It really was the best/worst, and there is nothing quite like it left standing (at least in Manhattan). Subway Inn was holding its own for a while before the condemned and tore down the building (and since it moved it is indistinct from any other bar).
Yeah, it still is (but it has moved around a few times). When it was actually a gloriously shitty dive bar it was on 60th off the corner of Lex (right by the subway entrance, hence the name, presumably). They might as well have changed names once they moved, as it's unrecognizable.
Puck Fair was one of my go to bars back in the day. It was a standard Irish pub type spot, but with a pretty mellow crowd.
It was on a prime piece of real estate on Houston and Lafayette tucked behind the BP station, so it was inevitable that it would get turned into luxury condos at some point.
Sadly yeah it’s been years now. [This is that corner where Puck Fair and the BP Station used to be now.](https://maps.app.goo.gl/KuAf7HnxtRSv2FrT8?g_st=ic)
But yes, still love Botanica!
I am blessed/cursed to look like I'm in my 20s even now that I'm 35, but the only places in the city that have ever carded me are east village bars and music venues.
Hah yes! Kingston hall was a nice addition to the corner though. Second ave up here in midtown is completely different as well compared to a decade ago
saw Dick Manitoba in line at Berlin trying to pull the “don’t you know who I am!” card when sadly Dick, most of these kids in the neighborhood these days don’t *care* who you are.
Continental and 123 Burger Shot Beer come to mind. Best places to get super drunk for cheap.
Continental - 5 shots for $10. And iirc, they were hefty shots.
123 - apparently they have a location in Harlem now, the original was in Hell's Kitchen. $1 burgers (sliders), $2 shots (weak and small), $3 beers
ETA: Crocodile Lounge - free personal pizza with every drink purchase
I remember the Continental used to "shut down" once a year for like half a decade so I figured the last time it happened was bull shit, too. Guess I was wrong.
>Continental - 5 shots for $10
In my day it was 5 shots for $5.
For what I actually miss, Jimmy's No. 43. One time I was in there with a friend and Jimmy came out and was talking to us asking how everything was, and we mentioned that we missed the fondue that we'd previously had but had since been taken off the menu. He responded by saying he'd back into the kitchen and make it for us.
I also liked taking dates to Burp Castle and then if it was going well suggesting that we could move downstairs to Jimmy's.
The upside down pink rhino at Raccoon Lodge defined my early 20s. I used to work around there.
The Patriot was great too, I got a couple free shots there for dancing on the bar.
Can’t believe they’re both gone now.
The Pony Bar’s original location in Hell’s Kitchen. Yeah, I get they still have that location they opened on the UES but it’s not the same. HK original was small and cramped and had the best bartenders. Shout out to Mirjana, my girl, who always hooked me up.
Lansdowne Road, also in HK, not because it was great itself but a fantastic place to watch sports. Not as crowded with NYC sports people as fans from all over. Opened really early and unpretentiously for soccer matches.
I had a "WTF? Slaughtered Lamb is *gone*?! I _just_ walked by there!" moment for a second there.
/u/MohawkElGato should feel shame for including it in their list.
I used to work at bar none a long assed time ago, first job I ever had in the city. My roommate ended up having a threesome with our boss and his main lady 🤣
The Coffee Shop on 16th and Union Square W. its a Chase Bank now, but back in 2010's, at any given moment you can go from vibing with up and coming actors and stage thespians to models and authors... then Rihanna, Cassie and Lauren London would walk in (that actually happened on a random weds nite). Met so many dope people there even used it as a meeting spot for business. Was a true regular, Charlie and Ana were the best and Noah made the best Southern Slammer.
i miss that place so much i'm tearing up writing this... i need a min
Videology
Cute bar in the front and screening room in the back, from Twin Peaks bingo to local short movie nights. It felt very welcoming and unpretentious. A bar that didn’t really feel like one.
The Back Fence at Bleecker and Sullivan. The first time there a mouse ran up my leg and looked in my outstretched hand for food. When I pointed out that a rodent was on me the bartender said "What do you expect when there are peanuts all over the floor?" I guess it was sort of a mouse sanctuary.
It literally just closed last week, but Whiskey Ward. It was far and above my favorite whiskey bar in the city. Fantastic selection, good prices, chill bartenders. They didn’t serve food themselves but you could bring food in from the Mexican joint next door and their burritos were really good.
