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Every address on both rosters, plotted on the real Brooklyn street grid against the bars we’re considering. Rings radiate from the team’s mathematical centre — the point that minimises total travel, which lands almost exactly on Julie’s front door. Seven players will walk or bike; the other eight depend on transit, and that is the group the venue has to serve.
Street geometry © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), rendered directly into the page — no tile server. Projection is equirectangular; rings are straight-line distance, not travel time. Player pins are deliberately approximate — snapped to a 200 m grid and shown by street and neighbourhood only, never by building number. Distances are rounded to match. The league boundary is traced from the commissioner’s map against its scale bar and runs on a diagonal: its eastern edge sits near Marcy Ave at Myrtle latitude but out at Stuyvesant Ave by Fulton St.
These are the trips the venue actually has to serve. Every line listed here runs 24 hours.
| Player | Home | To centre | Line they need | How it works |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark & Olivia | 3rd Ave, Gowanus | ~3.5 km | G | Carroll St → Classon or Clinton-Washington. One seat. |
| Craig & Elle | E 14th St, Manhattan | ~4.3 km | G | 1st Ave L → Metropolitan, cross to the G. Two seats. |
| Hayley | Halsey St, Bed-Stuy East | ~2.8 km | A/C | Ralph Ave → Franklin or Clinton-Washington. One seat. |
| Chris | W 105th St, Upper West Side | ~11.9 km | A/C | C from 103rd St straight through. One seat, 11.9 km. |
| Mitch | Hart St, Bushwick | ~3.3 km | L / B54 | L from Halsey, or the B54 down Myrtle. One seat either way. |
| Lulu | Cornelia St, Bushwick | ~3.3 km | L / B54 | L from Halsey/Wilson, or the B54 down Myrtle. |
Four need the G, two need the A/C, two need the L or the B54. No single bar sits on top of all three — but several sit within a short walk of both the G and the A/C, which covers six of the eight, and the Myrtle Ave corridor picks up the last two. The venue test is therefore simple: can you walk to both the G and the C from the front door?
Seven players, no transit constraint — they drop out of the venue calculation entirely.
| Player | Home | To centre |
|---|---|---|
| Julie | Willoughby Ave, Bed-Stuy | on the centre |
| Joe & Michelle | Willoughby Ave, Clinton Hill | ~1.2 km |
| Matt | Suydam St, Bushwick | ~2.4 km |
| Isaac | 5th Ave, Park Slope | ~3.3 km |
| Josh | Cornelia St, Ridgewood | ~4.0 km |
| CJ | Hawthorne St, Prospect Lefferts Gardens | ~4.2 km |
Seven still in play, ranked 1–7 by how likely each is to actually host us after the 19 September crawl — firsthand evidence, not the distance model that ordered this list before. (The full CSV ranks every venue considered, so its numbers run higher.) Ownership checked on each. Two boards is a preference, not a requirement — one board is workable. Two lanes want roughly 10–12 ft of wall and 11 ft of depth; one wants about half the wall.
| # | Bar | Address | km | Ownership | Food | Tuesday | Transit 8 | Space — two boards preferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Layup | 47 5th Ave | 4.35 | Independent (likely) — ownership changed this year | Classic bar food | Unverified | 6 / 8 | Seen in person — the best prospect of the ten. Two separate spots where a board would fit. The bartender we spoke to plays for 773 Lounge in Division 4 and has been pushing his own management for a board for a while. A board here would pull casual play from the regulars, not just league nights. The blocker is reaching ownership, not the room. |
| 2 | Bilt Bar | 583 Vanderbilt Ave | 4.13 | Independent (likely) — single location | Charcuterie, no kitchen | Unverified | 2 / 8 | Seen in person. The board would take the back wall where two pinball tables now sit. Room for one board only, and the area is tight for a full team. Co-owner Laney plays darts herself and is interested — she can’t be the one to run it, but she wants it in the bar. Replied on Instagram; we have her number. |
| 3 | The Dram Shop | 339 9th St | 5.30 | Independent (likely) — single location | Sports bar kitchen | Unverified | 4 / 8 | It has hosted a darts team before. Mac Diller, met at Bilt Bar, played on a team that ran out of this address. Darts, pool and shuffleboard, and the Brooklyn APA Pool League runs from here too. Not visited and no contact yet — and at 5.30 km it is further out than the old home bar. |
