He’s asking for their IDs — and they’re asking for his number.
Luke Timm, 26, manages the door outside Lower East Side bar 82 Stanton, but the 6-foot-5 bouncer with electric hazel eyes has also become the reason for the crowd.
“I don’t wanna sound like an arrogant a – – hole,” Timm, who lives in East Village, told The Post. “I always knew I was, like, a good-looking guy.”
The bar, formerly Epstein’s at the corner of Stanton and Allen, has typically welcomed a casual crowd of 20-somethings drinking beer on their outdoor patio since opening in 2018.
However, since Poughkeepsie, New York, native Timm began posting TikToks as @security_nyc, flashing his six-pack abs at the bar and flirting with regulars, single females have rushed to the sidewalk where Timm is perched from happy hour until close most nights.
“Literally gonna come to this bar solely for u I’m obsessed,” one excited woman commented.
“I would die for you,” added another.
But women are much more reserved when meeting Timm in person — they don’t want to scare him off.
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“He definitely lived up to the hype,” Victoria Emerson, 26, told The Post, giggling. “He is a very good-looking person.”
Emerson and two girlfriends joined the gaggle of gals at the bar recently after seeing his videos. Now, they regularly stop by 82 Stanton for the eye candy.
On their first visit, Emerson and her crew left with three numbers — including Timm’s.
“Honestly, I feel like he just sets the tone. The combination of him being super attractive and super friendly kind of makes you feel in the mood to mingle,” she said.
Timm went from unknown to hunk overnight when he was mentioned on the popular “Match Made in Manhattan” podcast. “82 Stanton. Oh, my God, the bouncer was so hot,” one of the hosts said. “People were overflowing.”
And according to Timm, after he came forward as the “hot bouncer,” 82 Stanton had its “best week of the summer.”
“It’s given me a little LES fame,” he admitted.
Now, the crowd has gone from beer-chugging finance bros and the women who adore them to a slightly younger, mostly female crowd laughing a bit too loudly as they try to grab Timm’s attention.
On a recent night, women in their early- to mid-20s batted their enhanced eyelashes as they gathered around the tables by the door, hoping to go home with him, get his number or at least be asked to star in his next viral video.
“I’m not actively searching for a partner but, of course, I’m having fun and doing my thing,” Timm, who confirmed he’s single, said.
However, Timm insisted that the people behind 82 Stanton don’t want it to be “a TikTok bar” — so he wants to “make sure its regular base is down-to-earth people.”
Another seemingly contradictory stance: Timm is six years sober and on a mission to help others who struggle with addiction and mental health.
The former high school football and basketball star watched his dreams slip away after he was kicked off the Princeton football team following his second drug and alcohol-related arrest when he was just 19.
Timm said his struggles began much earlier when he started drinking at 12 years old and smoking marijuana as a sophomore. He said he was high so often, it became his new normal, despite being a successful high school athlete.
But when his addiction got him kicked off the football team and out of the Ivy League school, it finally clicked. It wasn’t easy, but Timm has been sober since April 21, 2018, which allowed him to return to Princeton to finish his degree.
“I’ve never had a desire to [drink or do drugs again],” Timm insisted. “It’s the craziest thing. I think I just totally rewired my brain.”
Now, he and his cousin John Timm, who manages 82 Stanton, have co-founded Touch Streets, an organization to help recovering addicts “map out their goals” to make positive changes in their lives.
And despite his past, Timm isn’t on a mission to sober everyone up.
“I’m almost promoting drinking,” he admitted. “There’s a lot of people who can enjoy alcohol and whatnot and not have it be a huge issue in their lives.”
He’s just not one of them. So at the bar, he sips on water and makes sure everyone is having a fun, safe time.
And when his backstory comes up, it just makes the women swoon even more.
“People are kind of just pretty infatuated by a good comeback story,” he said, although his tale doesn’t seem to be the main reason for the crowd.
“He’s cute,” Tali Atias, 24, told The Post while waiting outside the bar. “I’ll definitely be back.”
