Nick Bodor, founder of Library Bar and Cake Shop, wants to turn the old Pyramid Bar space into the next legendary Manhattan rock club. LaurieStories reports
Nick Bodor took a surreptitious look both ways as he rolled up the padlocked gate to the Pyramid Club at 6th Street and Avenue A. “The East Village is a small town,” he said, as I held his coffee.
Nick — whom I’ve known for nearly 30 years since he ran an early cybercafé called alt.coffee — laid his coat on the 30-foot bar. He wore skinny jeans, a black T-shirt, and a beat-up hoodie: the old East Village uniform. Only the faded rocketry tattoos on his arms and flecks of gray in his buzz cut provided color. I told him I’d gotten a few “RIP Pyramid” texts from Gen X friends after the club shut down, but if we’re being honest, Pyramid had become a relic.
The emptied-out room allowed me to grasp just how old the building is. “From 1876,” Bodor says. The ground floor was a big room called Kern’s Hall, “purpose-built to be a gathering spot from the get-go. People came here after thesteamship burned on the East River in 1904; so many locals were lost. Even earlier, there was a one-story building here, a brewery owned by a German immigrant, Peter Doelger, who brought pilsner-style beer to America.
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