The sobering news of its last call has at least temporarily tamed a problematic college bar in Queens.
Cheap Shots, at 149-05 Union Tpke. passed a recent multi-agency checkup with “flying colors” and received no summonses, police and local leaders said.
“They have been behaving,” said Carolann Foley, president of the 107th Precinct Community Council.
The once-rowdy bar near St. John’s University has been under fire since it opened in March 2010. Residents said unruly customers constantly break out in fights outside. Some have even been spotted urinating and vomiting on the street.
Community Board 8’s Liquor License Committee unanimously rejected the bar’s liquor license renewal application in January.
But the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) has not cut the bar off yet.
It fined Cheap Shots $15,000 on March 25 for numerous complaints and at least 10 violations, mostly for disorderly conduct and alleged underage drinking, officials said, but has not reviewed its liquor license application yet, a spokesman said.
Bar owner Louis Abreu, who has hired more security detail to hush up weekend commotions, said a decision will likely not be made until a court date in two weeks.
Foley said she’s skeptical the state agency would close the tab on Cheap Shots.
“I don’t know what to think,” she said. “The SLA is just so hot and cold.”
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