Escape the city heat at these 6 icy cool locations
On the rocks Minus5 Ice Bar Hilton Midtown, 1335 Sixth Ave.; 212- 757-4610, minus5experience.com You’ll feel as if you’re stepping into the ice palace in “Frozen” at Minus5, where the...
View Article‘Vampire’ coffee house offers drinks in blood bags
All that’s missing is Sookie Stackhouse. Following the success of strangely themed restaurants and people’s obsession with vampires and shows like “True Blood,” a bizarre coffee house in China has...
View Article‘Irish drunks’ again welcome at NY bar
Irish patrons — even tipsy ones — are once again welcome at one Long Island bar. The Dock Bar & Grill in Montauk had jokingly barred “Irish drunks” in a...
View Article5 new outdoor hotel bars in NYC to toast summer’s end
Can you imagine the ensuing body count when the concept of boozing on roofs was first introduced? Had to have been like 16 accidental plunges per minute during happy hour...
View ArticleBushwick’s newest bar serves up BBQ and boobs
The newest bar in Bushwick is the neighborhood’s most, er, titillating place to drink. The Boobie Trap opened last weekend as a cheeky shrine to all things boobs: The walls...
View Article4 spots to sample Amsterdam’s flourishing cocktail scene
So you want to get your buzz on in Amsterdam. Sure, you can drop by one of those notorious coffeeshops and request a weed menu, and there’s no shortage of...
View ArticleFamed gay bar struggles to find a new home
A famed Greenwich Village gay bar is struggling to find a new home, getting shunned at every turn by neighbors of the once-liberal bastion. Rent hovering around $20,000 a month...
View ArticleJersey guy scores big hustling Rock-Paper-Scissors
He’s the “Fast Eddie” Felson of Rock-Paper-Scissors. A Jersey IT guy who placed second in the World Rock-Paper-Scissors Championship now uses his prowess to beat Brooklyn bar patrons in the...
View ArticleThe self-proclaimed ‘first bar for pregnant women’ is here
Beer belly — or baby bump? A storefront in the East Village is billing itself as the city’s “first bar for pregnant women.” Gestations at Fifth Street and Avenue A...
View ArticleFind which bar is playing your team’s game with this app
A new app telling sports fans which local bars are broadcasting their favorite teams will be unveiled this week by its unlikely creators — two French women living in New...
View ArticleTimes Square staple Smith’s Bar is closing after 60 years
The neon lights at the Times Square watering hole Smith’s Bar will be going out for good Thursday after 60 years. The restaurant at 44th Street and Eighth Avenue is...
View ArticleManhattan prosecutor arrested for beating woman at a bar
A Manhattan prosecutor was arraigned in his own courthouse Friday night for beating up a woman in an Irish bar in Kips Bay, court papers state. Eli Cherkasky, 35, grabbed...
View ArticleDive-bar owner who ‘preyed on’ barmaids hit with lawsuit
Three female bartenders say their boss inundated them with unwanted raunchy come-ons — and now they want him to pay. Accused horn-dog David Sheeran, who owns Ninth Avenue dive bars...
View Article5 Brooklyn bars to boycott ‘Santa Con’
Hipster bars in Brooklyn are organizing a revolt over “Santa Con” coming to town. Bar owners and staffers in hard-partying, fast-gentrifying Bushwick — which has been tapped to host this...
View Article4 NYC bars where dogs are allowed, despite city law
Last month, Bobby Gagnon was issued a stiff fine from the Health Department. His crime? Allowing dogs in his popular Park Slope bar, the Gate. Gagnon subsequently banned pups from...
View ArticleSantas lawyer up after bars say Ho Ho No!
These Santa babies say they have a constitutional right … to paaaartaay! And now they’ve hired a big-gun lawyer to prove it. SantaCon — the group that annually exposes New...
View ArticleSecretive club holds city’s oldest continuous liquor license
They’ve been pouring it on — legally — since Prohibition ended. The city’s oldest liquor license belongs to an Upper East Side club, a spirited review of state booze permits...
View Article5 festive drinks to toast the New Year
Last call for 2014! Bid a festive farewell to the past (and the holiday season) with one of these dreamy drinks found around the city. From creamy spiked cocoas to...
View ArticleBars battle anti-booze activists
Lower East Side nightclub owners are in a bar fight against anti-booze activists — prompting what some hospitality reps are calling the death of New York night life. The bar...
View ArticleThis Brooklyn bar is also a skateboarding paradise
Joshua Castro is whipping around so fast, his skateboard wheels are making a whooshing noise like traffic on the BQE. He pushes his board up the side of a 6-foot...
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