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Should Children Be Allowed at Breweries?

July 15, 2025
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Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at the sometimes contentious efforts to bar children from breweries. We’ll also get details on Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that he will run against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, in the general election.

Imagine sipping an ice-cold beer only to look over and see a toddler squatting on a travel potty. This is the reality at some breweries, my colleague Rheana Murray reports. Brewery owners across the United States are caught in a delicate struggle between barring children from their establishments or welcoming them — and their beer-buying parents — with open arms.

Fifth Hammer Brewing in Queens is where Jenny Chang-Rodriguez, who lives in Lynbrook, N.Y., hosted her baby shower. After her son was born, she said, breweries were among the first public places she brought him. While sweet for parents, allowing children to hang out at breweries comes with its own set of hassles for business owners.

Breweries are often spacious warehouses with quaint outdoor areas where parents can let their hair down alongside their children. In a casual, family-friendly environment, parents aren’t on the edge of their seats trying to contain a youngster’s screams or tears the way they might at a fine-dining restaurant.

“There’s less pressure to make sure they behave perfectly,” Chang-Rodriguez said.

However, some proprietors say parents have become too lax.

Jason Goldstein, the owner of Icarus Brewing in Brick Township, N.J., said that issues with children roaming freely around the brewery had prompted him to institute 21-and-older hours. One day in the fall, a toddler wandered under a fence and ended up in the parking lot. The child’s parent emailed to complain. But Goldstein put the responsibility for the child’s safety on the parents.

“If your child crawled under there, how long were they away from you?” Goldstein said. “How long were you not paying attention? I don’t think this is our issue.”

Aurore Stanek-Griffiths, a parent in Red Hook, thinks barring children from establishments is discriminatory.

“Kids are the only category where we very openly, very publicly discriminate,” Stanek-Griffiths said. “If I tell you I run a business and during certain hours people over age 50 aren’t allowed, you would be like, ‘Why?!’”

This, of course, isn’t just a New York issue.

Jay Demagall, an owner of Forest City Brewery in Cleveland, said staff members had a hard time tending to customers with little ones running around. Demagall said he would often walk out into the beer garden and see a child climbing a tree. Sometimes, the parents were of no help.

“Instead of a parent telling them to come down, they’re taking a picture,” he said. “It was extremely dangerous.”

Customers at Notch Brewing, which has two locations in Massachusetts, were outraged when the brewery changed its rules in November to prohibit children after 6 p.m. Chris Lohring, the owner, worried that he had sabotaged his own business.

But the child-free evenings might have actually been a boon. “We had one of the better winters we’ve ever had,” Lohring said.

While enforcing a no-children policy has been more blessing than curse for some brewery owners, it has backfired for others.

Lasting Joy Brewery in Tivoli, N.Y., introduced adults-only hours last year for its popular trivia nights. Over the next eight months, the owners found that the rules were unpopular and reverted to an all-ages policy.

As brewery owners decide whether to allow customers to bring children into their spaces, the craft beer industry is still at a crossroads. After years of rapid growth, consumer demand is shrinking. More breweries closed than opened in 2024, according to the Brewers Association. Young adults are indulging in alcohol less. There are even threats to the industry from tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Owners seeking to stand out in a crowded market will have to consider whether it’s in their best interest to turn away parents with kids in tow.


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Cuomo says he will fight on in mayor’s race

Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, said on Monday that he would actively compete in New York City’s general election for mayor, ending speculation about whether he would continue in the race after losing decisively in the Democratic primary to Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

Cuomo, encouraged by supporters anxious to stop Mamdani, a democratic socialist, at all costs, announced his decision in a 90-second video posted online.

“As my grandfather used to say, when you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game,” Cuomo says in the video. “And that is what I’m going to do.”

The decision comes with a twist: Cuomo has pledged that if polls do not show him as Mamdani’s highest-ranked rival by mid-September, he will drop out of the race, according to a letter he sent to supporters. He will ask that Mamdani’s other opponents — Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent; Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee; and Jim Walden, an independent — do the same.

Backed by a super PAC that spent more than $22 million on his behalf, Cuomo led in polls throughout the primary but lost by more than 12 percentage points to Mamdani, a relatively unknown state lawmaker.

Democrats outnumber Republicans six to one in the city, and the winner of the Democratic primary is usually a heavy favorite to win the general election.

Cuomo, who resigned as governor under a cloud of sexual harassment accusations that he denies, was seen as running a lackluster campaign that seemed to treat his victory as inevitable. He was swamped by Mamdani’s army of volunteers, grabby social-media videos and relentless focus on affordability.

In conceding to Mamdani on primary night, Cuomo appeared so deflated that it was unclear whether he would take advantage of the independent ballot line he had secured for the general election. Even some of his supporters questioned during the primary contest whether he wanted to be mayor.

His video on Monday appears to be the start of an effort to address some of those concerns. He is shown walking on the Upper East Side in a casual white short-sleeved shirt, shaking hands and speaking with New Yorkers. (He also mispronounces Mamdani’s name, as he did during the primary race over Mamdani’s fierce objections.)

Mamdani, for his part, said at a Manhattan rally on Monday that his primary victory reflected a “hunger for a new kind of politics” and that Cuomo was having a hard time accepting his loss.

“We spent an entire campaign being told that it was inevitable for Andrew Cuomo to be the next mayor,” Mamdani said, “and he believed that himself.”


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Suddenly, the man gave a loud sneeze. The dog stopped in its tracks and looked up at him.

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Davaughnia Wilson and Ed Shanahan contributed to New York Today. You can reach the team at [email protected].

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Samantha Latson is a Times reporter covering New York City and a member of the 2025-26 Times Fellowship class, a program for journalists early in their careers.

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