If it wasn't already evident, the Decline of the Lower East Side is official with a NYPost article charting the nabe's fall from hipster grace. New evidence: the space that holds new three-ring circus Libation cost $2 million (not counting Lizzie Grubman's retainer); owner says, "We want to raise the level of what's going on around here." And: the owner of Ludlow Street's Dark Room declares his own bar over:
Jason Baron, owner of the 6-month-old bar the Dark Room, says the bridge-and-tunnel factor is so high on Friday and Saturday nights that he steers clear of his own establishment. "I go over to my friends' houses to drink," he says.(Spoiler alert: We're quoted in the article. Whore, whore, whore &c.)
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· Press Release Du Jour: Libation [Curbed]
· Pomeranc's Allen Street Hotel: Domination! [Curbed]
· Hotel Mania Continues on Lower East Side [Curbed]
· Luna Lounge Out, More Condos In [Curbed]
· Last Call Tonight at Barramundi [Curbed]
· Further Evidence of Lower East Side's Tragic Decline [Curbed]