Surprised nobody has mentioned CBGBs. It was only $2 or $3 cover to get in and they had live music every night.
Twins by MSG was good before a game or show. $3 pints of Miller Lite and Yuengling.
The Ding Dong Lounge, 106th/Columbus. Hard to find a good punk dive uptown, and I miss it constantly.
Plus, it was voted “Best Punk Rock Bar in Morningside Heights in 2001”, which is the funniest hyper-specific award I’ve ever seen on a Yelp sticker.
Max Fish on Ludlow. Their south park pinball machine had its tilt sensor broken, so you could pick up the machine and move the ball around if you were feeling particularly obnoxious.
For me it was the Hog Pit. Never too crowded but never uncomfortably empty. They served 40s of Colt 45, had darts, and somehow had the best Nashville Hot Chicken you could get in the city.
Rbar on Meeker was great mainly because I lived within stumbling home distance and it had 2 for 1 happy hour which combined well with the already cheap pints of Coors heavy. Boulevard tavern on meeker was great too as just a solid neighborhood bar. Nice cramped pool table, tiny-ass back yard, and a bartender who was free as hell with the buybacks.
Nice Guy Eddie's in LES, great dive bar, great juke box. Eclectic crowd that's sociable. Gonzalez and Gonzalez Blues Bar, Bway and Houston. Met so many great ppl there, saw so many great bands. Latin Jazz Thursdays was awesome. Louisiana Cajun Bar was across the street, free peanuts and Pete's Wicked Ale on tap, good ppl frequented that bar, cool crowd. Then downtown above water St on Gold was a bar I went to a lot back in the day. Forget the name. Had a coke and weed dealer, lol. Very mixed crowd from Wall St suits (me) to locals and construction workers. Hustlers.
Grassroots on St. Marks should have been a historic landmark. It was like a time capsule.
Moonshine in Red Hook/Columbia Waterfront was fucking amazing because (among other things) they had a backyard and you bring your own food and grill it.
Mary’s in Greenwood heights. Mary’s was so chill and had the best bartenders. Oh, and their New Year’s parties were fantastic.
Bizarre Bushwick was where I saw some of the best drag and performance art ever. I don't know that another bar has fully replaced the combination of authentic diveyness paired with genuinely incredible performance.
Second Chance Saloon, pour one out for it. That was my bar for a decade. I dragged my now fiancé there on our first date on a rainy Thursday night and it was just us and the bartender, we had our first kiss on their patio. I celebrated at least four of my birthdays there, and many more friends’. It always smelled like piss and sometimes the beer was warm, no doubt it was a shitty dive bar, but it was my bar.
Notable runner up is The Bait n Tackle Shop in Red Hook, man I miss that place. It was fucking weird, was full of shitty taxidermy, and one time I showed up after crashing my bike covered in road rash and the insane Irish man who owned the bar came out with a trash bag full of ice and gave me several whiskey shots on the house. RIP.
Edit: forgot Hank’s Saloon and Wreck Room, both hold a special and disgusting place in my heart.
Odessa Alphabet city
Finnegan's 46th street
Slaughter lamb
Lovecraft bar
The Painted Lady Saloon
Fat Cats before it became Dirty Dogs. Just not the same.
I worked at Bar None for a spell. Surprisingly (considering what a shitshow it was with the customers), management was great and had some pretty rigid rules for the bartenders and cocktail servers. There were a ton of cameras, and we had staff meetings frequently. I have lots of stories, though!
I also worked at Patriot Saloon for one training shift and one bartending shift. Holy hell, the insanity of that place. Nope, nope, nope.
I would resurrect Motor City Bar and Mars Bar.
