Park Slope 7th Ave. Cafe Suddenly Closes 'Until Further Notice'

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Another business has closed its doors on Seventh Avenue — at least for now.

Less than a week after longtime diner Park Cafe let its customers know it was closed with a sign in the window, Uptown Roasters cafe between 10th and 11th streets has done the same. A sign appeared in the storefront's window over the weekend saying that the South Slope Local spot will be closed "until further notice."

"With sadness, Your South Slope crew," the note signed off.

(Marc Torrence/Patch).

There is no word yet why the coffee shop, which first opened a little over two years ago, has shut its doors indefinitely.

A call to the cafe on Monday went unanswered and an old website address from when it was first opened seemed to be taken down. There are no recent failed health inspections or construction permits on record for the business, either.

South Slope Local first opened in February 2017 as the second location for the Uptown Roasters brand. Owned by Dan Hildebrandt, the cafe offers coffee from his family's native Peru.

But Uptown Roasters flagship cafe, in East Harlem, also seems to have closed since the Park Slope expansion. That location, on 110th Street, hasn't had a review since 2017 and is marked as "closed" on Yelp.

If South Slope Local cafe does close down, it will be the latest in Park Slope spots to leave the neighborhood, including many on Seventh Avenue.

The longtime diner Park Cafe permanently closed after more than two decades in the neighborhood last week.

Before that, The Old Carriage Inn, a longtime staple on Seventh Avenue, closed its doors for good on St. Patrick's Day after 35 years in the neighborhood. The family-owned bar, which first opened in 1975, had sold its building and couldn't afford to stay and rent the space, owner Dorothy Waggelman said.

Another Seventh Avenue staple The Clay Pot announced just a week before The Old Carriage Inn that it would be closing its Brooklyn space after 50 years. The jewelry store will focus on its Manhattan location, instead, owners said.

On other major avenues in the neighborhood, longtime gay bar Excelsior recently closed its doors on Fifth Avenue after 20 years in the neighborhood.

The Pacific Bar announced that it would close down its Fourth Avenue spot after 12 years in the neighborhood and, last spring, a grocer that had been in the area for nearly five decades shutdown.

Popular watering hole Kings Beer Hall also shut its doors back in April, although owners hinted that the bar might be opening somewhere else soon.