Posts tagged closed business
Andrew Tarlow’s Greenpoint Bar Achilles Heel Has Closed
February 10, 2026 // “The business has faced a protracted period of financial hardship, and we’ve reached a point where it is no longer viable to continue operating,” the post reads. The staff allegedly announced a desire to unionize; in the announcement for the closure, the comments are turned off. If it had unionized, it would not be the first Tarlow spot to do so; She Wolf had also unionized about two years ago, after a brutal battle, which included a staffer drawing an antisemitic caricature of the owner in a workers’ zine.
Cheesman Park cafe closes abruptly amid staff unionization effort
October 14, 2025 // The Secret Garden Bar & Cafe closed abruptly during service on Friday morning after workers began petitioning passers-by about their efforts to form a union. City Street Investors opened Secret Garden a year ago, next to its company headquarters at the Tears–McFarlane House, 1290 Williams St., a historic mansion adjacent to Cheesman Park in Denver. But barista Tess Devillier told the Denver Post that the company grew frustrated by employee attempts to unionize earlier this year.