Wreck Room
The Subterraneans at The Wreck Room, image c/o Flickr
940 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11206
between Evergreen and Central Sts.
PHONE: 718.418.6347
HOURS: Daily, 6pm-4am
CARDS: Cash Only
HAPPY HOUR: Daily, 6pm-10pm; $2 beers and well drinks
GAMES: Pool, Pinball
MAP: Click Here
SUBWAY: L to Morgan Ave.
VILLAGE VOICE SAYS: Wreck Room is a newer addition to Bushwick, situated conveniently across the street from neighborhood favorite Life Café. A steady roster of great DJs, kindly-priced beers, pool tables and the Playboy pinball machine are the pulls here, but what really distinguishes Wreck Room is the décor: tail lights from four or five cars hang from the wall as decoration, and the "booths" are actually four car seats lined up around table, with Lincoln sar lettering mounted on the wall above.
PAPER MAG SAYS
If Bushwick were a youngster and its mom were buying him bars at SEARS, its mom would've bought the Wreck Room with a pacifying, "You'll grow into it." Wee little Bushwick might've protested. The space is in mimic of a large basement revamped for entertaining, with dark wood paneling and shimmery Art Deco wallpaper. There's a big amp-on-a-stick through which someone's favorite music blares, two pool tables and a Playboy pinball machine. The pun is completed with a wrecked car theme that starts with slouchy-comfy car seat benches (I'm not going back without an underage date) and ends with random Cadillac grills adorning the walls. All in all, it's boxy and a little ungainly.
CITY SEARCH SAYS
A beacon on a bleak stretch in Bushwick, this bar's been decorated with pieces of old junkyard cars. Bumpers with broken tail-lights dangle from the exposed brick walls and worn seats plucked from abandoned cars surround the tables where the neighborhood's latest residents coast into third gear. A rockabilly rec-room vibe plays in with two centerpiece pool tables and a Playboy pinball machine.
NY MAG SAYS
Outside, the streets bump and buckle like 1980s Beirut but inside, thanks to faux antique light fixtures, a pressed-tin ceiling and the rose brocade wallpaper, this cavernous, bare-brick space conjures up an atmosphere of languid libertinism that’s more like 1890s New Orleans. As the name suggests, Wreck Room is something akin to a punk-rock community center: Pool tables, vintage video games and rotating exhibits of local pop art offer stimulation on those rare nights when DJs aren't spinning slinky industrial jams or when bands aren't playing gritty trash rock. During the latter nights (mostly weekends), a double-doored buffer confines the din to the back room with its delightfully over-the-top tropical mural and thereby leaves the eerily indistinguishable boys and girls in black T-shirts to their earnest, tallboy-fueled conversations about the art of making 'zines.
Comments
The Wreck now serves food from 6pm to 12am. There is free delivery from 6pm to 10pm. And, they now accept credit cards.
Posted by: kerri sohn | July 12, 2008 11:49 PM