| 4 | Branded Saloon | 603 Vanderbilt Ave | 4.18 | Independent — queer owned and operated | Full kitchen | Clear — comedy runs upstairs | 2 / 8 | Seen in person — the best room of the ten. The basement is the space, not the upstairs we had assumed: it just lost its pool table and the bar is openly looking for an activity to replace it. Tuesday comedy runs upstairs and would not collide. No reply to our email yet. A queer bar — best suited as the home of a queer or, at minimum, queer-friendly team. |
| 5 | McMahon’s Public House | 39 5th Ave | 4.35 | Independent — single location, took over O’Connor’s | Full kitchen | 11am–2am — masses of slack | 6 / 8 | Seen in person — more raw wall than anything else on the list. A large private upstairs event room that would take one board comfortably and arguably several. Two catches: the room feels like a corporate event space even though the ownership is not — we have both owners on their mobiles — and a board behind a closed upstairs door gets no passing trade. A question for the league’s taste, not a space problem. |
| 6 | Halyards | 406 3rd Ave | 4.91 | Independent — single location, since 2011 | Beer and whiskey; kitchen unconfirmed | 4pm–2am — Tuesday unconfirmed | 4 / 8 | Board confirmed — and that is the problem. It hangs over the pool table, which is in demand, and the cellar door the barbacks use is right beside the throw line. Sightlines fit about eight people, so most of a team could not watch. Workable if the league is desperate; a standing source of conflict otherwise. |
| 7 | Union Hall | 702 Union St | 4.52 | Small local group — sister venue to Floyd | Full kitchen — open till 10pm Tue | 4pm–2am — the bocce league runs Mondays | 4 / 8 | Not visited on the crawl. The room is real — CJ has stood in it, 5,000 sq ft with two indoor bocce courts, and it already hosts an outside league. But they run a great deal of programming already, and the read is that darts would be one thing too many. Unresolved rather than ruled out. |
Branded Saloon’s Tuesday holds up. Their public calendar holds 4,312 events going back to 2010, and Tuesday is comfortably their quietest night — two Tuesday bookings in all of 2026 against 24 Sundays and 16 Mondays. The visit turned up one thing the calendar did not show: a Tuesday comedy night. It runs upstairs, and the room we want is the basement, so the two do not collide.
The secondhand room did not survive the visit. For weeks this page carried Fulton Grand as the one candidate whose back room someone had actually stood in — the owner of Moot Bar had described a space that once held shuffleboard, and a shuffleboard table is twenty-two feet long, so the depth seemed beyond argument. In person the bar is cramped and there is nowhere to hang a board. Meanwhile The Layup, which every listing said had nine screens and no darts, turned out to have two workable spots and a league player behind the bar. Walking in beat every source we had.
Thirty-six venues considered. Most were dropped; one was referred to the league for a different team. Kept here with reasons so nobody re-suggests them.
| Bar | Where | Why it’s out |
|---|---|---|
| Greenwood Park | 555 7th Ave | Not for us — passed to the league for another team. Recommended by Laney at Bilt Bar, who knows the owner. It is a genuinely good darts venue: 13,000 sq ft, a kitchen, three bocce courts and a working events business. But at an estimated 6.18 km/player it is the furthest thing we have assessed, and the space is principally open-air. The distance objection is ours, not the venue’s — our roster sits in Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill. For a team based around South Slope, Sunset Park or Bay Ridge it is well placed, so it has been referred rather than dropped. |
| The Emerson | 561 Myrtle Ave | Seen in person — it is a pool bar. At 6pm on a Tuesday ten people were sitting with cues in hand waiting for the table. The only wall a board could go on is the one the pool table occupies, so darts would have to displace the bar’s main draw and its most loyal crowd. Hard to imagine them agreeing, and harder to imagine it working if they did. The most painful loss of the crawl: it led this list on distance, transit and every written description of its size. |
| Fulton Grand | 1011 Fulton St | Seen in person — no room, and not the vibe. A genuinely cool bar, but cramped, with nowhere to hang a board and none of the feel a four-hour standing night needs. They did reply on Instagram. This was the venue the whole page rested on: the shuffleboard back room came secondhand from the owner of Moot Bar and did not exist as described. |
