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Look What Happened To The Old Brooklyn Navy Cocktail Lounge
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 12, 2011
Modified Oct 12, 2011
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The mysteriously creepy dive bar called the Navy Cocktail Lounge closed for good last year, concluding a century-long run that began way back in 1907. Located across Flushing Avenue from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, it had served as an ideally located watering hole for generations of longshoremen and sailors. In its later years the Navy became a lapdance joint where "every few minutes Delicious or Cinnamon or Diamond walks up and asks again if you'd like a dance," EV Grieve once reported. Well, take a gander at the old gal now.
It's unclear what the location is going to become, but with all that glass you can bet it's not going to be another lapdance joint. It's currently up for grabs, and being rented out by "real estate specialist" Eliot Dweck, who wasn't available for comment at press time. But for reference, here's what it looked like in the glory days:
(Courtesy EV Grieve)
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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