Happy New Year!
Wishing you a safe and prosperous 2013. Our New Year’s Resolution: More NYC pub crawls in 2013!
Pondering the end of 2012 in NYC bar terms
So, here we are on the last day of the year 2012. Looking back, it was quite a year for us in terms of number of bars visited. We visited nearly 75 newly opened bars in Manhattan, nearly 40 newly-opened spots in Brooklyn and...
An update on the South Street Seaport bars
As a follow-up to our post from earlier this month, it sounds as though numerous South Street Seaport bars, particularly the ones along Front Street (Stella, Nelson Blue, Bin 220, Keg 229), will be closed for several more...
The weekend in pub crawling
We had a solid NYC pub crawling weekend. Checked out several spots on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, including Two Bit’s Retro Arcade and Fig 19. We’ll have brief reviews on both spots forthcoming. We’re gonna continue bar...
If you’re looking for a NYC pub crawl this weekend
There’s the “not bar crawl” called Santa Con NYC, starting early on Saturday, December 15. If it’s anything like previous years, it will be a good time.
Saying farewell to one NYC bar and hello to a new one
Last week, we got word that The Hairy Monk had closed, following a dispute with its landlord (aren’t these disputes happening an awful lot of late? We digress — full DNAinfo story here). The Hairy Monk was a solid...
Happy December 5th!
Today marks the 79th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. On this date in 1933, Utah became the 36th U.S. state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution (achieving the required 75% of states to approve...
The status of some South Street Seaport bars five weeks after Sandy
A few weeks go, we reported that most of the South Street Seaport bars were still closed for business in the Sandy aftermath. We took another visit there recently and are unhappy to report that not much has improved. Of the...
Only one more month of bar crawling in 2012
Hard to believe that today is the last day of November. The year 2012 has flown by, seemingly, just like many other recent years. NYC has seen some great new bars open up this year, particularly some additions to the...
New bars we need to visit
Several new spots have either just opened for business or are about to open. We look forward to bar hopping/pub crawling to these new spots. Two in Manhattan’s Lower East Side have caught our attention: Subject at 188...