La Noxe is the cocktail lounge hidden inside the 28th Street subway station stairwell — there is genuinely no other NYC speakeasy with this entrance mechanic. Ring the buzzer at street level, the hostess escorts you down past the subway turnstiles into a snug red-velvet room serving Iberian-inspired tapas (Galician grilled octopus with paprika is the signature). Owner Jey Perie (ex-Kinfolk Williamsburg creative director) opened the original in 2020; a second location at 111 Broadway in the Financial District extends the format more conventionally. The cocktail program is crowd-pleasing rather than craft-credentialed (no 50 Best Bars, no Spirited Awards) — the entrance IS the editorial substance, the same way FREVO's gallery door is. For NYC's only literal-subway-station-stairwell speakeasy, where the entrance is the room's editorial.