At its Sept. 14 meeting, Brooklyn Community Board 1 voted to withdraw its recommendation for the Polish and Slavic Center Cafeteria liquor license application. The cafeteria presented a “fraudulent petition” in support of it, said a chairman Chris Olechowski.
At the Sept. 14 meeting, Mark Wysocki, identified as Queens resident and a former member of PSC, alleged that the cafeteria’s petition included names of non-existing people. An executive director of the center, Bozena Kaminski, 49, said the PSC hired private investigators to denounce allegations made by Wysocki. In his opinion, selling alcohol in the cafeteria will damage the image of the Polish community.
The cafeteria is a property of a non-profit social and cultural organization, providing services, like legal and immigration advisory, sports and English classes to help children and adults to get adjusted to life in America. Polish and Slavic Center has a cafeteria business in order to support its programs.
The cafeteria applied for the license in August 2010 and got a recommendation from the community board in May this year. The status of the license is still pending, the New York State Liquor Authority public query shows. And the cafeteria still fights to get it. Roman Bieniek, 59, a manager of the PCS Cafeteria said: “We need beer, because the business is down.” Meanwhile, some loyal customers prefer the cafeteria to be the way it is.
