Union Pool Hook-Up Stories Take Over Twitter

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — Union Pool is trending on Twitter because so many people have hooked up there, users report.

The mass-confession of stories from Union Pool — an iconic Williamsburg bar and music venue that served as a predecessor to Tinder, apparently — was inspired by an indepth look at Brooklyn’s hook-up capital from New York Magazine.

The article, “How Union Pool Became the Horny Utopia of 2000s Williamsburg,” was released on The CutWednesday and has since inspired hundreds of Brooklynites to recount their days in the hipster’s Eden at 484 Union Ave.

New Yorkers recounted the crazy things that can only happen at a millennial hook-up bar, including photo booth blackmail opportunities, hot wax mishaps and what happens when you tell a girl you like her mustache.

These are just a few of the responses, which are best not read in the company of your boss, your children, your biology teacher or your mom.

#Fail:

All these Union Pool tweets remind me of my favorite F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: “A great social success is boning strangers you met at a hookup bar.”
— Harris Mayersohn (@harrismayer) February 1, 2018

One time at Union Pool a bartender knocked over one of those tall Catholic candles onto my wallet, spilling wax on it. At first i was mad but then I thought it was kind of cool.
— chris payne (@cpayneonaplane) January 31, 2018

juuuust popping in to say once i went on a first date at union pool when i was 24 where the guy started talking to another woman around the bonfire + within an hour they were making out in front of me; so i got drunk on pbr and cried in the bathroom in a strapless velvet dress
— rachel syme (@rachsyme) January 31, 2018

yeah you can get laid at union pool but the true New Yorker goes to union pool at 1pm to eat delicious tacos alone
— Drew Kaufman (@Diet_Hellboy) February 1, 2018

One time I went to Union pool and I had sex with every Single person there. One after the other. I’m still there
— Max Steele (@billycheer) January 31, 2018

I have never hooked up at Union Pool but I HAVE smoked an entire pack of cigarettes and then thrown up so I think that’s actually cooler
— Samantha Ruddy (@samlymatters) January 31, 2018

All of my Union Pool stories begin "I forgot which bar it was and then I got there and was like 'oh, this one again'" and end with "I felt too old and crowded and went home" https://t.co/vpA6ChKudG
— Alexandra Svokos (@asvokos) January 31, 2018

#Photobooth:

I met a professional Matt Damon look alike at Union Pool in 2011. We did not hook up, but we did take a photobooth pic together.
— Gina Pollack (@ginapollack) November 17, 2017

Still waiting to be blackmailed from pictures taken in the photobooth at Union Pool
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) January 31, 2018

I hooked up with the photo booth at Union Pool
— Joe Virgillito (@joevirgillito) February 1, 2018

#Question:

Header photo courtesy of GoogleMaps/Sept. 2017

This article was made possible by the reporting of Noah Manskar and the existence of Twitter.