{"id":311321,"date":"2026-08-01T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311321\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:56:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-game-over-barcade-plans-to-close-original-location-in-williamsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311321\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Game Over Barcade Plans To Close Original Location In Williamsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It appears to be &#8220;game over&#8221; for Barcade in Brooklyn. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The company known as the \u201coriginal arcade bar\u201d announced this week that its Williamsburg location could close when its lease is up. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cOur lease is ending,\u201d said Paul Kermizian, Barcade co-founder and CEO. \u201cIt\u2019s possible that we might be able to extend, but I don\u2019t really think we will.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The site, which opened in 2004, offers American craft beers and classic arcade games. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Kermizian said the decision comes after seeing new developments in the area and a decrease in nightlife trends. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThis neighborhood has changed so much, as far as nightlife goes, that it financially just doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense,\u201d Kermizian said. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Kermizian explained why the company is giving customers 1,000-day notice. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWhen we closed our location in Jersey City, people really gave us a lot of grief for only giving a couple months\u2019 notice,\u201d Kermizian said. \u201cSo, we just passed 1,000 days, and it just seemed like a nice, round number to give people a heads up.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Barcade currently operates eight other locations, including three in Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears to be &#8220;game over&#8221; for Barcade in Brooklyn. The company known as the \u201coriginal arcade bar\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-311321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}