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Single Room Occupancy

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360 W. 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
near Ninth Ave.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-765-6299 Send to Phone

Yun Cee Ng

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C, E at 50th St.

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There's no sign outside this basement hideaway, just a glowing green sconce and the faintest throb of hip-hop music. But don't worry: No one's going to ask you for the password; just ring the buzzer. Suddenly it's as if you'd passed through some magic portal, transporting you from Ninth Avenue to Ludlow Street, or maybe Berlin—where a diverse, good-looking crowd sips beer and wine in a shadowy space the size of a small Starbucks.

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Fantastic

cmrougeron from midtown | Posted on 2/13/05

Overall Reader Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)

Elegant, different, unique

For Whom the Bell Tolls...

KRZa from Alphabet City | Posted on 6/6/03

Overall Reader Rating: 2 (Not Recommended)

DING DONG! With its mysterious peephole and quirky doorbell, Single Room Occupancy might be the first bar especially designed for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Below street level and way off the radar, SRO certainly has a mystique. But aura alone doesn’t...Read More

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