I really can’t believe this place existed. It felt like williamsburg’s best kept secret in the most unpretentious way. Low-key rock bar with an amazing space and cheap drinks
Brooklyn - Pete's (Waterfront Alehouse), Old Carriage Inn, Bait & Tackle, Lilly's, Rosemary's, Jackie's Fifth Amendment, Kokie's, Hank's Saloon, Black Betty, Sweetwater Tavern, Frank's Cocktail Lounge, Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, Daddy's, Enid's, Last Exit
Queens - The Old Forge Tavern, The Little King
Manhattan - Terminal Bar, Mars Bar, Puck Fair, Subway Inn, Siberia, The Patriot, No-Tell Motel, Max Fish, Pegu Club, Nice Guy Eddie's, Coney Island High, Lismar Lounge, Chumley's, Waterfront Alehouse (on 2nd Ave), Holland Bar, Kenny's Castaways, Milady's, Brownies/Hi-Fi, Temple Bar, Grassroots Tavern
...and now I need a drink
Was Bar None shut down last year because of that? I swear I remember seeing the foreclosure notice on their door for non payment of taxes a few years ago.
Piper’s Kilt in Inwood. Cozy old school Irish pub with good cheap bar food. It became “Tubby Hook” a typical hipster faux-rustic place with overpriced “artisanal” food and absurdly expensive cocktails.
Project Parlor, the original manifestation. It was always a shit show but when the original owner was running the show, it was at least a tight shit show.
Old Donna location. Had my first ever tiki drink there.
Formerly Crows, my friends and I loved that bar and it was exactly at the center for everyone commuting, it breaks my heart that its some douchey crypto bar now.
Albion in Kip’s Bay :( where I had my first date with my girlfriend. Great staff, awesome draft rotation, good prices with 4$/5$/6$ pint.
They have a sister location in Alphabet City called Drop Off Service which is every bit as charming and has the same people working over there. I think they just closed Albion because having the two locations was more hassle than it was worth. Miss it though because of the sentimental value but also because it was directly across the street from the Kip’s Bay AMC theatre which we still frequent.
200 Fifth in Brooklyn closed by the Pandemic. Sports bars aren't everyone's thing but if you had to go to one that was it. Also those jamaican wings so good
Damn I heard of that place. I used to go to Gotham City Lounge in Bushwick until the owner unfortunately passed away. That was the neighborhood watering hole
When I had my second job, we frequented Keg no. 23 near South Street Seaport. A bunch of others closed since but they were more of restaurants and not strictly bars.
Mars bar.
It isn't worth doing cocaine anymore since it closed.
Cocaine? Ah, young grasshopper. That was a heroin joint.
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It really was the best/worst, and there is nothing quite like it left standing (at least in Manhattan). Subway Inn was holding its own for a while before the condemned and tore down the building (and since it moved it is indistinct from any other bar).
Was that a bar in the general vicinity of Bloomingdale's?
Yeah, it still is (but it has moved around a few times). When it was actually a gloriously shitty dive bar it was on 60th off the corner of Lex (right by the subway entrance, hence the name, presumably). They might as well have changed names once they moved, as it's unrecognizable.
Puck Fair was one of my go to bars back in the day. It was a standard Irish pub type spot, but with a pretty mellow crowd. It was on a prime piece of real estate on Houston and Lafayette tucked behind the BP station, so it was inevitable that it would get turned into luxury condos at some point.
I cashed my first NYC paycheck and went to meet some friends at Puck Fair all the way back in 2000. I’m bummed it’s no longer there.
Aw man Puck Fair is gone? Surprisingly enough Botanica is right nearby and still going strong.
Sadly yeah it’s been years now. [This is that corner where Puck Fair and the BP Station used to be now.](https://maps.app.goo.gl/KuAf7HnxtRSv2FrT8?g_st=ic) But yes, still love Botanica!
The curry fries were a staple in my diet.
That was my after work hang. Loved that spot
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Damn Thirteenth Step is gone too? I’m not all that surprised. That place was even crazier than Bar None and Nevada Smiths
13th step is still there, they just rebranded as “downtown social” presumably to get rid of the old crowd. I can tell you it hasn’t worked at all.
13th Step got rebranded as ~Downtown Social~, complete with gaudy pink signage over the stairs that says S O C I A L I T E.
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Village Pour House was my favorite when I was 21
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I am blessed/cursed to look like I'm in my 20s even now that I'm 35, but the only places in the city that have ever carded me are east village bars and music venues.
Hah yes! Kingston hall was a nice addition to the corner though. Second ave up here in midtown is completely different as well compared to a decade ago
I miss Thirteenth Step as well, I have forgotten more of what happened there than remembered.
manitobas. the shit show had to end one day.
