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 […]
Tag Archives: Nightlife
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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 […]
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Happy hour · Park Slope · Updated September 29, 2026 Thirty-three bar websites. Nineteen print a happy hour. A happy hour is only useful if you know when it starts, when it stops and what it takes off the bill. We read the websites of the bars around Park Slope to see which ones actually […]
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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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Neighborhood guide · West Village, Manhattan · Updated September 2026 Nine rooms you cannot find twice A sing-along with no microphones, a jazz basement that has streamed every set since 2007, a landmark the city designated for its history, and a car-shop bar with a heated garden out back. These are the unique bars in […]