Old Town Bar
Founded in the 1890s as a German drinking hall and currently under Irish ownership, the Old Town is nonetheless the most democratic of Gotham’s ancient taverns. Patrons range from twenty-…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Landmark Tavern
A Hudson River waterfront bar from back when 11th Avenue was the waterfront, the Landmark looks a lot more polished and pretty than it did during the 1860s, owing to…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Keens
Keens is the sole cultural leftover from the heady days of the late 1800s when Herald Square was the entertainment center of New York. During its heyday, it was the…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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,…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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
Five Iconic New York Cocktails
New York City is home to a number of iconic drinks: Here are five, from the Manhattan to the Bronx.
- story: Punch Staff
- photos: Multiple
Brooklyn
The lesser-known borough-based drink dates back to the first decade of the 20th century.
- story: Talia Baiocchi
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Red Hook
One of the more enduring modern riffs on the Brooklyn cocktail.
- story: Talia Baiocchi
- photo: Daniel Krieger
A Complete Tour of Manhattan, Led by a Manhattan Cocktail
How does all that Manhattan get into the Manhattan? We trailed one little guy from the Freedom Tower to Wall Street to Times Square to find out. Behold, a tour…
- story: Fatstache
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Fatstache
