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Coffins, Vegans, and Dead Cats: Bushwick’s Pine Box Rock Shop Turned Seven This Month

The owners share their story of how they turned a coffin factory into one of Bushwick's most popular watering-holes.

Coffins, Vegans, and Dead Cats: Bushwick’s Pine Box Rock Shop Turned Seven This Month

Coffins, Vegans, and Dead Cats: Bushwick’s Pine Box Rock Shop Turned Seven This Month

The owners share their story of how they turned a coffin factory into one of Bushwick's most popular watering-holes.

Coffins, Vegans, and Dead Cats: Bushwick’s Pine Box Rock Shop Turned Seven This Month

Jose Alvarado

@josealvarado

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Seven years ago, the Bushwick community was so eager for a good bar to open in the neighborhood that somebody actually tagged “Please open already” in graffiti outside of what is now Pine Box Rock Shop, the vegan, craft beer bar and music venue housed in a former coffin factory, located at 12 Grattan St.

After countless calls, a never-ending series of forms and inspections, three former bartenders from the Crocodile Lounge, who…

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