@ hoodd*ck: Absolutely agree! Isn't this site written/led by people who are in their mid-20's and thus weren't of age and likely not even living in NY during the late 90's or early 2000's? Hence the ridiculous comments implying some relation between an only-OK hipster den and TRULY legendary spots. All these newcomers know is the bottle service era and so the coolest thing they can reference (IF they were even there) is the B. So we can't blame them -- it's hard to miss or understand something you were never a part of. Indeed, the writer here quotes a Beatrice regular's article in which that person concedes this was her "first time going out in New York City." I guess if you first moved to NY and had the B vs., for example, 27th Street (not when there was just Bungalow there but rather late 2005-2006 when it became overrun with cornball places)... then, yeah, you'd probably think the B was the coolest spot in the past decade. Think again.

12:53 PM on November 6

@ "enoughalready" -- your comments are always spot-on. Keep 'em coming. Beatrice was a terrific spot, I enjoyed it and miss it, but to compare it to legendary NY institutions is just off. The only NY spot of the past decade to achieve legendary well-deserved status is Bungalow in the early 2000's. What other place could you walk into and spot Sean Penn at one table, a starving artist in another, and a WASP banker all meshed together perfectly? Do the doormen of "the B" evoke the same nostalgic smiles and stories that the names Armin and Disco do? Amy was a tour de force -- the magic of Bungalow will, unfortunately, never be duplicated.

01:36 PM on November 5