Dancing Away the Heartache, Tacos Included

“AT Tacos 2004, a taqueria in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, whose bland red-brick exterior belies the rollicking scene inside, six waitresses two-stepped and twirled their customers across an impossibly small dance floor. The women wore identical white tops and black miniskirts with high slits that fanned out when they whirled.

On a recent Friday night, not a single taco or frosty Tecate was served until the overwrought Tejano ballads blasting from the jukebox faded and the flushed waitresses pocketed the $2-per-dance fee. No one seemed to mind the delay.

The waitresses are a considerable draw for the clientele, most of them recent Mexican immigrants who go to Tacos 2004 directly from jobs as construction workers, carpenters and busboys.”

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