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Posted by partyhopper on Jul-15-2004 23:29:

Village Idiot closing

Now this is really sad

http://bbs.clubplanet.com/showthread.php?t=234613

From today's Page 6

RENT HIKE DOOMS BAR

SKYROCKETING rents in the oppressively trendy Meatpacking District have claimed another victim. The Village Idiot is closing at the end of the month because owner Tom McNeil couldn't afford the big bucks his landlord demanded. The divey honky-tonk bar on West 14th Street was a neighborhood fixture for a decade, as well as a location shoot for TV's "Law & Order" and the movies "Copland" and "Rounders." McNeil, who also founded faux-redneck joints Hogs and Heifers and Doc Hollidays, is sickened by the changes in his once gritty neighborhood. "I think it's going to yuppie hell," he told us. "If I was gonna start charging $7.50 for a shot of Wild Turkey, I could stay open, but I refuse to do that. This is a bar for regular people. I'm not interested in the fashion crowd � they can go to the Stella McCartney store down the street." McNeil, who still owns Yogi's on the Upper West Side and the Patriot in TriBeCa, is hoping to resurrect the Idiot somewhere downtown.
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Posted by hitokiri on Jul-16-2004 00:01:

damn it !!! they definitley had some niiiiiiiiiiiiice bartenders

Posted by Sunshine79 on Jul-16-2004 00:01:

OMG!!!!!!! no!!

that was the first bar i ever went to in NYC.

well, the first i was sober enough to remember.

Posted by butterfly on Jul-16-2004 02:34:

shitty! that place was killer! the meatpacking district will soon be off my list completely... (esp if direct drive leaves rare)

Posted by Ner0 on Jul-16-2004 04:29:

Loved the place!
Hot bartenders, cheap licor... Country musics wasnt too pleasent

Posted by Uebermann on Jul-16-2004 12:51:

It sucks...guess I have to do one last stop there tonite

Posted by DirtyDave on Jul-16-2004 13:20:

That focking blows!! I have so many hazy memories of that place, esp from college. How could you not like PBR's and Nattie Lights at a abar while porn is on the TV and hotties are everywhere.