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205 Bar is a lower east side live music venue. Located in the world of Chrystie Street, it straddles the dark world between the lower east side and Chinatown. Part of the allure of the 'dark world' is, oddly enough, that it is dark. How could hipsters and wannabees gravitate to a place where the street lights were turned on and the glare of a commercial street screams, "We're all here!" This is the Chrystie Street allure . . . and the charm fades once you hit 30.

Like many bars, restaurants and entertainment spaces in New York City, 205 Bar is owned by folks who also own other places. In the case of 205 Chrystie, the owners' pedigree also includes ownership of the Kenmare Street Mexican Tequila Bar known as La Esquina. The bouncers there have a reputation for being heavy handed, volatile, combative and thuggish. Since 205 Bar and La Esquina are members of the same family, there are reports the doormen at 205 Bar can also exercise myopic judgment in this regard.

Interior, modular couches, brick walls, folding chairs, grunge
interior of 205 bar, duck tape on furniture not shown
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Organized graffiti flashes on the walls, Live Music Stage Left
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Did you know?
January 2009 - The latest hipster joint for socializing and drinking comes in the form of the subterranean lounge, Chloe. To enter, you must know the doorway, for that is the true mark of the hipster wold in 2009. Door knowledge is power (so is the number of a good car service late at night). In this case, the door is on Ludlow Street and Chloe is right underneath the French bistro Casanis. So now you know. Doesn't the photo to the right look like a lucious banquette.
the underground bar lounge, Chloe
Beware, the leftover white subway tile from McNally's Schiller's Liquor Bar is a featured part of the decor here! Soft lights, red banquettes, nice date place if there was anything else around.

January 2009 - While it was announced during 2008 that Streit's matzo factory would pull up its roots on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side, the economic downturn of the summer and fall of 2008 altered those plans for the factory.
The company's initial hope was to leave the lower east side and move its factory operations entirely to New Jersey. This caused quite an uproar when it was announced in 2008; many decried the final days of the Jewish Lower East Side were near (Katz Deli still holds down a corner on East Houston Street).

   
 
 
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