The Palms

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  i wuz there
  
  dont really remember much
  
  but i wuz there

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  Posted on 09.15.11 Briana M.

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  The Palms is a great experiment. Swimming pools, dancing, booze, food trucks, and a low maintenance attitude is a guaranteed success.
  
  The indoor area is an old bank converted into a club. The bar itself is the old bank teller counter. The safe has been converted into a retail shop where they sell t-shirts, shades, old school Super Soakers, rubber duckies, and any other silly items that one may find handy for a pop-up pool party. There are two floors of music playing eclectic mixes of hip-hop and pop music.
  
  The basement floor reminded me of the 90's in places like the Tunnel (see how I just aged myself there?). The basement was mostly pitch black with only fun strobe lights to guide you while you dance up a sweat storm due to the lack of any air conditioning down there.
  
  As for the outdoor lot...
  
  The dumpster pools (yes dumpster pools) are great! Granted I haven't swam in them, but they're totally refurbished and look sanitary (that is till everyone's sweaty juices corrode them). There lot is adorned with beach chairs, ping pong tables, and even hammocks (that conveniently masked you from the crowd when closed up, perfect for hammocky debauchery). There's another bar out in the lot as well. The food trucks are also stationed here as well.
  
  The crowd is pretty varied, but a bit more "hipster". Like a mish mosh of the young residents that adorn the east rive outer borough neighborhoods. Everyone is here to have a good time, and that is all. Pretension is out the door.
  
  A BIG 1 star minus because of the restrooms/porto-potties/Chernobyl are beyond anything I have ever experience in my lifetime of toilet experience. Step anywhere near the area and the rancid smell will have you hurling. Opt for the deli across the street next to Dominos.
  
  The Palms is a party, and nothing more. It's a party that allows me to remember a time when clubbing in NY was all about dancing and the unpredictable. It's loud, raunchy, and a little bit nuts.

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  Posted on 09.04.11 Donald K.

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  One star is deducted for the stiff cover.
  
  We arrived around 7pm on Saturday night and ready to go for a swim in the dumpster pools. Yep, that's right. Dumpster pools in a parking lot in LIC. You gotta love NYC.
  
  There are three pools and they were all very clean. They also had a few pool toys to play with and played we did! There was a two-headed snake and also an alligator. It was very hard to mount the alligator in the water. I was quite sore the next day. I laughed a whole lot.
  
  The drinks were pretty lame. $7 for water-down sangria and $7 glasses of wine. Yucko.
  
  The port-a-pottys were pretty scary and one guy was freaking out about the toilets, he kept asking people to squirt his hands with Ed Hardy sanitizer. You have got to love OCD hipsters.
  
  The music was actually very good. I was definitely catching the dancing bug.
  
  I'll be back before the season ends to dive into the dumpster pools again! Come join me and let's try to tame the Loch Ness monster!

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  Posted on 08.23.11 Vivian H.

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  This place is...awesome...in a very strange way. It's in Queens, which isn't tooo weird but the crowd that goes here, or atleast came by when I was here, was a bit all over the place.
  
  I was here for their soft opening this past Friday evening, and it was a lot of fun. They sell buckets of coronas and even a bottle of Vueve Cliquot, which will sent you back $70; that's like 1/8th the price it would cost for this stuff in Manhattan. You walk through the doors into this big hall, which I think doubles as their indoor party place for when it rains. This is where you'll find the bar and pool stuff to rent (like towels and even rubber duckees!), and you can buy old school Super Soakers!
  
  The outside is where the fun is. It's really a parking lot, but they have a DJ set up and the port-o-pottys are out there as well (sorry, no bathrooms). There are lounge chairs all over and of course, the now famous dumpster pools are there. This is an awesome place to go on a Saturday afternoon and party and have some drinks or eat some Red Hook Lobster truck, which was in effect this past weekend. Apparently I was told at their grand opening on Saturday that they had the bar set up outside. I guess they will put it wherever it needs to be. I'm definitely going to attempt to go back here before the summer is officially over. Their may be a cover charge (it was $10 Sunday and Saturday) but it was free on Friday, but again it was their soft open so it was technically invite only. Eitherway it's a great plan in the area and of course it's one stop into Queens from Midtown. Pool partay!!!

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  Posted on 08.14.11 Clint H.

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