Bar in NY raises drinking age to 25 because young people are 'too annoying'

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22 points·Huhty··8 comments

I can understand the desire to curb the rowdy behavior, but I'm not sure I agree with the methodology of banning everyone in a certain demographic. If the common characteristic of the rowdy people were race instead of age, would it be okay to ban everyone of that race from drinking after a certain time?

Private entrepreneurs should be able to do whatever they want. I don't go to bars but I might visit one with a 30+ limit.

These existed in Hoboken at one point. Haven't been there in years so not sure if this still happens.

There are bars like this in my city, in some particularly rowdy college-bar areas. They've been open for 20+ years, most of them. So it must work out from a business POV. But never visted one to report.

However, guess it's only news because it's New York. =)

I guess I'd have to disagree here. I think that there definitely should be some restrictions on who you can ban from patronizing your business (such as forbidding businesses from banning racial minorities or homosexuals); I'm just not sure whether I think something like limiting based on age (outside of enforcing the legal drinking age).

I'll try another thought experiment which is a bit more similar to the real-life situation: do you think that private entrepreneurs should be able to ban people over a certain age, e.g. everyone above 50?

Bars tend to already ban everyone in a certain demographic: Under 21.

Yes, but there's a a clear legal basis for that. I'm not sure there's a legal basis for banning arbitrary demographics from patronizing a business.

Maybe a name change - as much as I like the name Phil's Crummy Corner - to something snobbier might help.

And take it from me -- 50somethings have as much trouble holding their liquor as 20somethings.

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