Painkiller tiki bar coming to New York City’s Lower East Side

It looks like the tiki scene has reached a tipping point in NYC — it’s been announced that another new tiki bar, to be named Painkiller, will be opening in March in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

The new establishment is being operated by some of the owners of Dutch Kills in the space formerly used by East Side Company Bar, and is described as “planning to blend 1970s New York culture and 1940s tiki culture.” Grass skirts and 12-inch clear acrylic pumps? Ritualized muggings in Central Park? The combinations are mind-boggling…

Read Dutch Kills Team To Open Tiki Lounge on Lower East Side at ny.eater.com | Mahalo, Tom D. Kline

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