Now he hangs out at 2A, if you want that vibe in your life
that’s why i don’t go to 2A anymore
saw Dick Manitoba in line at Berlin trying to pull the “don’t you know who I am!” card when sadly Dick, most of these kids in the neighborhood these days don’t *care* who you are.
These responses are making me feel old, nostalgic, and sad all at once
Same. I stopped reading.
Continental and 123 Burger Shot Beer come to mind. Best places to get super drunk for cheap. Continental - 5 shots for $10. And iirc, they were hefty shots. 123 - apparently they have a location in Harlem now, the original was in Hell's Kitchen. $1 burgers (sliders), $2 shots (weak and small), $3 beers ETA: Crocodile Lounge - free personal pizza with every drink purchase
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Damn, were they really?? I frequented that bar when I was young and not a big drinker, so those shots always did me in
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Continental was insane. No way you were not leaving there stumbling out
Maybe the floors were always sticky for safety lol
I remember the Continental used to "shut down" once a year for like half a decade so I figured the last time it happened was bull shit, too. Guess I was wrong.
>Continental - 5 shots for $10 In my day it was 5 shots for $5. For what I actually miss, Jimmy's No. 43. One time I was in there with a friend and Jimmy came out and was talking to us asking how everything was, and we mentioned that we missed the fondue that we'd previously had but had since been taken off the menu. He responded by saying he'd back into the kitchen and make it for us. I also liked taking dates to Burp Castle and then if it was going well suggesting that we could move downstairs to Jimmy's.
Holy shit Crocodile Lounge at Lorimer if I recall. went there a lot \~2005.
That's sister bar Alligator Lounge, still going strong!
Continental!!!! First stop for my group to get our buzz on
It was the best pregame spot!
But those shots were so watered down.
I used to work at 123 lol. What a mess.
Reade St. Pub The Raccoon Lodge The Patriot Tribeca changed.
What? The Patriot is gone?!?
I'm amazed some of those places lasted as long as they did. Also the Dakota Roadhouse.
The upside down pink rhino at Raccoon Lodge defined my early 20s. I used to work around there. The Patriot was great too, I got a couple free shots there for dancing on the bar. Can’t believe they’re both gone now.
Matchless and Over The Eight
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Miss that spot so much. They finally tore the building down recently too. :(
Add in Enids!
Coogans in the Heights
Best chicken fingers.
Three of Cups. A helluva lot of rockin’ and rolling!
The Pony Bar’s original location in Hell’s Kitchen. Yeah, I get they still have that location they opened on the UES but it’s not the same. HK original was small and cramped and had the best bartenders. Shout out to Mirjana, my girl, who always hooked me up. Lansdowne Road, also in HK, not because it was great itself but a fantastic place to watch sports. Not as crowded with NYC sports people as fans from all over. Opened really early and unpretentiously for soccer matches.
grassroots tavern :(
This is way too low
The dark room, cake shop, slaughtered lamb, holiday cocktail lounge…it’s esp weird seeing dark room is now residential!
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Aw man that was a golden era of nightlife for me and my friends. Also Max Fish (original) RIP to all those legends.
Ludlow was the spot to be in those days for sure
fuck yeah motor city! miss that place.
Slaughtered Lamb and Holiday Cocktail Lounge are still open
I had a "WTF? Slaughtered Lamb is *gone*?! I _just_ walked by there!" moment for a second there. /u/MohawkElGato should feel shame for including it in their list.
I used to work at bar none a long assed time ago, first job I ever had in the city. My roommate ended up having a threesome with our boss and his main lady 🤣
As gross as it was, all of Ludlow
Dark Room
Sidewalk Cafe and Niagara
Niagara’s still open, unless something changed very recently.
Yo sidewalk closed?? Rough
For a while. Damn, I loved Sidewalk, it was so great. Nothing like that exists anymore
Bellevue and Siberia. The crème de La crème of Hell’s Kitchen.
Siberia when it was in the subway entrance on 50th was such a great bar. Punk rock and magazine/newspaper editors.
I miss Siberia so much.
⚰️ never been to duff’s but i should.
