Neighborhood News: 'Please God No'

Ray's takes over in Greenpoint.

- Brock Colyar

IT’S OPENING NIGHT at the new Ray’s in Greenpoint and already the floor is sticky. Several people have spilled drinks on the pool table, and the room smells—not entirely unpleasantly—like the onion rings, hot wings, and bologna sandwiches being passed around. “I didn’t want to wear the cowboy hat but felt like I had to,” says Matt Rossi, a member of TikTok boy gang the East Villains, who is exactly the kind of person you might expect to see at the