New Bar on Washington: Way Station

Nice! More bars in more places!

Is this the one that was supposed to be called the Flying Monkey?

this is awesome news!

i have also heard that this bar is unofficially supposed to be the "new barrette".....

The slu... girls at least brought the steampunk to the steampunk bar. Apparently there are plans to really push the theme. The owner says they're working with a puppet artist to put in some moving installations and that they'll have a day photographing patrons in costumes to decorate the walls with daguerreotype portraits. Bring on the monocles!

Hey, I was there last night dressed in steampunk gear with a big group of friends and we had a great time. I hope dressing steampunk-y becomes part of the bar's aesthetic. I agree w/ jcq that we really brought the party.

Miss Coney Island, Gigi La Femme, is involved in creating the new bar, along with her boyfriend, Doc Wasabasco, and they invited the New York burlesque community out to the party. And the stage in the bar will be used for burlesque performances, as well as other arts; last night there were some fabulous gogo dancers entertaining everyone. So the "slu...I mean, girls dressed up in burlesque gear" will be a regular feature at the bar. The only burlesque in that area of Brooklyn was gogo dancing at Barette, so in that way Way Station will be the new Barette, but better, I think, because of the steampunk element and the burlesque power couple involved in the bar's creation.

There were only 3 or 4 gogo dancers last night and they were hired to perform. Everyone else came in costume or regular street clothes and was dressed pretty conservatively so... not sure where the "slu" idea came from.

I am very excited for this!! I am a fan of Wasabasco - I am quite pumped for this.

Any chance they'll have absinthe?

wrote about this awhile ago: blues, jazz, singer-songwriter.

another washington ave spot, flying monkey, is also expected to open in a month or so with limited one-off openings such as with Way Station, confirmed by owner.

unfortunately my piece posts the openings earlier; it was written back in april, but that's when the old "expected" and "set to open" comes in handy and those were the original launch dates; delays courtesy of ny liquor bureaucracy. great for the ave but still seems sad now that Tracy's gone from the lane. but alas, go-go to the go-gos.

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/16/32_16_sk_washington.html

maybe "steampunk," refers to a visual aesthetic, versus a sonic one? term references fashion mostly but perhaps not.

anyway, glad to have the new spots. cheers all,

Whatchuwant wrote: Just wanted to let you know that they're having an Octoberfest this Saturday evening. My friend will be bartending in an awesome German beer wench outfit- she is divine!

Will you be there Sat?

so I gather from this and from this: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150382788265 that they are still only open for events and not on a daily basis? any idea when the latter will happen?

Is this bar going to have people in skinny jeans and black tshirts with evil prints from bands that spit into the mic, or are they going to have people in white makeup smoking cloves and riding their Vespa clad in a trench coat, I so need to get my Joy Division shirt out of the dirty clothes or maybe still people dressed in Indiana Jones garb with welders goggles? I hope all of it I just love costumes and steam! Warehouse 13 is fantastic. I thought D&D had died but who knew.

We went last night - I really enjoyed the band a lot and the vibe was really nice. You can tell it's not "done" but it will look amazing (I think) once the walls are papered and everything is put together.

$4 bottles of beer was my only real downside - it's cheaper than the insane price of a bottle of beer at Prospect Pond (great mixed drink prices, but $6 bottles??) but I wish they had taps - I certainly hope this is in the works.

My husband and I like how different each bar on Washington is -
.Prospect Pond seems very "neighborhood" - a nice place for people nearby to go, but not really a destination people will travel to from outside of the area.
.Washington Commons is a good beer bar, and is the only one that seems serious about beers outside of the city, Park Slope, or Williamsburg. People will come out for it from other areas to check it out - their tap prices are very good. They also have a huge outdoor space.
.Half Court is a nice sports bar, and offers that for customers who want sports.
.Way Station seems like a decent bar but with a great performance space and a nice vibe. If they have lots of bands and burlesque I think they may get people to travel to it, not just local people.

That said, I think that all bars will have an increase in customers the more bars there are. I am much more likely to go out to an avenue/street ("hey, let's go to Bleeker, 5th Ave, Smith Street, Vanderbilt, etc..") and now that there are so many options on Washington, I think they will all do even better.

To sum up my much-too-long post... Great space, excited to see it all "done", great addition to the neighborhood!

<---- was there again ...

saw NOT 1 human i knew