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As a New Yorker, you learn to cope with certain things that are “only in New York”. People drinking in a supply closet can now be added to that list.

Threesome Tollbooth is the city’s tiniest speakeasy, tucked inside of a closet in a closed (but not defunct) Italian restaurant in Bushwick. It can fit exactly three people and one of them is the bartender. The shtick is an hour “cocktail tasting experience” inside of the wood-paneled space which is now filled with fancy barware and antique glasses. The prepaid reservations start at $100 per person. During the hour you’ll get five to 12 small-volume cocktails but no food and you can only make reservations Thursday through Saturday. Of course, they’re also sold out until July.

“I think of it in terms of courses, and I want you to just have this whole cocktail journey,” owner and bartender N.D. Austin told Moneyish.

With no set menu, and strict no cellphones or photographs allowed rules, Threesome Tollbooth is definitely a journey, and a very exclusive on at that. It’s a matter of whether or not it’s a worthwhile journey.

Apparently, the experimental spot draws in 120 guests per month, and they’re only open three days a week. Reservations are usually filled just 15 minutes after they’re opened. “If you’re making a memory, it’s a memory you’re inscribing on your heart, and in your mind,” Austin said.

On one hand, it makes a lot of sense — rent in NY is high enough so why not work out of a closet if you can? On the other, you’re paying $100 a head to drink in a closet.