Booze + babes + bars

At the Tainted Lady Lounge on Grand Avenue in Williamsburg, there are wall-to-wall paintings of bare-breasted pinup girls, a pink tequila drink called “Hedy Lamarr's Silk Stockings,” and plenty of underage patrons – most drinking milk.

Deb Parker, the bar owner and mother of an 18-month-old named Earl, started a “mommy and me” happy hour there soon after she opened the bar, so that new mothers would have a place to nurse their newborns and nurse a beer.

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So far Williamsburg hasn’t had a high profile backlash like one that occurred in Park Slope this year when a bartender at the Patio Lounge posted “A Stroller Manifesto” calling for an end to mixing of babies and booze.

The manifesto stated: “A bar is a place for adults to kick back and relax. How can you do that with a toddler running around or crying, getting changed on the table next to you or being breast-fed? And is a bar really the kind of environment a child should be exposed to? I know in Europe it is commonplace, but hey - this is America, baby.”
http://www.gothamgazette.com/community/33/majorissues/211