People’s Revives the Avant-Garde Gallery With an Alluring Cocktail Lounge in Greenwich Village

For New Yorkers, entering a dilapidated façade into a candlelit club is a right of passage. When it comes to cool factor, unmarked exteriors are superlative, coteries draped in banquets within the humming walls essential and outside crowds of clamoring bodies a necessary evil. People’s, the gallery and club that owners Margot Hauer-King and Emmet McDermott officially unveiled to the Greenwich Village social scene on Dec. 16, hits each mark with intention. 

The space, currently masked by...