| Black Forest Brooklyn | 733 Fulton St | Seen in person — no wall real estate. We went in with high hopes; the communal-table beer hall has the floor but not the walls, and a darts night would sit oddly in it. No response on Instagram and we reached no one in charge. Costly on transit, where it scored 8 of 8 — the best of any candidate. |
| Hartley’s | 14 Putnam Ave | Seen in person. Small room, and not a bar that would want a darts team. Great Guinness, wrong room. |
| Glorietta Baldy’s | 502 Franklin Ave | Seen in person. Small, and the wrong feel for a weekly night. The pinball machines were never floor-space evidence. |
| Washington Commons | 748 Washington Ave | Low on vibe, and 0 of 8 on transit — too far from both the G and the A/C. |
| Doris | 1088 Fulton St | Not the vibe we’re after. |
| The Crown Inn | 724 Franklin Ave | Reached out — not interested. And the back area we would have needed is completely outside, which is no use for a season that runs through winter. Trivia on top. This was the commissioner’s contact’s strongest recommendation — “by far the most likely to work” — and it did not survive first contact. |
| Fourth Avenue Pub | 76 4th Ave | Looks fun, but clearly not enough room for a board. A costly loss: at 4.32 km/player it had the best distance of the whole Gowanus and Slope cluster — better than Union Hall, the Crown Inn and The Layup — and the project notes put it in the same ownership team as Fulton Grand, so one intro might have opened both. |
| High Dive | 243 5th Ave | It does not actually have darts. It surfaced on a Yelp “dart bars” list, but what it has is pinball and vintage arcade games — the same inference that already failed twice here. A pinball machine is a wall footprint, not a floor one. |
| Littlefield | 635 Sackett St | Large room, but a working music venue that books weeknights. |
| The Bell House | 149 7th St | Large main room, but a working music and comedy venue that books weeknights, and at 5.22 km/player further out than the old home bar. Same owners as Union Hall. |
| Sound + Fury Brewery | 141 Lawrence St | Wrong vibe — we want something divier — and too far at 4.48. The largest room found inside the boundary: 6,000 sq ft, capacity 300, a brick-oven kitchen, and half a kilometre from Hoyt–Schermerhorn, the only station in Brooklyn on the A, C and G. |
| Threes Brewing | 333 Douglass St | A chain — five sites, past the three-to-four venue local group the screen allows — plus the same vibe objection. Open Tuesdays noon to midnight with purpose-built event rooms, and walking distance for two of the players. |
| Fulton Hall | 250 Ashland Pl | No visible play space in the photos. Its owner, Vortex Hospitality, runs four venues — the same scale as two candidates still in play, so ownership is not the reason. Had the best station access of anything found; worth a second look if the space question can be settled in person. |
| Sharlene’s | 353 Flatbush Ave | No room for a board. A long narrow room with the bar down one side and tables down the other, leaving only the walkway between — and a lane needs depth perpendicular to a wall, which is the one dimension a shotgun room does not have. Pinball eats more of the wall. Good transit and location could not fix the geometry. |
| Chilo’s | 323 Franklin Ave | Not enough room inside for one board, let alone two — clear from the photos, so it did not warrant a visit. Everything else about it was strong: independent under Dave Zirin, a full kitchen, and a winterized year-round yard. |
| Doppelgänger | 415 Myrtle Ave | No room for a board anywhere in the bar, from the photos. Expensive at 3.71 km/player and two blocks from The Emerson. This address sat on the list as Cardiff Giant, which closed in March 2026 — no source had ever described the interior, and now it has been judged. |
| Captain Dan’s Good Time Tavern | 497 Greene Ave | No room for a lane, and trivia already holds Tuesday at 7:30. Two strikes on the two screens that matter, so not worth the trip. The loss stings on paper — 8 of 8 on transit and third-closest of anything considered. |
| C’mon Everybody | 325 Franklin Ave | Best back room found, but it is a working music venue and books Tuesdays. |
| Rustik Tavern | 471 DeKalb Ave | Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, and more a comfort-food restaurant than a pub — not somewhere that would want a board on the wall. Costly on location: at 3.62 km/player it is the second-closest venue assessed, behind only The Emerson. |
| Tip Top Bar & Grill | 432 Franklin Ave | Open Thursday to Sunday only — shut on Tuesdays. |
| All Night Skate | 54 Rockaway Ave | Outside the league boundary by roughly 2 km. An entire arcade room and a balcony — the best raw space found anywhere. |
