The New Yorker
The room up front is like something out of "Twin Peaks": strangers mingle, with eerie folksiness, at the long bar, and an avant-retro soundtrack of blues, jazz and country songs pour out of the speakers.
The New York Times
Inside is a long, narrow space dark and cool enough to obliterate the four lanes of traffic out front. One wall is taken up by a candle-lighted 30-foot antique wooden bar. At the end of the bar, heavy red drapes hang from a winch once used to raise tombstones during the building’s days as a supplier of funeral monuments.
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Mercury Lounge is located at 217 East Houston Street in New York City's lower east side.
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