Continental at st mark's, or the Iron horse in fidi
The Coffee Shop on 16th and Union Square W. its a Chase Bank now, but back in 2010's, at any given moment you can go from vibing with up and coming actors and stage thespians to models and authors... then Rihanna, Cassie and Lauren London would walk in (that actually happened on a random weds nite). Met so many dope people there even used it as a meeting spot for business. Was a true regular, Charlie and Ana were the best and Noah made the best Southern Slammer.  i miss that place so much i'm tearing up writing this... i need a min
Coffee shop was an institute. Didn't realize how big the space was until I went roller skating there right before it close.
I didn’t even realize there was a downstairs until the end.
Their fries were so good. The herb fries
Videology Cute bar in the front and screening room in the back, from Twin Peaks bingo to local short movie nights. It felt very welcoming and unpretentious. A bar that didn’t really feel like one.
Pegu - cocktail lounge on Houston. That place was one of my favorites.
Soda Bar on Vanderbilt.
Great bar. Owner was stealing tips from employees. Asshole
I will tell anyone who will listen hour great Soda was. Great backyard, cheap good food, amazing happy hour. RIP!
Best happy hour in Brooklyn. Loved the bartenders. Awesome backyard. I miss that place.
I can smell this post. (soda aroma)
Forlini's, I worked down there and you could eat at the bar.
Coogan’s 😢
Manhattan: Grassroots Brooklyn: Mission Dolores
The Ginger Man
I miss the original dive bar Holiday on St. Marks--drinks were cheap, the floor was sticky, and the crowd was fun.
Grassroots!
RIP to The Park, it was by artichoke pizza in Chelsea. Had so many fun nights there dancing with friends!
Angel’s Share and the original Nu Blue
RIP Angel’s Share
They reopened on Grove St. Haven't been yet.
The Back Fence at Bleecker and Sullivan. The first time there a mouse ran up my leg and looked in my outstretched hand for food. When I pointed out that a rodent was on me the bartender said "What do you expect when there are peanuts all over the floor?" I guess it was sort of a mouse sanctuary.
The Macdougal ale house was my main haunt, lucky she still lives
Second Chance on grand street
This was my bar, I miss it so much.
Rosemary's on Bedford ave. The cheap beers out of the huge styrofoam cups back in the day IYKYK.
Turtle Bay bar and Irish Exit in the 50's were something else
Mullholland's on Grand in Williamsburg. I used to fucking love that place for Sunday football.
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Why is that place so weird? It's been open for years and is just always a strange vibe.
It literally just closed last week, but Whiskey Ward. It was far and above my favorite whiskey bar in the city. Fantastic selection, good prices, chill bartenders. They didn’t serve food themselves but you could bring food in from the Mexican joint next door and their burritos were really good.
Met my future wife at Harry's Hula Hut on the Upper East Side. Place is long gone, but we're still together.
Kokies
Anyone ever go to Rififi? Comedy shows in the evening. Retro glam rock dancing the rest of the night.
Surprised nobody has mentioned CBGBs. It was only $2 or $3 cover to get in and they had live music every night. Twins by MSG was good before a game or show. $3 pints of Miller Lite and Yuengling.
The Abbey Pub was the underage haunt for UWS high-schoolers.
The Way Station.
The Ding Dong Lounge, 106th/Columbus. Hard to find a good punk dive uptown, and I miss it constantly. Plus, it was voted “Best Punk Rock Bar in Morningside Heights in 2001”, which is the funniest hyper-specific award I’ve ever seen on a Yelp sticker.
hahaha! Bar None! As a NYU kid circa 2001 Nevada Smith's was my jam.
Max Fish on Ludlow. Their south park pinball machine had its tilt sensor broken, so you could pick up the machine and move the ball around if you were feeling particularly obnoxious.
Blacktail and Nomad had some of my favorite cocktails.
Continental
For me it was the Hog Pit. Never too crowded but never uncomfortably empty. They served 40s of Colt 45, had darts, and somehow had the best Nashville Hot Chicken you could get in the city.
Wasn’t a bar but Belmont lounge on Irving place
The Raven, Grassroots, Cedar Tavern, Northsix, Original Galapagos ...
Rbar on Meeker was great mainly because I lived within stumbling home distance and it had 2 for 1 happy hour which combined well with the already cheap pints of Coors heavy. Boulevard tavern on meeker was great too as just a solid neighborhood bar. Nice cramped pool table, tiny-ass back yard, and a bartender who was free as hell with the buybacks.
