Chaos - Is the corner of East Houston and First Avenue cursed? One might think so from the multitude of bars and clubs that have opened (and closed) n this former bank.

It’s been a goth club called The Bank, as well as Mint and Chaos (this is at least the second time the venue has been called that. And it’s housed everything from rock to dance crowds to strippers.

The current incarnation is going for an upscale vibe, with cool colors and polished wood amid a luxoriously high ceiling. The basement vault, where they used to keep the money back when this was a real-life bank is now an intimate lounge, and regularly packed with people-watchers.