What has happened since then is subject to debate. According to Westmoreland and his lawyer, David Kaminsky, the Rockefeller group informed them that the building was going to be knocked down and advised Westmoreland to accept a settlement that terminated his year lease six years early. He accepted, believing he had no choice in the matter.
Yet after some investigating, Westmoreland and Kaminsky discovered that the city was unaware of any such plan to demolish the building. Westmoreland filed in court in order to get an extension of his right to occupy the space, claiming he had been unfairly treated. When that extension expired, Siberia filed for bankruptcy.
Luckily for Westmoreland, the bar has been allowed to stay open during those proceedings. Westmoreland claims that the Rockefeller Group shut off his hot water; Rockefeller counters that the bar never had hot water in the first place. Recognizing his own dire straits, Westmoreland decided to take a drastic step in order to win a powerful ally. In March, Westmoreland attended a St. Westmoreland took the opportunity to physically corner the first lady, gently but forcibly, as she was making her way out.
After a short but animated chat, Westmoreland managed to get Clinton to promise that she would further investigate the situation, to see if she could in fact help him. In his version, the Rockefeller Group is a miserly, misguided micromanager. The reality of the situation, while possibly less dramatic, does present a loaded set of cultural and political tensions.
Siberia, they point out, is not a strip club or a sex shop. Westmoreland actually enforces strict rules to ensure that the bar never gets out of control. Westmoreland today. He also told us that he thinks the club will remain in the same dank, subterranean space on 40 th Street and Ninth Ave. Westmoreland has been keeping very busy. He said he now works as a bouncer at The Ritz, the well-known gay bar on 46 th Street. This gig is, of course, somewhat old-hat for Mr.
Westmoreland, who was once the director of security for Studio It was filmed a few months before his death last April. I'm complying, going around in circles like in a comedy I said, I'm not here to have a fight, I'm here to tell you the Rockefeller Group is doing bad things. Out to speak with Westmoreland came "an older guy, maybe 55, 60" years old, whom the barkeep identified only as "the number-two guy at Mitsubishi Estates, globally.
Westmoreland, we are very aware of you. Rockefeller Group spokesman Vince Silvestri confirmed that Westmoreland indeed journeyed to Mitsubishi headquarters, but could not identify "the number two guy at Mitsubishi Estates, globally. Asked if he would ever drop down to the new 40th St. Siberia for a drink, Silvestri diplomatically stated that "the matter is closed.
As for the new space: past the heavy, intimidating doors lies a whole new Siberia, with two floors, a huge, comfortable, full-nostril-breath space. On a recent Monday people drank up, chatted with polite vocabularies and didn't bother each other. Bartender Ungie parked his enviable white Vespa next to the bathroom and the photo booth, adjacent to the couches and touching against a crate with a cushion on top of it.
Downstairs is a space to summon the envy of every rock club ever to have existed, with a makeshift stage and bare, ancient red brick walls. Westmoreland says attendees can expect the occasional bout of "performance art" down here, a threadbare space his friend Bourdain perfectly christened "the Gulag. It's about the people, not the space.
When [the faithful] come to the new Siberia, they're home.
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