Make It One for My Baby: Do Strollers Belong in Bars?
By FRANK BRUNI
A welcome sign of relaxed parenting or a troubling omen of head-splitting caterwauling? A boon to the diversity of the crowd or a threat to its good times?
The presence of a baby in a bar — or, for that matter, restaurant — is seen in wildly different ways, prompting wildly different appraisals. I was reminded of that just minutes after my latest installment of the Tipsy Diaries went up on The Times’s web site on Thursday.
In the article I mention my delight in seeing strollers at Bier International, a new beer garden of sorts on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem, which is becoming a bustling corridor of bars and restaurants. To me, at least on that recent evening, the strollers suggested what an easy, welcoming environment Bier International had established.
But a reader quickly sent me an e-mail with other thoughts. Read more…
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