Gothamist: Production Lounge Brings Taste of Planet Hollywood to Greenpoint

Bobby718Johnson

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:55:14 -0500

I live in the area and was born and raised in Brooklyn! I visited the establishment on Saturday and had a great time! I must say there is a lot of style and class there as well as some very nice people! Diversity shouldn't scare anyone! This is Brooklyn people! Style shouldn't be just plaid shirts tight vintage jeans and boots! I must say there are some young very wealthy music ceo's that vist this lounge and they are not afraid to show it! So could we all get along!

Scott Roc

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:33:22 -0500

As someone who works in the film business, and in Greenpoint no less, blowing off steam after a 14 hour day at a place styled around the film industry sounds horrible. Give me Lost and Found any day.

w0wzers

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:57:30 -0500

UPDATE: I don't care what Ms. Heather thinks. Because she is greenpoint or something.

w0wzers

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:50:43 -0500

bagelman

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:47:34 -0500

this is a totally perfect place to be ironic in.

NannyState

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:46:04 -0500

No style, no class, no customers. Pathetic.

weatherman2012

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:46:48 -0500

I don't believe that the local blue collar crowd shouldn't have a place to go, but the production lounge just looks like a douchebag palace. Even the sports bar Red Star, which attracts a similiar crowd, fits into it's surroundings without looking like a giant flat panel tv ass pimple! Honestly, The Production Lounge looks like it belongs in Grand Theft Auto, not Greenpoint.

pontiac

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:44:37 -0500

hey matukonyc -- are you referring to post #1? if so, i think you got his description wrong. my guess is that he's actually a guy who's lived in greenpoint since well before it was hip to do so, who's has never stood in line at enids for brunch, never been thrown out of a bar in the neighborhood, and does not own one single ironic tshirt. my guess is that he's just your average guy who knows TACKY when he sees it. i live around the corner (and i also do not adhere to your description of elitism and snobbery) and when i walked by the other night, TPL reeked of obnoxiousness. it's flashing animated sign and marquee are visual pollution in my neighborhood. it's not snobbery, it's taste. (I have nothing against talent shows -- but this bar is a downright ugly addition to the street).

virgil

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:34:51 -0500

Don't think that the influx of hipsters in GP means that the blue collar club-going Irish/Polish population has suddenly disappeared. There are plenty of folks in the neighborhood that would patronize this kind of place. It's not for me, but it's got just as much right to be there as any of my favorite places.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:23:05 -0500

are those the bouncers or are they customers? either way, no thank you. but I can see it getting rented out for private corp parties.

Dirk

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:14:12 -0500

That is one shitty website they have. It's bordering on spoof territory.

matukonyc

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:09:51 -0500

The same idiots who gladly stand on line for brunch at Enid's wearing fake-old band t-shirts and flip-flops and are outraged when they get drunk and kicked out of a bar prove their true elitism and snobbery here. Some people like talent shows, you know.

Papercutninja

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:07:32 -0500

is it wrong that as a full grown adult, i'm giggling at the fact that his name is Ariola(sp)?

smitty

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:05:54 -0500

yeah, boo to independent business owners! sheesh.

spnder

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:21:00 -0500

Ugh. If Miss Heather brought the hammer down on this place I'd agree with her for once.

rbeshenk

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:19:16 -0500

Studio B was reopened. It is not on its knees. There's a CMJ party there Saturday, and another party Friday night. Did she cause a well-meaning bar owner a lot of grief, time and money? Yes. Did she bring them to their knees? Not quite.

weatherman2012

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:16:59 -0500

That place is represents all that is wrong...with everything! If someone tried to devise the worst possible bar to add to a neighborhood with a growing night life, I don't think they could have done better than this place. Have you seen the website? Fashion model shoots? The casting couch? The site looks like it's spoofing something! There is a blog entry that says "Where are the true Artist?". Obviously not the web designers who built the site. It's as though someone came up with the idea for a reality show where young starlets from NJ have to compete to show who's the sluttiest...and then they made it into a bar. I think the place might have materialized out of a dimensional wormhole from a place where the Sopranos was real.