He’s asking for his or her IDs — and so they’re asking for his quantity.
Luke Timm, 26, manages the door outdoors Decrease East Facet bar 82 Stanton, however the 6-foot-5 bouncer with electrical hazel eyes has additionally turn into the explanation for the gang.
“I don’t wanna sound like an smug a – – gap,” Timm, who lives in East Village, informed The Publish. “I at all times knew I used to be, like, a handsome man.”
The bar, previously Epstein’s on the nook of Stanton and Allen, has usually welcomed an informal crowd of 20-somethings consuming beer on their out of doors patio since opening in 2018.
Nonetheless, since Poughkeepsie, New York, native Timm started posting TikToks as @security_nyc, flashing his six-pack abs on the bar and flirting with regulars, single females have rushed to the sidewalk the place Timm is perched from completely happy hour till shut most nights.
“Actually gonna come to this bar solely for u I’m obsessed,” one excited girl commented.
“I’d die for you,” added one other.
However ladies are far more reserved when assembly Timm in particular person — they don’t need to scare him off.
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“He undoubtedly lived as much as the hype,” Victoria Emerson, 26, informed The Publish, guffawing. “He’s a really handsome particular person.”
Emerson and two girlfriends joined the gaggle of gals on the bar just lately after seeing his movies. Now, they often cease by 82 Stanton for the attention sweet.
On their first go to, Emerson and her crew left with three numbers — together with Timm’s.
“Actually, I really feel like he simply units the tone. The mixture of him being tremendous enticing and tremendous pleasant form of makes you’re feeling within the temper to mingle,” she mentioned.
Timm went from unknown to hunk in a single day when he was talked about on the favored “Match Made in Manhattan” podcast. “82 Stanton. Oh, my God, the bouncer was so sizzling,” one of many hosts mentioned. “Individuals had been overflowing.”
And based on Timm, after he got here ahead because the “sizzling bouncer,” 82 Stanton had its “greatest week of the summer time.”
“It’s given me slightly LES fame,” he admitted.
Now, the gang has gone from beer-chugging finance bros and the ladies who adore them to a barely youthful, largely feminine crowd laughing a bit too loudly as they attempt to seize Timm’s consideration.
On a current evening, ladies of their early- to mid-20s batted their enhanced eyelashes as they gathered across the tables by the door, hoping to go dwelling with him, get his quantity or at the least be requested to star in his subsequent viral video.
“I’m not actively trying to find a associate however, after all, I’m having enjoyable and doing my factor,” Timm, who confirmed he’s single, mentioned.
Nonetheless, Timm insisted that the folks behind 82 Stanton don’t need it to be “a TikTok bar” — so he needs to “ensure its common base is down-to-earth folks.”
One other seemingly contradictory stance: Timm is six years sober and on a mission to assist others who battle with dependancy and psychological well being.
The previous highschool soccer and basketball star watched his desires slip away after he was kicked off the Princeton soccer workforce following his second drug and alcohol-related arrest when he was simply 19.
Timm mentioned his struggles started a lot earlier when he began consuming at 12 years previous and smoking marijuana as a sophomore. He mentioned he was excessive so typically, it grew to become his new regular, regardless of being a profitable highschool athlete.
However when his dependancy received him kicked off the soccer workforce and out of the Ivy League college, it lastly clicked. It wasn’t straightforward, however Timm has been sober since April 21, 2018, which allowed him to return to Princeton to complete his diploma.
“I’ve by no means had a need to [drink or do drugs again],” Timm insisted. “It’s the craziest factor. I feel I simply completely rewired my mind.”
Now, he and his cousin John Timm, who manages 82 Stanton, have co-founded Contact Streets, a company to assist recovering addicts “map out their objectives” to make constructive modifications of their lives.
And regardless of his previous, Timm isn’t on a mission to sober everybody up.
“I’m nearly selling consuming,” he admitted. “There’s lots of people who can get pleasure from alcohol and whatnot and never have it’s an enormous problem of their lives.”
He’s simply not one in all them. So on the bar, he sips on water and makes positive everyone seems to be having a enjoyable, protected time.
And when his backstory comes up, it simply makes the ladies swoon much more.
“Individuals are form of simply fairly infatuated by comeback story,” he mentioned, though his story doesn’t appear to be the principle purpose for the gang.
“He’s cute,” Tali Atias, 24, informed The Publish whereas ready outdoors the bar. “I’ll undoubtedly be again.”
