Fun article in Monday’s NY Times about redesigning the Campbell Apartment. If you’re not familiar with it, the Campbell Apartment is a lounge buried inside Grand Central Terminal where martinis cost like $18. The allure is the fact that it’s hidden, and bringing your friends there makes you look like a person in the know.
Here’s how New York City’s hidden bar progression goes. When you’ve been in the city a year or so, you take your friends to Chumley’s. When you’ve been here a few years, you take them to that La Esquina joint down in Tribeca. When you’ve been here a long time, you take them to…geez, I have no idea what’s cool anymore.
Anyway, what we learn from the Campbell Apartment article:
1. Campbell had a piano and a pipe organ in his place.
2. Campbell kept his pants in a humidor because he hated wrinkles.
3. The place was not, in fact, Campbell’s apartment. It was his office.
