There’s a disco ball in the corner and the bathroom is covered in glitter wallpaper. Inside, the long oak bar is backed by rows of bottles lit from below, illuminated like a boozy skyline snapshot. “But to me, it's more of a cool cocktail bar that happens to be in the subway station.” “Yes, we do have a speakeasy vibe,” Hicks says. It approaches notions of that often theme-y S-word. Nothing Really Matters is down the stairs and to the right, its large windows obscured by blinds Gallo designed and had custom made. But then, when they open the door, they’re like, wow.” “I’m overhearing the guy saying, this is really sketchy. “The other day I saw a couple walking down,” Hicks says. It looks like a subway station from 1984’s Ghostbusters. An illustrated haircut legend is still on display. The facade is adorned in signs for the newsstand and barber shop that previously operated in the station’s small retail areas. The cinematic subway entrance that leads to Nothing Really Matters is next to the Duane Reade on 50th Street near Broadway. It’s kind of like a mystery for people when they come down here. “It’s kind of like an old-school New York idea, where you walk down to a hidden cocktail bar. “Expect the unexpected, right?” says head mixologist Cyllan Hicks. It’s located between the entrance and the turnstile in the downtown-bound 1 train station at 50th Street and Broadway. Nothing Really Matters is the latest from Adrien Gallo, whose previous endeavors included Double Happiness and Grand Banks. NYC’s newest entry to the micro category of subway bars –pour houses adjacent to the otherwise dry MTA–opened on New Year’s Eve, we first spied in the New York Post.
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