Monday, April 11, 2016

The Crocodile Lounge introduces its new clean, green awning


[The previous awning via Malcolm Brown/NYCGo]

As noted earlier this month, the awning disappeared from the Crocodile Lounge, 325 E. 14th St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue... apparently it was damaged by a strong gust of wind...


[April 2]

...Now, a reader on East 14th Street notes this afternoon that the new awning has arrived... and it's very green (and clean)...

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the old awning better.

Why not an awning painted like a crocodile with the head leading into the entrance?

A foam crocodile on top a la whatever was on top of the old Continental and Lone Star Cafe (dinosaur former, lizard latter? I forgot.)

Use your imagination folks!

Morgan Tsvangirai said...

I agree with the first comment, not the rude second one.

They should go even further though and see if they can get some kind of zoning variance for an entrance like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Gatorland_entrance_-Florida-23Feb2006.jpg

Anonymous said...

The new color is better but the pedestrian typeface is lazy and lousy. Original stylized typeface had a specific character. Now it looks like any old bar with an awning that I'd pass up.

Scuba Diva said...

Well, this one is more similar to the awning at their Alligator Lounge on Metropolitan Avenue; my guess is they wanted it to match.

Anonymous said...

New one's better all way around.

Anonymous said...

Wow, the new awning is really terrible. The crocodile lounge just lost some of its identity using that new type face.

Anonymous said...

New awning sucks. The old awning had a sort of, crocodile-y "E". If that makes sense.

Anonymous said...

Oh My God. If you don't like the awning go out and buy yourself a space, open a bar and put up your own awning. What bilge some people put up!