The sleazy bar is back — are you naughty enough to go there?

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Take that Oura ring off, put your step counter on pause — the new mood is decadent. “There’s an escapist thing happening, a resurgence of opulence,” says William Elliott, executive bar director of Tigre, the new East Village cocktail lounge from Brooklyn’s beloved Maison Premiere. 

Tigre’s fly-posted door on scruffy Rivington Street gives no clue to the…