It’s legal to “smoke cigarettes” inside this “mellow” East Village “hookah joint” where flavored tobaccos and Marlboro Lights scent the air; the “dimly lit”, Moroccan-themed premises consist of a “low-key” bar and lounge on the main floor, plus a “decent party room” in the basement.
Billed as a smoking lounge and is in fact...a smoking lounge! Tell all your pre-cancer buddies. Turkish hookahs get sparked beneath red walls. State-of-the-art air purification system keeps the red out of your eyes. Indian fare on offer if you're still sporting tastebuds. Oh, did we mention smoking? That's right, you can smoke here. Yes, you really can smoke here. Must have karma to burn to so...
A crimson-tinged smoker's nirvana in the East Village:
""You can smoke here,"" proclaim signs all over this lounge, exempt from the city's ban on smoking in bars because its hookah pipes classify it as a tobacco bar. The child-sized chairs and red...