Crown Heights Cheese Cave Shutters After 8 Years In Neighborhood

CROWN HEIGHTS, NY — Crown Finish Caves announced the closure of its Crown Heights cheese business at the end of May.

The popular cheese business at 925 Bergen St. did not specify its reasoning for closing, but did say it would be sharing more news soon.

"As many of you know, we are closing the doors to Crown Finish Caves," Crown Finish Caves wrote on its Instagram. "It's been a journey and we've brought to life some amazing cheeses with exceptionally gifted and talented producers and employees."

Comments on the post were filled with warm memories and well wishes.

"You guys are amazing, and we'll always have warm memories of the events we threw in the always cool caves," one person commented.

"Thanks for years of amazing cheese, collaborations, and cool ideas," another person wrote. "Y'all will be missed."

The Brooklyn cheese company added that it would share a profile of each producer that produced cheese in its facility over the past eight years.

The business was located 30-feet below street level, within an aging facility in the former lagering tunnels of the Nassau Brewery.

The average temperature year-round was 50 degrees and its main tunnel held 28,000 pounds of cheese. It supplied cheese to some of the top restaurants in New York City.

Some of its top tellers included barnburner cheddar and its Carpenter's Wheel goat cheese.

You can learn more about what Crown Finish Caves did on its website.