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Ninety years of the Montero, Brooklyn’s legendary Galician bar

Alejandro Santos — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT

Years ago, you could sense the Galician influence on the Brooklyn waterfront. Dockworkers looked forward to the end of their shift so they could warm their bones with whisky, good company, and a caldo gallego. To get there, one had to turn one’s back on the bay and the Manhattan skyline, walk up Atlantic Avenue following the crews who had just disembarked, and let oneself be guided by a succession of neon signs in the red-light district that was then the Spanish corner of Brooklyn Heights. It was there that Spanish migrants served those who labored on the docks, plus sailors, the ones who had docked for a few days and the ones who were aground indefinitely. A dozen bars, many with Spanish names, flanked the street as though it were the entryway to an entirely different continent. The neighborhood lived and died within unmapped borders in the great city, permanently mired in a sensation halfway between rootlessness and homesickness. But the death blow came when the docks closed in the 1970s. The sailors left, the rents started going up, and the “gallegos” left seeking new ports, some returning to their native shores in northwestern Spain, others going further inland, others six feet under. Just two bars, the Long Island and the Montero — owned by two siblings who spent 50 years on opposite sides of the same street without speaking to each other — withstood the test of time and money thanks to their family motto of “buy, don’t rent.” The notion of securing a place where they could die in peace was deeply ingrained in the immigrant subconscious. The Long Island was sold years ago. The Montero will soon mark nine decades on its side of the port, but even Atlantic Avenue’s last Galician remnant has just changed hands.

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