| Wonderville | 1186 Broadway | Outside the boundary. |
| Turtles All the Way Down | 236 Malcolm X Blvd | Outside the boundary by about 0.5 km. |
| Therapy Wine Bar 2.0 | 260 Malcolm X Blvd | Outside the boundary; also a wine bar. |
| Bar LunÀtico | 486 Halsey St | On or just past the boundary; “very narrow” and has a stage. |
| Project Parlor | 742 Myrtle Ave | Closed. Had the best geographic score of anything found — exactly the team’s optimum. |
| Swell Dive → Kubo | 1013 Bedford Ave | Swell Dive closed in 2025, then Kubo, a Filipino bar, opened in the space in February 2026 — and it now shows as temporarily closed. Worth rechecking if it reopens: at 3.65 km/player this address beats Fulton Grand on distance. |
| The Low Post | 1452 Fulton St | Closed. |
| Lover’s Rock | 419 Tompkins Ave | Closed in 2025. |
| Hanson Dry | 925 Fulton St | Closed. Was recommended by the commissioner’s contact. |
| Brooklyn Public House | 1048 Bedford Ave | Closed. |
| Dynaco | 1112 Bedford Ave | Temporarily closed. Had a back room — worth rechecking if it reopens. |
| Bed-Vyne Brew | 370 Tompkins Ave | Sources conflict on whether it is still trading. |
Seven of the thirty-two were simply closed — including Project Parlor, which sat exactly on the team’s mathematical optimum. Published bar guides go stale fast, so confirm a bar is trading before travelling to it. Most of those dropped on space or vibe were ruled out by walking in rather than by searching — listings describe drinks and atmosphere, never floor plans. Chilo’s, Captain Dan’s, Sharlene’s and Doppelgänger are the exceptions — between photographs, a posted trivia night and a room whose shape rules itself out, none of the four earned a visit.
Four screens a venue has to pass, and one strong preference.
| Screen | Why | What it has cost us |
|---|---|---|
| Not a chain | The league exists to support small businesses. A local group of a few venues is fine; a corporation running dozens of bars is not. | Threes Brewing — five sites is past the three-to-four venue local group the screen allows. Everything else checked is independent or a small local group. |
| Inside the league boundary | Fixed by the commissioner’s map | Five bars, including All Night Skate’s arcade room |
| Room to throw | ~11 ft of depth and about 5 ft of clear wall per board. One board works; two is the preference. And it has to be indoors — the season runs Tuesdays through the winter, so a yard, patio or beer garden is not play space however big it is. | Hartley’s, Glorietta Baldy’s, Chilo’s, Sharlene’s, Doppelgänger and Fourth Avenue Pub — all too tight for even one lane; Sharlene’s on room shape rather than raw size. The crawl added Fulton Grand and Black Forest, and The Emerson, where the only usable wall is the one the pool table already owns |
| Free on Tuesdays | 3–4.5 hours, 15–16 people | Captain Dan’s, C’mon Everybody and the Crown Inn, all already booked; Tip Top and Rustik Tavern shut entirely |
| Vibe | A weekly darts night has to suit the bar. A restaurant that would not want a board on its wall is a no however big the floor, and so is a room that is wrong for a loud, standing, four-hour night. This is a judgement, not a measurement — which is why it is CJ’s to make and not a search result’s. | Doris, Washington Commons, Sound + Fury, Threes Brewing and Rustik Tavern, and now Black Forest and Fulton Grand from the crawl — seven venues, five of them with ample room |
Published listings cannot answer the two that matter. Bar guides describe drinks and atmosphere, never floor plans or who owns the place — which is why every ruling-out so far has come from a person, not a search. Treat every remaining unknown as genuinely unknown.
Twenty bars already hold a team, so none of these can be ours.
| Bar | Area |
|---|---|
| Moot Bar | 579 Myrtle Ave, Clinton Hill / Bed-Stuy line |
| Fulton Ale House | 1446 Fulton St, Bed-Stuy |
| Farrell’s Bar & Grill | 215 Prospect Park West, Windsor Terrace |
| Monro Pub | 481 5th Ave, Park Slope |
| Brazen Head | 228 Atlantic Ave, Boerum Hill |
| O’Keefe’s | 62 Court St, Downtown Brooklyn |
| 773 Lounge | 773 5th Ave, Sunset Park |
| The Commissioner | Park Slope |
| Logan’s Run | Gowanus / Park Slope |
| Boat Bar | Carroll Gardens, Smith St |
| Westbury | Park Slope |
| Shenanigans | Bay Ridge / Sunset Park |
| Prospect Bar & Grill | Park Slope / Prospect Heights |
| Finn’s Corner | Brooklyn |
| Paddy’s Pub | Park Slope |
| Uncle Barry’s | Park Slope / Prospect Heights |
| Rullo’s | Brooklyn |
| Smith’s Tavern | Brooklyn |
| The Craic | Brooklyn |
| Johnny Pumps | Brooklyn |