DISPATCH № 06
A photo diary · New York City · three bars

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Apothèke. Verlaine. Mister Purple. $22 a round and my cousin got a mocktail.

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Issue 06 — three bars · one night · South Carolina

My cousins came to NYC looking for brown girls. We went to three bars. We found people from South Carolina.

Apothèke

pharmacy themed · Chinatown · $22 a cocktail · $11 a mocktail
Fig.01Apothèke, Chinatown. A pharmacy-themed cocktail bar: apothecary jars, arched shelves, candlelight, $22 for a drink. Worth it, mostly for the ambiance.
Fig.02The whole length of the bar. The bartender, the bottles, the marble, the dark. Rahul got a mocktail. $11. He seemed fine with it.
Fig.03Last round at Apothèke. The bar surface in amber. Two empty glasses. Time to move.

Neel is a pharmacist

He reinvented himself this weekend. Three bars in, somewhere after Mister Purple, he met a girl. He also decided he wants to learn the subway. Maps. The whole system. Something clicked. Sometimes it just takes one weekend out with your cousins.

Verlaine

LES · fairy lights · the garden
Fig.04Verlaine. The name spelled out in fairy lights above the garden. The kind of bar that knows exactly what it is.

"This used to be a place to get a quick fucking martini."

That's what offering $8 lychee martinis in NYC gets you. A packed bar with nowhere to sit and a guy in the corner mourning what it used to be. I would say that it was pretty quick anyway, especially for those who choose to chug. 

III — Mister
Purple

Hotel Indigo rooftop · LES · a mission, sort of
Fig.05Mister Purple. My cousins came to NYC with a specific goal. We ended up talking to people from South Carolina instead. A good night regardless.

Three bars. One good story from South Carolina.

Dispatch № 06 — New York City
3 bars · 1 mocktail · $22 a round · 0 brown girls found
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