This place was ground zero for the blogger/Gawker scene in 2003-2004 and has always been a big hangout for the early dodgeball.com crowd. My brain is hardwired to use "The Magician" as a test search.
Bleecker Bar may be the home to the very first checkin ever (2001?) One of the orignal use cases from the dodgeball.com days: "I want to know when my friends are at the bar watching a baseball game."
This was a go-to during my grad school days at NYU, Ace Bar was always used as the "example" for dodgeball.com & foursquare use cases. It's still the first place I think of when testing new features.
Naveen & I built 1/2 of the foursquare prototype here (mostly at the back table near the bathroom). The "mayor" feature in 4SQ came from our buddy Chad making fun of us for camping at that table :)
The building was home to Foursquare's very first offices (2009-2012). We grew from 2 to 100+ people in this space. No trip down memory lane is complete w/out a pint at The Scratcher across the street.
Official after-work bar of team foursquare. If both bathrooms do not have foursquare stickers on the doors/mirrors/toilets, someone's getting fired... #justsaying
When we were still working on foursquare out of my apt, this place was where the very first "pop-up tip" actually worked ("At EV Tavern? Try the fries!") That's when I knew we were onto something good
This spot was 4SQ's home for 6 yrs (2012-2018). A lot of great products & technology were built here. To whomever occupies this space in the future, enjoy the great energy Team 4SQ has left behind.
After years of R&D, it was here where 4SQ's "Pilgrim" technology *actually worked* for the very first time (Aug 16, 2013). This was Foursquare's "invented the Flux Capacitor" moment. :)
First! :) Behold our new Corporate HQ... the "appropriate amount of fancy" for a biz 9 yrs in the marking that's been inventing the future of location tech every step of the way! Welcome everyone!
