Planet X is a planet out of this world, hanging beyond Neptune and will bring about the end of our world. Its sudden appearance will flip the magnetic pole of the earth, unleash many tsunamis. “Planet X is going to grab the Earth’s crust and slide it over the North Pole,” obscure doomsayer Gordon James Gianninoto could be heard saying on Coast to Coast AM earlier this year.

But if Planet X doesn’t kill us all, it will be nonetheless arriving on Earth, in the form of the latest bar huddled around Ridgewood’s quietly gentrifying Seneca M Station. It will join such supple recent additions as The Seneca, Milo’s Yard and, just down the road, Bad Old Days. Taking the place of one of the shuttered pork shops of yesterday’s Ridgewood, it is the latest project of Andy Simmons and Holly MacGibbon, a couple who form local  “dark pop group” Weeknight and who have been, since 2015, running the Myrtle Avenue punk spot Birdy’s, where Bedford + Bowery’s Nicole Disser claims it “is not hard to imagine the ghost of Lou Reed slumping over the bar.”