It’s at best unwise to go out for drinks without a nasal swab and a clear test result these days. So Henrietta Hudson has made it part of the nightlife experience. CarolineSpivack reports
Photo: John Nacion/NurPhoto/Shutterstock It’s at best unwise to go out for drinks without a nasal swab and a clear test result these days. So Henrietta Hudson, New York’s longest-running lesbian bar, has made it part of the nightlife experience, offering patrons free COVID-19 PCR and rapid tests. “With Omicron, I knew I had to do something more,” said Henrietta’s owner, Lisa Cannistraci. “This was a good way to stay open safely.
Photo: Alena Adler This unusual bar freebie — more useful if perhaps less delicious than a bowl of salted nuts — started on December 30. A large provider, Community Testing Services, which runs on-site testing for schools, conferences, and sporting events, trained staff at the bar and is doing the lab work. Seven employees have learned how to swab noses, and they do so from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 6 to midnight on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays.
It’s fitting, Cannistraci says, that the queer space is stepping up. “We’ve experienced what it’s like to have something that we didn’t understand destroy our community,” she said, referring to the AIDS epidemic. “Because I lived through that, now here I am with this. For this particular space, I wanted to add that extra layer of, you know, people feeling better.”
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