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After Life: 983 Bushwick’s Living Room is Reborn

Cocktails and thin-cut fries are the move at the newly renovated Flushing Avenue spot.

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After Life: 983 Bushwick’s Living Room is Reborn

Cocktails and thin-cut fries are the move at the newly renovated Flushing Avenue spot.

After Life: 983 Bushwick’s Living Room is Reborn

After Life, a new cocktail bar in Bushwick, opened with very little fanfare in early April. By that point, Andrew Porteus hadn’t even set up an instagram account for his new bar –  but curious locals have been trickling nonetheless through the doors at 983 Flushing Avenue. Anyone who is serious about the Bushwick brunch scene will recognize the address as the former home of 983 Bushwick Living Room, noted home of good vibes and stellar huevos rancheros to soak up last night’s hangover. 

983 closed at the start of the pandemic and this was widely lamented. A rare breed of a neighborhood spot, you could always expect two things: the wait on weekends…

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