BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — BELOVED BROOKLYN DIVE BAR Montero Bar & Grill, at 73 Atlantic Ave. near Hicks Street, has been sold to Crew hospitality group, according to the New York Post.
The bar, founded by Joseph and Pilar Montero almost 90 years ago and now run by their son Pepe, was once the favorite hangout of the sailors and longshoremen who worked the nearby docks. They brought mementos of their lives at sea — photographs, ship models, life preservers — to their home-away-from-home, where they remain still.
The interior of Montero Bar & Grill. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle
Alex Pincus, who owns Crew with his brother Miles Pincus, is a lifelong sailor and longtime friend Pepe Montero, and plans to keep the bar as it is.
The Brooklyn Eagle in 2012 published an obituary of Pilar Montero, who died that January at 90.
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