Yesterday we sadly announced that as of December 1, beloved community center Body Actualized will no longer be in business. Today, we sadly announce the closing of yet another beloved community gem. Cafe and bar, Brooklyn Fire Proof East, operating in the neighborhood since 2006, has announced that it is closing as Wednesday, November 26.
“The revenue just wasn’t there,” the owner Thomas Burr Dodd- known among friends and in the community as Burr- told us. “It can be very difficult to run a cafe. Nobody talks about it but there is a lot of competition in Bushwick,” he added.
Brooklyn Fire Proof at Ingraham Street is a complex of eight businesses run by Burr and his wife Pearl. Only their cafe is closing, the remainder of the businesses continues its operation, including Brooklyn Fire Proof Stages, which are 17,000 square feet of full-service film and television sound stages; and Brooklyn Fire Proof Work Spaces, which are creative spaces for artists and entrepreneurs.
