As previously mentioned ... The Urge Lounge, the gay bar/club that closed at the end of 2012 at 31-33 Second Ave., is moving to 14 Avenue B between Houston and East Second Street...
And the Urge folks have just shared a few details about the new space via Twitter...
We are moving to 14 Avenue B and our new name will be Epic City Pub,the first gay pub in the East Village. Date TBA
— Urge Lounge (@LoungeUrge) January 16, 2013
What changes or new things would you like to see do at our new location to be: 14 Avenue B @ East 2nd Street in the East Village.
— Urge Lounge (@LoungeUrge) January 16, 2013
No opening date just yet...
isn't phoenix on 13th and A a gay bar?
ReplyDeleteHopefully they keep the rough trade go go boys around for pos-work happy hour!
ReplyDeleteI loved happy hour with Frankie! Miss him!
Delete*post-work
ReplyDeleteThey'll get raided most likely, nothing is going to change other than to get worse.
ReplyDeleteNYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who continues to lead the Democratic field, was jeered at a National Action Network forum last night after reiterating that she would keep Ray Kelly as NYPD commissioner if she’s elected.
Are they in already, or do they have to go before the Community Board? Anybody know?
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ReplyDeleteThe CB3 approve their application last August (or maybe September)...
But they still are not tenants yet of that space. They'll probably open in May. There's so much to be done to a place to open it, especially if they're putting in a kitchen.
DeleteFifty million cheers for the fine folks at urge!
ReplyDeleteThe gays will save us now!!!
Isn't the Boiler Room on 4th St a gay pub?
ReplyDeleteSo does that mean that every other pub is a "straight" pub?
ReplyDeleteBoiler Room is a gay dive bar.
ReplyDeleteThe first gay pub???.. If they mean it is the first gay 'pub' I beg to differ, 13th step clearly beat them to that title...
ReplyDeleteAfter extensive, exhaustive online research, I still cannot exactly determine the difference between an American pub and a bar.
ReplyDeleteI'd say a pub serves food.
DeleteI miss Boysroom on Ave A that's now a "sports bar". If they only knew how many butt naked Go Go Idol contestants danced on that bar...
ReplyDeleteAre they saying somewhere that Epic City Pub will be "for gay people only"?
ReplyDeleteIsn't that stupid? Gay people eat everywhere. A gay bar and grill? So dumb. I understand a gay bar, but gay bar and grill? Epic City Fail.
Delete@Ken - you should duck into Shades of Green pub on 15th and Irving for a terrific shepards pie and a pint. They even keep rooms to let upstairs, like a public house used to!
ReplyDeleteplease keep those cute go-go boys
ReplyDeleteThey can't have go-go boys where they are going. Community board over there said HELL NO! I don't know what they're gonna do. I only went there for that.
Delete"First"???? I think they're extremely confused.
ReplyDeleteI think a pub technically has to serve food, right? So Phoenix would not qualify. (They were lovely neighbors during Sandy, btw.)
ReplyDeleteBut Queen Vic certainly would qualify, right? I mean I'm all for Epic City doing their thing but I'm not sure they're the first EV gay pub.
Anon 3:55 I miss Boysroom too! Michael Formika is such a wonderful East Villager. He's got a party at Phoenix on Wednesdays, too! I only wish I were still able to go out at night, but it's best for myself and society that I don't. :)
Walt, are you drunk? where / what said it was for "gay people only"?
ReplyDeleteIt does't say ONLY, but it does specifically say 'New York's first gay pub." what I would like to know is, what makes it 'gay'? That's what's confusing.
DeleteActually, I really hate the name though. A gay bar should have a good name. Like "Sir Lance a lot's" or "Ram Rod" or The Greased Pole" or "Brown Eyed Nellie's".
ReplyDeleteThe name sounds like some bar in Minnesota or something. There's nothing gay or New York about it.
Delete@Anon 9:59 Or Fist City!
ReplyDeleteNobody is gonna go there. The Cock has a happy hour now with Frankie.
ReplyDeleteHe's at The Cock!?!??! Are you sure? Someone said the urge fired him, is that true?
DeleteViva Frankie! Love him!
DeletePLEASE re-think that name.
ReplyDeleteWe do not need something called "Epic" here unless it's a movie theater.
It better be Epic. It better live up to the name
DeleteIt's a gay bar thank god for that no matter the name its a place for gay people to go people stop thinking so much and go drink everyone at the old urge was cool and crazy and fun. just go wherever u wanna go and have fun and be gay.
ReplyDeleteGo to The Cock! 2-4-1 happy hour til 10! The Urge's happy hour was til 9!
Delete"Epic City Pub" sounds like an oxymoron. And since most of the Urge customers seemed to not be from the neighborhood, I don't see them making the effort 3 blocks over, and not just a few steps from the subway.
ReplyDeleteEpic City Fail. No go-go boys either? Same NOT good looking unfriendly staff RIP.
ReplyDeleteFirst? The people of that bar need to get over themselves.
DeleteThe cock has the bet go-go boys and SPERM SUNDAY'S rule!
ReplyDeleteYeh the best happy hour is Frankies at the Cock
ReplyDeleteWhere else in the East Village can you get 4 for 1's!!
I really loved this bar. Anyone who trashed it does not know it true value....... I feel bad for anyone who never went there. I came out there. It was a home for many of us. Please come back.............
ReplyDeleteI been going to urge for ten years there not ugly and not mean once you get to know them I totally support any gay bar in the east village
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