It's bedtime for the babies hanging out at the bars of Brooklyn. Local watering holes have decided to set a kid curfew to help the kid-less folks enjoy a baby-free night.

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Radegast and Spritzenhaus, two Williamsburg, Brooklyn, bars modeled after German beer halls, usually have high volumes of customers who drown out any baby noises. But the owners now feel it is best to have adults-only evenings. Why are babies at these bars? About eight years ago, Williamsburg became popular with many of the city's young residents looking for an inexpensive place to live. But now those "hipsters" are becoming "yupsters," starting families of their own. With increased gentrification, new condos, and more conveniences added, Williamsburg has become an ideal place for young families, including parents who still want to enjoy a night out. According to DNAinfo.com, these bars welcome many mommies with kids during the day, but Radegast has just limited their stay to 8 pm and Spritzenhaus now asks kids to leave at 7 pm.

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They are not the first Brooklyn bars to call a curfew for baby barflies. Over in the kid-dominated Park Slope, reports Gothamist, some bars even start the no-baby/kid policy as early as 4 pm. One Park Slope resident, Risa Chubinsky, authored a (humorous) complaint letter that was published in the New York Times' Cityroom blog. Her argument was that "bars are not family-friendly" and that "if I am out drinking and sobbing about a bad breakup, I don't want my cries to compete with those of an infant sitting next to me." Chubinsky even witnessed a father change his child's diaper openly on a table at a beer hall in the borough of Queens.

Do you think babies belong in bars? Should there be a kid curfew?

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