Death & Co.
Dark, brooding and considerably obscured from prying eyes, Death & Co. is everything one expects a New York speakeasy-style bar to be. Heavily decorated with awards, the East Village legend has never…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Pete’s Tavern
This Irving Place tavern vies with McSorley’s for the title of New York’s oldest continually operating bar. While McSorley’s easily beats it in terms of character, Pete’s has considerable charm.…
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McSorley’s Old Ale House
Mc Sorley's is arguably New York’s most famous bar, and certainly its most celebrated. Rooted on E. 7th Street since before the Civil War, Lincoln visited it, John Sloan painted…
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Fraunces Tavern
This lower Manhattan landmark is actually a 1900 facsimile of the much-altered tavern founded by Samuel Fraunces in the 1760s. So you’re not exactly supping where General Washington supped. Still,…
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Ear Inn
This two-story, Revolutionary-era building has been host to a wide variety of drinking establishments over the centuries, including a speakeasy and an unnamed bar known only as The Green Door.…
- story: Leslie Pariseau