It’s always dicey to write about things where you have secondhand knowledge—and want to pass it along—but that you haven’t experienced yet. “Yet” is the key because I know I am going to the new bar/event space in the wonderful Woolworth building. I know the Wooly exists because my terminally cool daughter, who called herself Wooly when she was a toddler, and her beyond-the-cutting-edge friends went there last week to celebrate a few of them tripping off to grad school.

The Wooly's proprietor, Eric Adolfsen (by Nicole Wasilewicz, courtesy NiteTalk). Below: The Wooly.

The Wooly is the brainchild of Eric Adolfsen, who graduated from the MFA program at Yale about three years ago and designed every inch of the bar. In the words of a denizen with ears to the ground, “Eric has artworks hanging from his own apartment as well as pieces made by friends. It is a totally cozy, comfortable, cool bar living on the ground floor of a building with such a phenomenal history!” (There’s an enlightening interview about the Wooly, which is at 11 Barclay, at NBC New York’s NiteTalk blog, and Guest of a Guest has covered several events there, including the one in the photo at top.)

And, as a bit of gossip en plus, Eric’s girlfriend is Gossip Girl stylist Lisa Tobias. We raise a glass to them, wishing them luck on this great endeavor!

About the author: Wickham Boyle, known as Wicki, has written for The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications. She was a founder of CODE and ThriveNYC magazine, executive director of La MaMa theater, and author of A Mother’s Essays From Ground Zero (2001), which debuted as an opera in 2008. She has an MBA from Yale and worked as a Wall Street stockbroker. At Memory & Movement, she writes about memorizing poems while walking along the Hudson.

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