Lower East Side or THE for intimate THE neighborhood is hype to get out. 3-4 small blocks filled with trendy bars, bohemian, concept. The all New Yorkers found there every night to go to his bar. Because neighborhood is a neighborhood geek. Far from the neon lights, the entries are hidden, to be sure to be among the initiated. I've spend my early evenings, accompanied by local strangers. I wanted to go back then, impossible to find places. It took me over 3 months to find cool places ...
the extreme: the Backroom . No ads, web site, or flyers. On site, no sign recognizable, and the obligatory bouncer (for checker IDs - whether you are over 21 years) to cover only arise if you do enter mine. After the dark corridor, a courtyard with a door at the bottom, which finally opens on the bar. Ambiance Prohibition ... And if we know the tenant, we can discover the back room, or have already seen entering Penn, Pacino, Pesci and DeNiro. Together. Impossible to find, then, but everybody knows. Ask a random person, it will indicate the overall direction, adding that she herself is never gone. A magical place, which is deserved.
But more simply, and can always find her favorite bar, to the plush sofa, which spends 50 years old movies on TV the same age, beer $ 2, etc.. And here as elsewhere, the mood artist to discover new things, including the free jazz. Some examples below, by clicking on the pictures!
I want to clarify that they do not have their instruments in the last video, it's really their music. And if you absolutely have to see the photos closely, and recognize William Parker , they are the .
EDIT 01/07/08 (nobody will): The LES is too, as one leaves a bit of a few blocks hyper-branches, or the district have settled the first Jewish state United in 1680. Despite the years, and the development of increasingly intrusive the nearby Chinatown , there are some poignant relics : cemetery, synagogue , Yiddish newspaper ... Backpacking in there, you meet a strange mix of people: Jews, Chinese, Puerto Ricans . Cultures, religions, lifestyles completely different mingle without ever sacrificing melting pot which fortunately never works. I discovered here late, what it meant truly cosmopolitan.
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