Private rooms, games, and mysterious red rooms: this is the “sexiest bar in New York”

The bar madam x he perceives himself as “the sexiest in New York”. What is happening inside the Houston Street store was released by the local media because they understand that this business and others like it are experiencing a real spring.

According to the New York Post, the growth of clients in bowling alleys and bars is exponential because there are fewer coronavirus protocols in the state. Now there are many more young people looking for new experiences, he says Amy McCloskeythe owner of Madam X.

Its bar, which opens almost every night, has particularities: there are private rooms, erotic games, male and female dancers, strippers, drag queens and astrologers.

Other “entertainment options” include “ladies only” strip classes, fancy chocolate, magician and projector screen.

In turn, the business has admitted private parties where available rooms are available, including the magical Red and Bedouin rooms.

The red room, perhaps the most charming of all, has been described as an atmosphere “full of red velvet and soft, flattering lighting. The various cozy seating areas glow because of the candlelight , and secluded corners such as our porch, provide a close area for smaller group gatherers.

Madame X has rules. To enter, you must be over 21 years old and have a valid photo ID, such as your ID or passport. You also can’t dress in any way: sneakers are recommended, but not gym clothes, baggy pants, T-shirt or baseball cap.

The Post released the story of Souffront, a man who had his first polyamorous experience with Madame X.

It all started with a “sexy card game” with friends, where the group loudly discussed their first masturbatory experiences. Souffront recounted that his girlfriend, who is seven years older than him, shared his idea to “experience” new things since they were together in quarantine.

A legendary New York bar

Chumley’s will never reopen. The pandemic caused the permanent closure of the historic bar of Greenwich Village. What would Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald or JD Salinger say?

Young writers with big ambitions should look for other tables where they can give free rein to their pen (or notebook). There will be other historic bars for them.

You arrive at 86 Bedford Street and see no visible sign that Chumley is there. There are only nice houses (nearby is the front of the flat where the Friends characters live).

After some timid consultation with a passerby, a first-timer at Chumley’s may realize that the bar is behind a dark black door.

Passing through the portal around 1922, in true Midnight in Paris style, the first thing you will encounter when you step into Chumley’s is a mysterious black void. You see nothing, you are a few seconds into a dark room that seems to have no bottom. Heavy curtains are next level.

By removing the large red cloth, Chumley’s exists. There is no doubt that the most important writers of the early 20th century sat there to create their works that were relevant later on.

On the walls are countless pictures of the artists and book covers they published, a tradition that was kept in the bar until the end of its days.

Chairs, tables and walls flirt with leather, gold sconces and wood. There are nooks and corners, exclusive and secret spaces and a thick bar where New Yorkers then drank incognito wine during the ban and the delicious signature drinks today.

It was opened by activist and writer Leland Chumley in ’22 with the goal of selling alcohol. Hence the boring black door without any sign. The place was a blacksmith’s shop and became a prohibited business.

The memory of those times continued until it closed: in the times before the pandemic, the bar served its customers drinks in tea glasses.

After closing in 2007 due to chimney collapse, repairs and reopening in 2016 and re -closing due to lockdown, in mid-2020 says owner Alessandro Borgognone how far we have come.

The bar that Leland opened and became famous over the years was completely demolished. Sadly, the old wall objects are sold at auctionindicating that dreams of reopening are farther than near.