Tribeca residents are up in arms over a local bar they say has worn out its welcome.

Biddy Early’s Pub and Restaurant, at 43 Murray Street, was the subject of heated discussion at a meeting of Community Board 1’s Tribeca Committee earlier this month. Michele Moran, building manager of 50 Murray Street, presented the committee with a stack of complaints residents have filed with her and city agencies about disturbances at Biddy Early’s.

“I’ve had riots in front of my building, where we’ve had to lock down the building because my men were going to be hit,” said Moran during the Nov. 18 meeting. “I’ve had windows broken with [flashlights], with bats. I’ve had urination, I’ve had people throwing up, I’ve had people going after my doormen-—all intoxicated people coming out of Biddy Early’s.”

Biddy Early’s renewed their liquor license last month, to the chagrin of the bar’s neighbors. The community board has 30 days to comment once a renewal application for a bar or restaurant is submitted. At its full board meeting on Nov. 23, CB1 voted to call on the State Liquor Authority to revoke the license.

Michael Levine, the CB1’s Director of Land Use and Planning, said the bar received its original liquor license in 2003, but the board didn’t start receiving many complaints until 2007.

“We keep hearing the story that there are kids that are drunk out of the minds on the street,” he said.

By the time CB1 received the renewal notification, Levine said it was too late to bring the issue before the committee before the renewal took effect. Committee members voted unanimously November 18 to draft a strongly worded letter to the SLA, possibly recommending a shutdown of the bar if matters don’t improve.

John Carey, one of the owners of Biddy Early’s, defended his bar at the meeting. “We got checked by the Vice [Squad] Halloween night, and we had no one under 21 in the bar,” he said, adding that he does try to be respectful of the neighbors. “It’s not that it’s run in a bad manner, it’s just that there’s a young clientele,” he said. “I do try to rectify it.”

“We have a bad name because we’re there the longest,” he said. Carey blamed some of the problems on Eammon’s Bar immediately next door to Biddy Early’s. In fact, another concern of residents is that there are four bars on the same block, and 10 within three blocks, said Moran, the building manager.

Lauren Caspi, a mother of young children who moved into 50 Murray Street in 2005, wants the police to do more.

“My question is, where is the police enforcement?” asked Caspi. She said she knows “for a fact” that underage drinking occurs at Biddy Early’s, which draws large crowds from nearby colleges. Caspi believes police should be cracking down on minors in the bar and the violence that spills into the street. 

Moran agreed. “I don’t know where the safety of my residents stands as a priority,” she said. “Obviously, I don’t think there’s enough police coverage in the area.”

Moran said she’s received complaints about the bar for years, and that residents are fed up.

“The straw that broke the camel’s back was the stabbing,” said resident Eskelin, referring to the stabbing of two men last January on Murray Street. “For me it was just like, wow, it’s just a matter of time before some college kids get too drunk playing beer pong.”

Michael Connolly, co-chair of the committee, encouraged Biddy Early’s to heed the neighborhood’s concerns and clean up their image.

"If you want to change this situation," he said, "you can."