Hot Bird Throws Goodbye Bash Before Wrecking Ball

CLINTON HILL, BROOKLYN — A beloved Brooklyn bar is hosting a goodbye bash Saturday night before it is replaced by a 29-story high-rise, owners announced.

Hot Bird, the popular outdoor bar on Clinton Street and Atlantic Avenue, will shutter its doors for the last time on Dec. 8 as developers get ready to build a skyscraper on the lot.

"We are in the home stretch everyone ... the last days of Hot Bird," owners wrote on Instagram. "Big party night on our last night ever ... we'd love to see all our friends and neighbors."

Hot Bird is closing months after the Landmark Preservation Commission granted a special zoning permit to developer Hope Street Capital allowing them to build the tower at 550 Atlantic Ave. and the bar's lot.

Hope Street Capital's plan, designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, calls for a 312-foot-tall concrete and glass tower with a rooftop-tower overlooking Atlantic Avenue.

Developers will also restore the historic Italian Romanesque-style Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew at 520 Atlantic Ave., which was damaged in a "suspicious" 2012 fire, according to reports.

Hot Bird's name belongs to a local joint that left behind only a bold yellow sign promising "the best B-B-Q in New York," but without clear instructions where exactly to find it, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The bar has since become a favorite neighborhood spot for low-key outdoor drinking since opening in 2010.

The final Hot Bird bash will include Brazilian beats from DJ Sean Marquand, owners said. This information was imparted in an Instagram photo of a cockeyed chicken who seems to say, "Farewell!"

Header photos courtesy of the Landmark Preservation Commission and GoogleMaps