Siberian Exile

After working security at the exclusive Studio 54 and later reigning over his own unruly crowd at the legendarily lawless dive bar Siberia, Tracy Westmoreland isn’t the kind of guy to be intimidated by a few little raindrops.

And he expects the same waterproof attitude from his real estate partners.

“Right now, I’m Read More

Siberia, Famous Watering Hole of Manhattan Media, to Reopen

Tracy Westmoreland, the boisterous actor and owner of recently-shuttered New York dive bar Siberia, just told us, exclusively, that he is going to reopen the beloved watering hole.

“Siberia has been the engine of all my good luck, so we’re going to restart the engine,” said Mr. Westmoreland today. He also told us that Read More

Siberia: Is the End Near? Not on the Net!

Tonight might be Siberia’s last night on 40th Street–it’s still open, people!–but the reporters’ no-man’s-land has already found a new home on the World Wide Web.

Last night The Transom stopped by to raise a glass and give a bear hug to Tracy Westmoreland, the grizzly barman with a big heart, only find him huddling Read More

Siberia: Still Open (Today! And Tomorrow!)

Around noon, the Transom received word from an unusually lucid–that is to say, awake!–Tracy Westmoreland. His beloved bar Siberia is not yet dead.

“My demise has been greatly exaggerated,” quoted the barman. “We are still open. We will be open tomorrow.”

Tomorrow, yes. But. Mr. Westmoreland confirmed that the situation between tenant and landlord–blogged yesterday Read More

Tony Soprano & Me

On Oscar night, Cynthia DeMoss was eating pizza and drinking vodka cranberries at Lot 61 on West 21st Street. She was wearing a red scarf, a red shirt that exposed her belly, a long flowing skirt, an Indian necklace, black knee socks and sandals.

“I look like a hippie chick,” she said. “Fuck fashion!”

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