Bouncer Blues

MANHATTAN — A former bouncer at 151 claims in a federal complaint that the Lower East Side bar subjected him to conditions "so unbearable that no man in plaintiff's shoes should be expected to tolerate."

Unbearable heat gave the bouncer a groin abscess, and he went on antidepressants to "cope with the overwhelming hopelessness and sadness," the complaint says.

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