E Village Bartender Groped While Working At Bar None: Report

EAST VILLAGE, NY — The bar owner at the East Village's Bar None is under fire for creating a culture of sexual harassment and drug use at the watering hole, the New York Daily News reported.

Kaitlin Day, a 28-year-old artist working as a bartender at the bar, says she was sexually harassed and assaulted by the bar owner Frank Steo's friends and had to put up with them using crack in the basement, Day alleged in a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the News reported.

Steo's friend told Day she looked "very sexy" in a dress, according to the Daily News. Day also alleged Steo did nothing to remove a tip jar labeled "Tips 4" and a pair of breasts, implying she would have to show her breasts for cash, the News reported.

The harassment escalated last month, when a man that Day believed to be Steo's cousin groped her butt and vagina, the News reported.

Day, who also performs on stage in a bra and underwear under the name Kay Day, told the News: "I'm a very free person and I'm very funny on stage. ... Never on tour, never in my life has someone touched me like that. I don't care if I'm wearing a dress or a turtle neck it's my body, it's my choice."

Patch has reached out to Bar None for comment.

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