Photo via Bateman's
Two East Village residents are behind Bateman's, a new cocktail bar on Sixth Street. The bar's name and concept are based on Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, a black comedy horror novel from 1991 (and a 2000 film starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman).
The lounge, via husband-wife duo Carlo Olcese and Natasha Van Duser, with baroque-style paintings and Tiffany chandeliers, features a 10-seat bar and a 20-seat dining area for the small-plates-style menu.
Bateman's, 308 E. Sixth St., between First Avenue and Second Avenue, is open daily from 5 p.m. to midnight and closes at 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
If you're on Instagram, you can check out pics of the drinks here.
No word if there's any Huey Lewis & the News on the bar's soundtrack.
"Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor."
ReplyDeleteBTW, after this article was posted, can someone please check up on Jeremiah Moss? I am concerned. After all:
ReplyDelete""Yunnie" stands for Young Urban Narcissist. An obvious play on the outmoded "yuppie," this neologism was my earlier attempt to grasp a mass cultural shift currently generating and feeding on tremendous change in New York City--and much of the country.
While "yuppie" was aimed at professionals, describing people of a certain socioeconomic bracket, "yunnie" described a characterological type.
I originally introduced the yunnie in August of 2007. Since then, my ideas about the narcissistic personality and its effect on New York City have evolved. It's no longer a term I use, but you'll still find it scattered among old posts."
BTW, I am a fan of his, got his book and went to one of his book signings.
https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2007/08/young-urban-narcissists_08.html
Anything "themed" is for tourists and transients.
ReplyDeleteKorova Milk Bar was for locals, and "transients" were part of us in those days.
DeleteNaming your bar after Patrick Bateman is the embodiment of "Tell me you're a douche without telling me you're a douche."
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when people moved to the city to get away from others like this
ReplyDeleteI kinda wish it was named after Jason Bateman, with oil paintings of him and drinks named after the various characters he played: The David Hogan, the Michael Bluth, the Marty Byrde, the Pepper Brooks, the Nick Hendricks
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