Congestion pricing to drive up the cost for NYC beer hounds: Another ‘nail in the coffin’

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-12 16:27:08 | Updated at 2025-01-16 16:24:43 4 days ago
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Congestion pricing to drive up the cost for NYC beer hounds: Another ‘nail in the coffin’
NY Post ^ | 1/12/25 | Deirdre Bardolf

Posted on 01/12/2025 7:50:51 AM PST by Libloather

That’s a buzz kill!

Big Apple beer hounds may have to fork over 13% more for a brew as congestion pricing drives up costs for customers and businesses alike in some of Manhattan’s busiest neighborhoods.

Anheuser-Busch, whose brands include Budweiser, Michelob Ultra, Stella Artois and Corona, will raise keg prices by $5 across the board for customers throughout the NYC area, a company sales rep told The Post this week.

“We’re building the cost of congestion pricing into delivery fees,” the rep said.

And that means bars will likely have to charge an extra dollar per pint to offset the higher price, which he said the industry giant is in the process of notifying customers about.

“It’s death by 1,000 cuts,” one angry beer drinker in Midtown said of the impending price increase. “It’s particularly galling to me because this is nothing more than another Albany cash grab,” he added.

Some brew fans said the jump a price hike may turn them into teetotalers.

“It’s not worth it,” said Jaye Bartell, 42, a customer at the Tile Bar in the East Village who said he only drinks Budweiser because it’s cheap.

The beer boondoggle is another “nail in the New York coffin” for the industry, according to Lee Seinfeld, owner of Dive Bar and three other spots on the Upper West Side.

“This is going to be hard for me and I’m above 61st Street,” Seinfeld said. “Midtown bars are really going to suffer,” said Seinfeld, who noted his food prices have already gone up 45% since the pandemic.

Some vendors have even asked if he’d take deliveries after the bar closes at 4 a.m. in order to save some dough, since off the tolls go down to $2.25 in off peak hours.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: beer; congestion; cost; nyc

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1 posted on 01/12/2025 7:50:51 AM PST by Libloather


To: Libloather

“And that means bars will likely have to charge an extra dollar per pint to offset the higher price”

A higher price of $5 a keg translates to another $1 for a 16oz brew? Another failure of education today who can’t do 3rd grade math.


2 posted on 01/12/2025 7:59:58 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)


To: Libloather

And how many businesses will go under because of this stupid tax? Governor looking at short term revenue. But long term loss. NYC keeps dying more and more each day.



To: Libloather

one angry beer drinker in Midtown said ...snip... “ this is nothing more than another Albany cash grab,” he added.

So the Manhattan-imposed tax is on Manhattan drivers because of traffic congestion in Manhattan and somehow Albany is responsible for it. That explains how New York always elects democrats.

4 posted on 01/12/2025 8:02:18 AM PST by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)


To: Libloather

if you’re dumb enough to drink that piss water you should be charged more!!!


5 posted on 01/12/2025 8:05:43 AM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)


To: LoveMyFreedom

It is not short term. City wants businesses to close.

1) You are not allowed to enjoy yourselves unless you are using hard drugs for which the politicos get a cut
2) small businesses are run by non-liberals. So, like with the Democrat-funded Antifa/BLM riots; the politicos will prevent the businesses from re-opening after a bankruptcy and use eminent domain to seize the property for the city.

This is how the Maui fires were handled. And, this is how the PacificPalisades fires will keep any single family homes from being rebuilt.


6 posted on 01/12/2025 8:07:01 AM PST by bobbo666


To: Bernard

That was what I was thinking, too, from what I had previously read.


7 posted on 01/12/2025 8:10:10 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)


To: Libloather

“It’s more expensive to live in NY”
Me: “I don’t care”


8 posted on 01/12/2025 8:14:07 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)


To: LoveMyFreedom

That’s how ignorant they are, the lefties of New York.


9 posted on 01/12/2025 8:16:35 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)

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