We've been curious about what would be taking over the Lakeside Lounge space on Avenue B... BoweryBoogie got the scoop late last week — the place will be called Blackbird, "owned and operated by Lakeside principal Laura McCarthy and a current 'bartender from Niagara.'"
Per BB's tipster:
Definitely NOT a whiskey bar. And not a dive. Just a bar for people who don’t want to be part of the woo-woo scene and who are too smart to wait in line for an $22 cocktail. [It's] intended to be a beautiful but comfortable bar with a rock & roll vibe.
And they're opening tonight, per a BoweryBoogie follow-up post. BB received an invite, which reads in part:
Please join us for riveting deejays, nightly open bar from 9-10 p.m, and simply the most charming people you will ever see in one room together ever again.
Late yesterday afternoon, we saw workers racing to get the place together...
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UPDATED:
The opening has been postponed... no opening date just yet...
9 comments:
Get in early and claim it.
I swear I just passed by there the other day and it was completely empty. Pretty impressive that they got it up so quick.
sounds inordinately promising. hope it all pans out that way!!!
Maybe that's a sign it's going to be a regular bar. You know...tables, stools, booze, beer, juke, maybe a dart board and pool table. Doesn't take long to assemble that kind of stuff.
Nightly open bar? Sounds a little wooo-friendly.
"riveting deejays"
Jonathan Toubin will be spinning there. He plays old soul music and is one of the most popular underground deejays in NYC. Riveting is right! This seems like a really cool group effort.
Offering a one hour open bar to the neighborhood is woo-friendly? Man, tough customers. Maybe they shoulda made it a $30 cocktail lounge after all.
Please be a cool bar and not some scum-bucket yuppie hang....stay in the LES yuppies. At LEAST leave us Alphabet Town....
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