Thursday, May 29, 2014

[Updated] A quick look at Coyote Ugly, now gutted on 1st Avenue



Coyote Ugly closed Tuesday for remodeling … with a grand reopening expected here at 153 First Ave. this coming Wednesday, according to the 21-year-old bar's website.

Well, they're not kidding around with that remodeling. EVG regular William Klayer took the above photo of the interior yesterday — not much left inside. A grand reopening next Wednesday seems optimistic at the moment.

Updated 2:34 p.m.

The Coyote Ugly floor is now outside the front doors. Get that wood while you can!


[Photo by William Klayer]

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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 29, 2014 at 9:05 AM

    This bar sucks so hard. Last time I stepped in there was years ago. It was one step in, then out again. All I can see is the renovations turning it even more stupid

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  2. vzabuserMay 29, 2014 at 9:53 AM

    Do we care?

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  3. Crazy EddieMay 29, 2014 at 10:35 AM

    I have lived here all my life. Must have walked by it a million times. Never went in. I am assuming that the experience would be similar to one I had when I went to Hogs and Heifers (not my choice) as part of my bachelor party experience back in the 90’s. After one my friends asked for a jukebox song selection, the women bartender started screaming at us to get the fuck out, the bouncers started to approach us; it took my friend who was a NYC police officer at the time to flash his badge, tell them that we were leaving and to back the fuck off. Like Hogs and Heifers, Coyote Ugly is a tourist trap for rubes.

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  4. AnonymousMay 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM

    When I first moved to the EV, Liliana, the owner of Coyote Ugly, was a bartender at the old Village Idiot, which was on first ave. It was an excellent little dive. After it closed, one of the partners of that bar opened Hogs & Heiffers, which did not start out as the tourist trap it is today, and Lilianna opened the Coyote Ugly. I'm not a fan of the bar, but she's done pretty well for herself.

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  5. nygrumpMay 29, 2014 at 1:26 PM

    people like their drugs and every third business in the e village depends on alcohol to exist - when cupcake storefronts claim they need to sell booze to survive, that is pathetic. Living here, I now understand the Temperance Movement.

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  6. MakeoutMay 29, 2014 at 2:14 PM

    I can't believe I actually watched that video yesterday.

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  7. AnonymousMay 29, 2014 at 2:50 PM

    Back in the '80s it was a gay bar, but I can't remember the name.

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  8. 3:02 pmMay 29, 2014 at 3:02 PM

    I already got a wood from watching that video yesterday.

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  9. AnonymousMay 29, 2014 at 7:36 PM

    Coyote Ugly wishes it were a tourist bar. Maybe the other branches are. But actually this one is just a total dive bar.

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