It is a dive bar featuring a multi-level lounge, pool table, dancefloor, and backyard patio.

[1] Since its founding, Metropolitan has hosted weekly barbecues on its back patio on Sundays from Memorial Day weekend to the end of September.

[2] Metropolitan sits on a lot previously occupied by a colonial-era cemetery that was likely owned by the First Reformed Dutch Church of Williamsburgh.

From 1927 to 2000, the building now on the lot was occupied by Milo's Restaurant, a bar that initially operated as a Prohibition-era speakeasy.

[5] The accused perpetrator was arrested on a variety of assault and hate crime charges and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.