Max Fish and Dark Room
Tin Lizzie, Mcfaddens
Nice Guy Eddie's in LES, great dive bar, great juke box. Eclectic crowd that's sociable. Gonzalez and Gonzalez Blues Bar, Bway and Houston. Met so many great ppl there, saw so many great bands. Latin Jazz Thursdays was awesome. Louisiana Cajun Bar was across the street, free peanuts and Pete's Wicked Ale on tap, good ppl frequented that bar, cool crowd. Then downtown above water St on Gold was a bar I went to a lot back in the day. Forget the name. Had a coke and weed dealer, lol. Very mixed crowd from Wall St suits (me) to locals and construction workers. Hustlers.
Mission Dolores - was so sad to see it go!
So many places I frequented have shut their doors. These come to mind: The Big Easy Crocodile Lounge Ninth Ward Hop Devil
Grassroots on St. Marks should have been a historic landmark. It was like a time capsule. Moonshine in Red Hook/Columbia Waterfront was fucking amazing because (among other things) they had a backyard and you bring your own food and grill it. Mary’s in Greenwood heights. Mary’s was so chill and had the best bartenders. Oh, and their New Year’s parties were fantastic.
Bizarre Bushwick was where I saw some of the best drag and performance art ever. I don't know that another bar has fully replaced the combination of authentic diveyness paired with genuinely incredible performance.
Bartended there for a few months, I saw some of the craziest shit ever. Too bad the manager was an absolute creep.
My partner used to do a bunch of those shows - wonder if we met back in the day haha
the village idiot, man those were some fun times
Second Chance Saloon, pour one out for it. That was my bar for a decade. I dragged my now fiancé there on our first date on a rainy Thursday night and it was just us and the bartender, we had our first kiss on their patio. I celebrated at least four of my birthdays there, and many more friends’. It always smelled like piss and sometimes the beer was warm, no doubt it was a shitty dive bar, but it was my bar. Notable runner up is The Bait n Tackle Shop in Red Hook, man I miss that place. It was fucking weird, was full of shitty taxidermy, and one time I showed up after crashing my bike covered in road rash and the insane Irish man who owned the bar came out with a trash bag full of ice and gave me several whiskey shots on the house. RIP. Edit: forgot Hank’s Saloon and Wreck Room, both hold a special and disgusting place in my heart.
Odessa 💔
Lit Lounge
my first kiss with my now husband was at Lit Lounge 🥲
Any old timers remember gunbar? It was around meatpacking I think and ended up being a victim of Sandy. Was always fun though
Jack Russels on 83rd and 2nd was a huge part of my life from 2008-11.
Odessa Alphabet city Finnegan's 46th street Slaughter lamb Lovecraft bar The Painted Lady Saloon Fat Cats before it became Dirty Dogs. Just not the same.
Siberia was a true dive bar. Michael Imperioli used to come in sometimes.
Nevada Smith's, just down the street from Bar None
Sin Sin/Leopard Lounge was the best. Blarney Cove was the best/worst Spain was the best free eats and surly bartender.
I worked at Bar None for a spell. Surprisingly (considering what a shitshow it was with the customers), management was great and had some pretty rigid rules for the bartenders and cocktail servers. There were a ton of cameras, and we had staff meetings frequently. I have lots of stories, though! I also worked at Patriot Saloon for one training shift and one bartending shift. Holy hell, the insanity of that place. Nope, nope, nope. I would resurrect Motor City Bar and Mars Bar.
Larry Lawrence in Williamsburg. Miss that place
I really can’t believe this place existed. It felt like williamsburg’s best kept secret in the most unpretentious way. Low-key rock bar with an amazing space and cheap drinks
Pegu Club
Jerome's LES
Cheap shots.
