New York Times review of Jia
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The night-life slum known as Hell Square, a three-by-three grid of Lower East Side blocks below East Houston Street, has teemed with mobbed bars and hooting drunks for over a decade. But on a recent Saturday night, the scene was less frenzied at Jia, a lounge on Rivington Street that opened in May.