We always tried being optimistic about Cappuccino on the Bay. We hyped its reopening. We reviewed its new digs. We stopped by as often as we could stand to drink espresso. But in the end, Cappuccino on the Bay’s five-month existence at Avenue Z and East 17th Street passed like a numbing epilogue at the tail of a story many decades in the telling.
Cappuccino on the Bay shut down abruptly over the weekend. On Monday, the windows were covered in paper and a new tenant was already doing minor work inside. We can’t say whether or not the owner is looking for a third storefront in a little over a year – maybe some place with better foot traffic – but it’s unlikely. Our visits over the past few months saw the owner increasingly forlorn (or so it seemed), and our guess is he finally threw in the towel. A financial investment firm is moving into the location.
Cappuccino on the Bay moved to Avenue Z in July, after being forced out of it’s Emmons Avenue location when the property was sold a few months before. It sat on Emmons for generations, serving many bay residents their first espresso drinks. Fare thee well, Cap on the Bay. You’ll be missed.
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This place had been shut down for a few weeks already. It’s such a shame to see such a long term business die out, but the new location just wasn’t right for a cafe. They needed to be i the heart of the bay with lots of foot traffic. Maybe they can take over the old New Clements space on Sheepshead Bay Road.
BrooklynQ: It wasn’t shut down, he just started taking odd hours. I walk by very frequently, and sometimes he was there and the place looked open – other times he wasn’t, even if it was during regular business hours. I noticed he had started doing that more than a month ago, and I know he lost out on my business a few times ’cause of it.
I stand corrected. I only went by every couple of days, but ever ytime I went by it was closed. He lost my business too, as I assumed it was already out of business.
What a shame, I only got to go in there a few times. Maybe it wasn’t the ideal location for a cafe, but it was the closest place to me I could get pastries…
Mike (the owner) used to use my car service every day to go the old location. I havn’t driven him in a few months though. He was a nice guy.