Bar Matchless Closes After 14 Years In Greenpoint: Report

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — Bar Matchless, a local watering hole that has been a cultural home to the heavy metal set since opening in 2003, was forced to close when its building was sold, according to the bar and reports.

Bar Matchless — the live music venue at 557 Manhattan Ave. — announced on Instagram that the New Years Eve party with a Champagne toast and “broken comedy” would be its last.

“[G]oodbye to a decade of fun,” wrote Instagram poster tiffklahn. “So many memories, carafes of mimosas turned giraffe of mimosas, tattoo pre games, day after recoveries, double fried wings, day benders, bday tables, special sauce, snow days and all days really!”

Bar owners did not immediately respond to Patch’s request for more information, but no new events appear on their website and Greenpointers reported in December that they would close after the Manhattan Avenue building was sold.

The closure comes just months after Bar Matchless amped up its efforts to showcase live music, the New York Times reported in July.

Musician Scott Wolf, 38, told the Times he relied on Bar Matchless as small performance venues in the neighborhood were wiped out by increasingly high real estate prices.

“Places like this, we have to make sure we support them,” Wolf said.

“Before, this was a place you could play,” Wolf added. “Now it’s a place you want to play.”

Photo courtesy of GoogleMaps/Sept. 2015