Recently-opened Manhattan bars on our radar

A few new Manhattan bars have popped up on our radar and we hope to include these in upcoming NYC bar crawls.  Over in Alphabet City, Mockingbird at 25 Avenue B (below the Tex-Mex eatery Avenida) picks up where Idle Hands left off.  We gather that Mockingbird is more Speakeasy than beer bar.  A few miles north in Midtown East, Sutton Bar Room at 1074 First Avenue has opened in the same space as Sin Bin (the space was State of Grace prior to Sin Bin).  And, by Penn Station, Rock & Reilly (a Los Angeles import) has just opened in a rooftop location at the Marriott Hotel at 218 West 35^th Street.  After we’ve had a chance to pub crawl to these spots, we will have a review of each in this space.  Stay tuned.