Members-only canine club coming to NYC touts DJs, cocktails and could cost $1,400 a year right next to a free dog park

This place is off the leash.An exclusive, members-only canine park touted as the “Soho House for dogs” is coming to Williamsburg, The Post has learned — but Brooklyn dog lovers are turning up their cold, wet noses.Dog PPL — whose California members pay $1,400 a year in dues — will offer DJ sets, cocktail nights, a full kitchen and more for yuppies and their puppies on the corner of McCarren Park, just steps away from the public dog run.“It’s very conducive to this neighborhood: building a ‘bougie’ version of something that’s free,” local dog owner Scott Gary, 31, told The Post.Dog PPL signed a 10-year lease to open an 18,000-square-foot private, rooftop dog park at 12 Berry St., with an anticipated opening date of summer 2025, according to Richard Babeck of Tri-State Realty, who helped broker the deal.The private doggie park — which would ban outside toys and pups that haven’t been fixed — will sit atop what will soon be the new pickleball hotspot, Padel Haus.Babeck described the trendy combination as an “adult playground” aimed at drawing in young people — but sees no concerns with the location just 1,500 feet away from the public McCarren Park Dog Run.“You can get a cheeseburger from a halal cart on the street, but it’s a very different experience when you go to Shake Shack, right?” Babeck, a dog owner, said.McCarren park dog owners on Tuesday told The Post they felt the pickleball-dog park combo was capitalizing on too many buzzwords.“I don’t understand the connection of drinks and DJs and a dog park.Seems like dogs wouldn’t be into that,” said Sunnyside resident Molly, 35, who makes daily visits to the public dog park with her greyhound, Hank.Richa Mischra, 27, of Williamsburg pointed out that the idea sounds similar to local joint Boris & Horton, a dog-friendly cafe, that shuttered in May after just one year.Dog PPL appears to be more of a “society thing,” she said “Boris & Horton was cool because i...

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