‘The lights, the music. Gone. COVID killed what the elders in Footloose couldn’t. For the months that followed, the idea of breathing the same bodily fluid-filled air as hundreds of strangers became as appealing as licking a hospital doorknob.’
Tag: Brooklyn Standard
“Same old story: boy meets boy. Boys get on the piss together. Boys say ‘One day, let’s open a bar together… seven years later Manny and I opened Brooklyn Standard together.”
The Bowery has been picked up by the team behind 2019 Live Music Bar of the Year, Brooklyn Standard, and is set to open on February 6 as Susie Wongs Goodtime Bar.
When we visit, De Beer has opened the ground floor level of what will eventually be a three-level Hello Gorgeous; a function space and private dining room is on the second floor overlooking the bar below, whilst the final stage of the venue will see a set of stairs ascending to a rooftop bar.