hard, again and again, at publicity campaigns? I guess we should be grateful he continually hires incompetent people to handle these things.

Damn y'all. I think they just accepted money for the event without vetting and now can't back out. They deserve the outrage from the community but let's not stoop to trying to make stuff up.

But they're not into politics???????????

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Actually, I think Fox news was on every time I went in there. Now they're going to cry about being cancelled.

I don't think a boycott of 902 would be effective in this situation, as it really distracts from the real issue which is the park. I am *really* trying to be fair to 902 and their position of neutrality, regardless of my own opinion, and if it comes to a point that I stop giving 902 business then so be it.