Gen Z attends events at NYC's Brooklyn Game Knight and Sip & Play
Gen Z is drinking alcoholand alcohol-free bars that have been sprouting up throughout the Big Apple in recent years to accommodate what some are saying is a sign of changing times.“I think our generation is very aware, like a lot of us are activists and I think that awareness influences our drinking habits,” Aedin Weisenberg, 22, told The Post last week as he painted a figurine at Brooklyn Game Knight in Industry City.
Owner Frank L. Szelwach, 47, notes that customers run the gamut from early twenties to their early fifties, but has noticed that the younger crowds drink far less than their older counterparts.Owner Frank L. Szelwach noticed that the young adults who visit Brooklyn Game Knight in Industry City tend to drink less than its older patrons.“When people of the previous generation think of drinking, they think of binge drinking.
On the other hand, drinking has surged among adults aged 55 and older, going from 49% to 59% over the span of 20 years. Co-owner Garret Peterson, 42, opened the shop to offer people a sense of “functionable euphoria” and a place to hang out late at night without the social pressures of alcohol. “I definitely see Gen Z drinking less. And I think that‘s great. They need as much energy and intelligence as they can get to find their way through this world and a place in the workforce,” said Breandan, 30, a co-owner of Here and Now NYC, a temporarily closed sober bar in the East Village that served Kava, a natural drug billed at proving the same sensations as alcohol without the side effects.
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