NYC'ers: El Teddy's Took the Crown Down...why nobody tell me?

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Apparently it happened in January. Not only is the crown gone, but so is the restaurant (the latter being no big deal, really.)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The restaurant, known for its potent margaritas and giant replica of the Statue of Liberty crown on the roof, appeared in the opening credits of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" for nearly a decade. It will close Saturday after failing to recover from the 2001 terrorist attack on the nearby World Trade Center.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

blame the terrorists why dontchya, kitchy hell-hole.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 13 September 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say the reason it shut is because it was way way way fucking overpriced. No doubt the rent was crazy for that place but jeez. The nachos were like twelve bucks or something, it was ridiculous. At least the Baby Doll Lounge survived.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

is that the place with the burritos or am I thinking of the other place?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

When are you ever NOT thinking of the other place?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm usually thinking of the Baby Doll Lounge, but is that still there?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I have no idea. I just figure titties be resilient.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought the bouncer of the Baby Doll a White Owl once.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two words: silicone leakage.

(actually I think the Baby Doll is gone but that one that's on the corner of Church & White [STOPLESS BAR] is still there but I could be wrong about that too. I'm never in Tribeca.)

(I'm never anywhere aside from Brooklyn and around work, it seems.)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

At least the Baby Doll Lounge survived.

I went to the Baby Doll lounge with some friend last year after seeing Jonathan Richman at the Knitting Factory. It was a chamber of horrors. That it's survived benefits absolutely no one. And there hasn't been any silicone in that place for decades.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh so it is still there? Is it the one on the corner?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, they may have changed the name, but it's the one on the corner (across from the tip of the Tribeca Grand).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

to both? Okay I guess I was getting it confused with a place down the street (that I know for sure is gone).

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Holiday House or something? That skeezy lap-dance factory? That's long gone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember what it's called, I just remember it's near the Dream House (not a stripjoint).

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dunno. Anyway, back on topic, I was never a fan of El Teddy's, but I love the Liberty sculpture and was shocked and saddened to find it missing yesterday.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 13 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Last time I was at the Baby Doll I felt like I was in a Jodorowsky movie: fat middle aged strippers and leering Central American patrons.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 13 September 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Fat and middle aged = you were not at the Baby Doll Lounge!! (unless it was like a fetish night or something) BDL strippers are almost exclusively black, thin, and like 19, which makes it even more of a chamber of horrors in a way. I remember asking somoene if it was a place for girls who were "on the way up" or "on the way down" and the response was "they're not on their way anywhere" yikes. Although the night I was there these two white girls showed up who didn't know anyone, and they were obviously strippers, and they talked to the owner for a little bit and he let them give the DJ a Limp Bizkit compilation CD they'd brought with them and they did their thing for like fifteen minutes each. They were from Boston, "working their way down to Virginia" or something like that. Before anyone think I've got some secret lapdance vice, I've been to exactly two strip bars in my life, and that was one of them. And they don't do lapdances.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway back to the topic, sorry Alex! Personally my favorite thing about El Teddy's was the psychedelic lightshow in the windows.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

All I really remember about that evening at the BDL after Jonathan Richman (which was a shit show, by the way -- tired naive schtick in a packed room with no air conditioning) was desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the stripper, who looked like the bald chick in the first Star Trek film after a rigorous case of leprosy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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