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 · 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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Parties · Manhattan · Updated September 28, 2026 Fourteen of Manhattan’s most unusual rooms. Two print a price. A tavern from 1762, a lightship on the Hudson, a bowling floor you reach by slide, a bar inside Grand Central. Unique spots for private events in Manhattan are not hard to find; what is hard to […]
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Parties · West Village · Updated September 28, 2026 Twenty-three rooms. Four print a price. We are not one of them, yet. Cool spots for private events in the West Village are easy to name and hard to budget. We read the party pages of twenty-two neighbors and our own, and wrote down only what […]
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Drinks · West Village · Updated September 25, 2026 Eleven of North America’s best bars are in Manhattan. Four tell you the price. A cocktail bar in Manhattan, chosen from the 2026 North America’s 50 Best Bars list and checked against each bar’s own website: what a drink costs, how to get in, and how […]
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Drinks · West Village · Updated October 20, 2026 Manhattan’s craft beer map has holes in it. A craft beer bar in Manhattan, checked against each bar’s own tap list on one day: how many lines, what a pour costs, how fresh the list is, and which famous names no longer have a working website. […]
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Game Day · Manhattan · Updated October 21, 2026 The Garden sets the clock. Your neighborhood picks the bar. Where to watch NBA in Manhattan, by neighborhood: the bars around Madison Square Garden with walks we measured from the arena, the uptown options, and the downtown rooms. 40 Knicks home games at the Garden 21 […]
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Game Day · New York · Updated October 2026 Two teams, two arenas, one official bar list. New York is the only city with two NBA teams, and only one of them will tell you where to watch. The Knicks publish a 21-bar Tap Takeover list covering all five boroughs and three states. The Nets […]
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Drinks · West Village · Updated October 13, 2026 Three of the famous rooms now print a price. We print every one. Look for a cocktail bar in the West Village and you will find a great deal of atmosphere and, as of September 25, 2026, more information than there used to be. Three of […]
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Game Day · West Village · Updated October 2026 The West Village has no hockey bar. Here is where to go anyway. Where to watch NHL hockey in the West Village is a harder question than it sounds: not one Village bar promises the NHL on its own website this season. Here is what each […]