Everything Felt Cursed After Carrie Nation Closed
Before it became Ginger’s, the Brooklyn gay bar was its very own neighborhood opera.
- story: Alexander Chee
- illustration: Lydia Ortiz
Dardy Bar Doesn’t Want You to Grow Up
A Williamsburg dive that falls somewhere between rock ‘n’ roll bar and eighth grade art project.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photos: Eric Medsker
How a Notoriously Inhospitable Dive Became the New York City Media Hangout
“Cool digs, but the bartender’s shitty attitude turned me off.”
- story: Meredith Clark
- photos: Shannon Sturgis
Drinking With Crime Fiction Writer Megan Abbott
In anticipation of her ninth novel, Give Me Your Hand, the crime fiction writer Megan Abbott talks Raymond Chandler’s take on the Gimlet, “old man bars” and more.
- story: Jason Diamond
- photo: Eric Medsker
How Other Half Became the Official Beer of Wall Street
When did this Brooklyn brewery join the ranks of Macallan and Patrón in the Wall Street banker’s official bar kit?
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Lizzie Munro
A Drinking Tour of Coney Island
Despite efforts to redevelop the iconic boardwalk, Coney Island remains a bastion of simple, unpretentious drinking.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photos: Lizzie Munro
The Charm of a Bar That Offers Nothing Special At All
In “Deep Dive,” we send writers back to their college haunts. This round: Jamie Feldmar on the charms of the Williamsburg neighborhood dive, Daddy's.
- story: Jamie Feldmar
- illustration: Maria Hergueta
Daily News: The Science of Why Champagne is Delicious, Bushwick’s “Man Bun Special”
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Growing interest in American whiskeys has spawned an expanding industry of whiskey writing, according to The New York…
- story: Chloe Frechette
Toby Cecchini | Owner, The Long Island Bar
There is something perpetually boyish about bartender Toby Cecchini. It might have something to do with the curling thatch of hair that flops over his forehead. Or his round, wire…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Doron Gild
Daily News: Edinburgh’s Morning-Hour Pubs, Bushwick Gets First Brewery in 40 Years
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: - Once one of the country's leading beer-producing areas, Bushwick will open its first brewery in 40 years. - Saveur documents the…
- story: Chloe Frechette
