Dead Letter No. 9

63 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Open Thursday-Sunday

As a part of Mobile Output, I have helped our team track down most of the bars and venues with sound systems in BK. After hosting three of our most successful events at Dead Letter No. 9 (including a banger of a Halloween party last year that we co-produced with the venue), it has cemented its place as one of my favorite nightlife locales in Brooklyn.

Dead Letter No. 9 is a conversation parlor, bar, and event space created within an old U.S. Postal Service warehouse for undeliverable mail and packages, with a decor and theme to match its roots. Its full bar features inventive and popular cocktails and non-alcoholic options for those who prefer an edible or microdose for their forays into this freaky space.

Dead Letter No. 9 is a concept developed by a team of Brooklyn restauranteurs in collaboration with the immersive theater company Roll the Bones. It is designed to be a highly interactive, immersive experience, where patrons and partygoers move between themed spaces including a screened porch in the mountains, a retro treehouse, a camper trailer in the desert under the stars, and a hella sexy nightclub in the back called Cargo. The result is old friends, first dates, or strangers gathering in rooms purposely built to encourage rich conversation. Whether I spend the bulk of my time at an event here dancing in Cargo, DJing near the front bar, or tossing CDs into the walkman in the treehouse,  I always wish the night wouldn’t end.