The Wreck Room

c/o NY Mag

940 Flushing Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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718.418.6347

Cuisine: Bar Snacks/Vegetarian-friendly
Our Rating: ★ ★ ★
Cards: All Major
Price: $
Hours: 12pm-2am Daily
Booze: Full Bar
Subway: L to Morgan Ave.
Menu: Click Here
Delivery: No
NY Mag says:

Outside, the streets bump and buckle like 1980s Beirut but inside, thanks to car part 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 and video games 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.

Shecky’s says:

On a dark, deserted street, in a section that looks post-apocalyptic even by Bushwick’s low standards, un-imposingly sits the Wreck Room. Essentially a well-lit version of the LES’s Motor City bar, nearby art students and those with similarly dire finances nurse economical selections, such as $2 Rolling Rocks, in the view of an impressive hanging gallery of classic car bumpers, complete with working head- and tail-lights. If it’s diversion you need, two pool tables and the occasional video game help to fill the big space. Or you can just grab a seat in a leather bucket-seat booth, and hope your skin doesn’t stick like those times you drive to the beach. On weekends, there’s an assortment of local punk rock bands performing at ear-torturing decibel levels amidst a hilariously out-of-place painted tropical backdrop, giving the room the effect of a giant bodega sign. A little too new and semi-stylish to really be considered a dive, but a good cheap time, nonetheless.

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