Jimmy’s Corner
Jimmy's Corner, located just a couple blocks off Times Square, maintains the air of an undiscovered time capsule from pre-Giuliani New York. Run by Jimmy and his wife, Swannie, the bar is…
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Billymark’s West
Billymark's is owned by Billy and Mark, of course—a pair of Queens-born brothers—and sits on the oddly ungentrified corner of 9th Avenue and W. 28th Street. A sprawling room equipped with…
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Rudy’s
Rudy's Bar & Grill has been around since the 1930s, and it's got the patina, Tiffany lampshades and jukebox to prove it. Marked by an old-timey neon sign and a…
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Winnie’s
Do you like karaoke? Do you like Chinatown? Do you like murky red drinks that taste of corn syrup and questionably mixed liquors? If the answer is yes, then Winnie's is probably…
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Alder
This casual cousin to wd-50, is where bar manager Kevin Denton adopts chef Wylie Dufresne's playfully experimental spirit in a rotating cast of cocktails—some available as "shorts"—that employ ingredients (like zershek,…
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Blue & Gold Tavern
Cheap as hell and universally likable, Blue & Gold is named for the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Its owners hail from the country, and it's one of the East…
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WXOU Radio
This West Village bar is more of a neighborhood bar than a dive, but it's got the time under its belt and the following to qualify as a bona fide…
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Lucy’s
Lucy has been bartending at Lucy's before it was called Lucy's. Most nights, the Polish owner is still there popping beer bottles and pouring whiskies. The bar, overlooking Thompson Square…
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Boilermaker
As its name alludes, there's nothing fancy about Boilermaker, the East Village venture of West Coast bartender Erick Castro and Cocktail Kingdom's Greg Boehm and Don Lee. There's also nothing immediately dive-y about…
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Pegu Club
One of the original cocktail bars to spur the New York renaissance, Audrey Saunders' Pegu Club is still a bastion of beautiful drinks. While it might not be as progressive today as…
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