Photobooth Bars in NY: Document Your Drunkiness
Picture yourself in a booth in a bar, man, drunk on Red Stripe and tangerine Skyy. Photobooths are the best strip of nostalgia $3-4 can buy you. The delights are manifold. The cloistered privacy behind the curtain. The blinding flash. The minute long wait while the pictures print. And finally, four B&W photos stacked vertically, a portrait of your life over 3 seconds. Here are some New York bars that have photobooths. From their locations (mostly in the East Village and Brooklyn) it seems hipsters are more obsessed with documenting their drunkeness than say, Murray Hill editorial assistants or Upper East Side jocks.
Union Pool: Victor Ozols loves to hate this Williamsburg hipster haven. Some of us hate to love it.
Otto's Shrunken Head: East Village Tiki bar, cocktails come with glow stick and umbrella, photobooth in B&W, next to Deer Hunting game.
Bubby's Tribeca: Tribeca Yuppie heaven, clogged with strollers but you can't beat the pie. Booth is downstairs. Smells vaguely like urine.
Lakeside Lounge: East Village bar channels Michigan laxity. Photobooth photos available online.
Enid's: Greenpoint day/night spot, great brunch, good dj's, photobooth. Packed on weekends with people skinnier than you are which makes me wonder if they really do eat the delicious pork sandwiches and fluffy eggs.
Pop: The location manages to be central but alienating (4th Ave and 13th St). The burgers are 12 dollars but good. The clientele however manages to look rich and cheap at the same time. The photos, happily, are good ol' fashioned B&W for $3.
Union Pool [Gridskipper]
Otto's Shrunken Head [Gridskipper]
Bubby's [Official site]
Lakeside Lounge [Official site]
Enid's [Official site]
Pop [NYT circa 1999]
[Photo: Photobooth.net]
Previously: NYC Barface Was Here, Caracas Arepas Bar, Everybody's A Winner at Winnie's, Williamsburg Beer Dominance, Happy Hour at the Fat Black Pussycat