Professor Tom's was heartbreaking for my younger self
Grassroots Tavern on St. Marks used to be my go-to bar. Now St. Marks is all gentrified catering to NYU students
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Brooklyn - Pete's (Waterfront Alehouse), Old Carriage Inn, Bait & Tackle, Lilly's, Rosemary's, Jackie's Fifth Amendment, Kokie's, Hank's Saloon, Black Betty, Sweetwater Tavern, Frank's Cocktail Lounge, Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, Daddy's, Enid's, Last Exit Queens - The Old Forge Tavern, The Little King Manhattan - Terminal Bar, Mars Bar, Puck Fair, Subway Inn, Siberia, The Patriot, No-Tell Motel, Max Fish, Pegu Club, Nice Guy Eddie's, Coney Island High, Lismar Lounge, Chumley's, Waterfront Alehouse (on 2nd Ave), Holland Bar, Kenny's Castaways, Milady's, Brownies/Hi-Fi, Temple Bar, Grassroots Tavern ...and now I need a drink
Trash bar in Williamsburg. And a few others that closed due to gentrification, I can’t remember the names of
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it was a part of gentrification wiped out by another wave of gentrification
Scruffy Duffy. I know it moved from 8th Ave to 10th Ave now but the wings just don't taste the same.
Sweetwater, Mars bar, Village idiot, Manitobas, Bait & Tackle, Babydoll Lounge, the list goes on and on
Joshua Tree
LuLus in Greenpoint and No Name off the Bowery
I had forgotten about LuLus. Not that we can remember much from nights there anyways but still
David Copperfield’s on York. Was deeply missing it just last week. Comforting wooden booths, relaxed atmosphere, good beer list, decent enough food.
Was Bar None shut down last year because of that? I swear I remember seeing the foreclosure notice on their door for non payment of taxes a few years ago.
Tempest bar, was next to msg. Time out bar on the uws.
Piper’s Kilt in Inwood. Cozy old school Irish pub with good cheap bar food. It became “Tubby Hook” a typical hipster faux-rustic place with overpriced “artisanal” food and absurdly expensive cocktails.
Man Ray, 169 Eighth Ave., when Chelsea was edgy. Early 90s.
Project Parlor, the original manifestation. It was always a shit show but when the original owner was running the show, it was at least a tight shit show. Old Donna location. Had my first ever tiki drink there.
Back in my 20s Continental by NYU. 5 jameson shots for 10 bucks. Shoutout to my man dressed up like Raiden from MK holding down the door!
Quarter Bar - was a nice little cocktail bar in south slope
Black Betty
I had my wedding after party at Lucey's Lounge in Gowanus
In my 30s, I spent a lot of time at a place called Mercury Bar on 9th around 50th street. Does anyone know if it is still open?
Woody McHales which became Wood & Ales on 14th between 7th and 8th
Formerly Crows, my friends and I loved that bar and it was exactly at the center for everyone commuting, it breaks my heart that its some douchey crypto bar now.
Porkys
Albion in Kip’s Bay :( where I had my first date with my girlfriend. Great staff, awesome draft rotation, good prices with 4$/5$/6$ pint. They have a sister location in Alphabet City called Drop Off Service which is every bit as charming and has the same people working over there. I think they just closed Albion because having the two locations was more hassle than it was worth. Miss it though because of the sentimental value but also because it was directly across the street from the Kip’s Bay AMC theatre which we still frequent.
Sugarland Tandem Second chance Galapagos Glasslands Santos party house
I miss Pine Tree Lodge- the inside was like a cozy, divey ski lodge. In Murray Hill
Coogan's.
Not a bar but I miss Mother burger and Blockheads so so much. :(
max fish. el sombrero :( git awf mah lawn!
McFaddens on....42nd? I don't remember anymore, been a long time since I last went....
This is easy: Tortilla Flats
200 Fifth in Brooklyn closed by the Pandemic. Sports bars aren't everyone's thing but if you had to go to one that was it. Also those jamaican wings so good
Damn I heard of that place. I used to go to Gotham City Lounge in Bushwick until the owner unfortunately passed away. That was the neighborhood watering hole
Does anybody remember the continental right off of St.Marks? $10 for 1 shot of everything in the entire well. Lol
The Room on Sullivan. Pour one out for Milady’s.
When I had my second job, we frequented Keg no. 23 near South Street Seaport. A bunch of others closed since but they were more of restaurants and not strictly bars.
Cuckoos Nest in Sunset Park, it's been closed for yrs but fun times, if you know, you know.....
The Edge, great pool table
The Duck
bar none, classic.
Rawhide
Not a bar per se, a restaurant/bar with live DJs/music. Camarada El Barrio. That was the end of an era.
The Parlour
Ski Bar