Neither more nor less

Monday night 50 to 75 local residents again protested the presence of the outsized monster of a building at the corner of 5th st. and Bowery known as the Cooper Square Hotel . The protestors were also protesting the hotel's owners attempts to license the hotels 3 bars , especially the one that is associated with the outside garden . This garden and bar is proposed to be immediately adjacent to the windows of several next-door residents .

After the outdoor protest everyone entered the Evelyn & Louis Green Residence at 200 East 5th St. to attend the Community Board 3 State Liquor Authority (SLA) committee meeting to hear the hotel's owner , Mr. Moss , and his lawyer , Mr. Bernstein , present thier applications for the hotel's liquor licenses to the committee . The hotel was seeking the committee's approval and referal to the full C.B. 3 board for final voting on the applications . The result of the full board vote will then be referred to the New York State Liquor authority to inform the SLA's vote to approve or deny the license applications .

Mr. Orter of the 5th st. block association presented its case against the approval and referal of the applications to the full C.B. 3 board .

The committee agreed to approve the applications for referal to the full C.B. 3 board only if the hotel signed an agreement to limit in numerous ways the operation of its business and of it's bars in particular . A copy of this agreement can be obtained later from C.B. 3 .

The committee called for a vote for and against the approval by all those present . Most of those present voted against aprroval . Only a handful , the hotel owner's team , voted for approval and they did not seem that happy when they left the committee meeting .