Halloween · West Village · Updated October 19, 2026 Eleven bars within five minutes of the parade route, plus ours at eight. Here is when each one closes. On Saturday, October 31, 2026 the Village Halloween Parade fills 6th Avenue from King Street to West 15th Street, from 7:00 PM until about 11:00 PM. The […]
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Gluten-Free Dining, Park Slope, West Village
Gluten Free Beer and Cider Bar NYC, 2026: Who Lists What
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Gluten-free · New York City · Updated October 13, 2026 Seven New York rooms list a gluten-free beer. Only three can show it was brewed without barley. We read the drinks lists of bars across Manhattan and Brooklyn for anything a guest who avoids gluten can order, then checked each brewer’s own word on how […]
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Cocktails · Park Slope · Updated October 12, 2026 Fifteen rooms around Park Slope print a cocktail list. Ten put a price on it. We read the drinks menus the neighborhood’s cocktail rooms publish and wrote down what is on them: how many drinks, what each one costs, and what there is for someone who […]
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Cider · Park Slope · Updated October 13, 2026 Twelve Park Slope bars print a cider. Half of them pour the same one. We read every drinks list the bars around Park Slope publish and pulled out the ciders: which brand, which cidery, what a glass costs, and whether the list says when it was […]
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Date night · Manhattan · Updated September 30, 2026 A Manhattan date can cost $44 or $130 before the food. Nine rooms, priced from their own sites. Uptown piano bars, a Midtown rooftop, three jazz clubs and two hidden cocktail rooms: we read what each one charges to get in, what two drinks cost and […]
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Date night · Brooklyn · Updated October 17, 2026 Two cocktails on a Brooklyn date cost $30 to $50. Twelve of these thirteen rooms print the price. We read the menus, booking rules and closing times of thirteen date-night rooms across the borough, from a rooftop over the East River to a jazz bar in […]
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Craft beer · Brooklyn · Updated October 13, 2026 Brooklyn’s best-known brewery is closed for a move. Twelve other rooms are pouring. We read the websites of the breweries and beer bars that Brooklyn guides keep sending people to. Some are thriving, one is between buildings, one has left Gowanus, and a few old web […]
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Date night · West Village · Updated October 17, 2026 Twelve rooms within ten minutes of our garden. Here is how each one lets you in. The West Village is full of places for a date, and each one has its own door policy: a booking app, a ticket, a drink minimum per set, cash […]
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Date night · Park Slope · Updated October 17, 2026 A sports bar is a strange choice for a date. Here is when it works. We run a sports bar, so we know what a Knicks night sounds like from a table for two. This guide is for the other nights: when our screens are […]
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Craft beer · Park Slope · Updated September 29, 2026 Fifteen tap lists, 214 lines. Guinness is on eleven of them. A craft beer bar should be able to tell you what is pouring before you walk in. We read every draft list the bars around Park Slope put online, counted the lines, and checked […]