Good news for fans of hops and gentrification: Zum Schneider, the pioneering German bar/restaurant in the East Village, has had its lease extended to 2021 after a protracted court battle. Owner Sylvester Schneider, magnanimous in victory, touched on some of the reasons his landlords might have wanted him out: "You should know that this whole thing was not just a money thing; it was also a racial thing. We are white; they are Puerto Ricans." The affable Deutschlander continued:

"We helped to turn the neighborhood around, to which the people who live in the building, I think, don't really like the change," he said."I think they would like it to be back where it was, which was a drug and weapons heaven."

Yeah, those Puerto Ricans, always obsessed with weaponry and racial purity. Who do they think they are?

German beer garden owner: Eviction case had racial tones [Villager]
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