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Arcade Games Repossessed, Tourist Trap Turned Nightclub Mars 2112 Shutters (thepoliticker.observer)
The view from Mars 2112.
Here’s a rare morsel of good news for the sniveling “old New York” die-hards
who still bemoan McHale’s closing and curse Rudy Guiliani’s name: it appears
Times Square has lost one of its more Disneyland-ish elements.
“Mars 2112 is going out of business as far as I know,” an auctioneer for
Michael Amodeo & Co. told the Transom recently. On January 4, the liquidation
specialists auctioned off the science fiction themed restaurant's space-kitsch
memorabilia, including it's signature attraction, two 30-seat space flight
simulators originally worth $1.5 million together.
The 33,000-square-foot tourist trap restaurant was built in 1999, with the
vision of Paschal Phelan (an Irish business man chased by fraud allegations)
and $15 M. in dot-com boom era money. The restaurant's flyer guys, dressed as
aliens, humiliated the Hachette employees who worked upstairs, but its
subterranean simulacrum drew a thrum of tourists to 1633 Broadway.
Despite its pricy menu, financial troubles quickly fell upon the restaurant,
once favored by Brad Pitt and son Maddox Jolie-Pitt. Mars 2112 first filed for
bankruptcy in 2002, citing diminished sales “in light in of the tragic events
of September 11, 2001,” and again in late 2007. ...
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