MilkBar
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MilkBar[edit]
MilkBar was opened on November 7, 1985, by ex-Studio 54 bartender Scott Taylor with partner real-estate developer Jack Lesko who owned the sharply triangular building at 22 7th Avenue south and Leroy Street. Lesko spent $80,000 to realize the designs of Colleen Weinstein, with lighting and naming done by her husband, nightclub impresario Arthur Weinstein who was inspired by the Korova Bar Milk Bar in Stanley Kubrick’s film A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. The plexiglass walls and bar glowed from backlighting, the plastic 60s furniture mirrored a mirage of modernity off the white floor, which the punk busboys painted every two days. Taylor who had been involved with Arthur Weinstein in two previous nightspots, the Jefferson and The Continental, which had stretched the limits of fun for those revelers not wanting to call it a night at the legal closing hour of 4 am. MilkBar replicated the atmosphere of an after-hours club without overstepping the laws of the NY State Liquor License. MilkBar established its ascendancy in the nightlife of Lower Manhattan as the primary destination for downtown artists, uptown celebrities, East Village bikers, models, athletes, and musicians. Famed nightclub reporter Steven Saban of Details Magazine said of MilkBar, “The MilkBar is a party. The right people at the right time. There’s a feeling of recklessness that exists nowhere else in town. It’s like a legal after-hours club.” The club never went out of its way for publicity and this blasé discretion appealed to a wide range of people interested in protecting their privacy. Cameras were forbidden, except to Patrick McMullen who was just breaking into the ranks of New York’s celebrity photographers.
The known were outnumbered by the unknown, but it wasn’t unusual to see stars within the club such as Boy George, Jack Nicholson, Lauren Hutton, Warren Beatty Rick James, Madonna and Sean Penn, David Bowie, Sade, Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, John Sally, Bill Murray, Elliot Easton, August (Kid Creole) Darnell, Lawrence Fishburne, Billy Idol, Nile Rodgers, Joe Strummer or Mick Jones Who wrote a song about MilkBar for Big Audio Dynamite called “Hollywood Boulevard” Taylor and Lesko parted ways in Jan 1987 over money, the two reached an out of court settlement in Aug 1988.
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