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One or two is normal. Three or four is something to notice. Double digits is a mofo trend. Over the past 12 months, Manhattan has been inundated with basement lounges. And while the Beatrice has been around for more than a year, and Ella and Macao are also above ground, they contribute to the new below ground movement that makes drinking at street level positively passe. As for roof bars, well, you can just forget about those. Back in the high flying days of Dow 14,000, the roof was the only place for fashionable scenesters and ballin' bankers to strut their stuff. Now, in this our winter of despair, the in-crowd has found it fashionable to crowd into these bunker like spaces, hiding from the destruction that lurks above and hoping that when they emerge, they will find better days. Fat chance.