Space Karaoke Bar and Lounge is on the eleventh floor of a building on West 32nd Street in Koreatown, which is already its own neighborhood within Midtown. Ten private soundproofed rooms, each with volume controls for the music, microphones, and reverb. You pick your songs off YouTube. The setup is straightforward and well-executed, and the rooms are legitimately private rather than the thinly partitioned variety.

Bottle service packages come with unlimited mixers. BYOB is also an option at a lower price point, which appeals to a range of people making it work for group celebrations on different budgets. Happy hour and daily specials run depending on the day, and the bar is open from the mid-afternoon on weekends, which extends the potential of a Koreatown night considerably.

Karaoke on this floor of this building in this neighborhood is a specific kind of New York experience. The elevator ride alone, twelve floors up in a corridor building off 32nd Street, puts you somewhere that doesn't quite feel like the city you took the subway to get to.