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Somewhere to sit and drink, at four in the afternoon or one in the morning. Cocktail rooms, dive bars, wine counters — no bottle service, no list.

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Everywhere worth going

Hotel barBar Room at The Beekman · Bemelmans Bar DJ barKeyBar · Jupiter Disco Cocktail barBarely Disfigured · Bar Snack Speakeasy124 Old Rabbit Club · Angel's Share Wine barConcrete Shoals Bar stripOrchard Street PubThe Four-Faced Liar · Le Chéile Tiki barSunken Harbor Club Dive barJimmy's Corner · Sunny's Bar Natural wineThe Ten Bells Beer hallThe Bronx Brewery

Hotel bar

9.7Bar Room at The BeekmanFinancial District$$$A drink beneath a nine-story atrium in one of downtown's most beautiful historic buildings. Romantic, unhurried, and made with care.Rating TBDBemelmans BarUpper East Side$$$$Ludwig Bemelmans painted these walls in 1947 in exchange for a stay at the hotel, and nothing has changed.Rating TBDKing Cole BarMidtown$$$$The Maxfield Parrish mural, the Red Snapper, and a check you should see coming.Rating TBDSwan RoomLower East Side$$$$A restored 1912 bank turned into downtown’s most elegant hotel bar.

DJ bar

9.6KeyBarBushwick$A bar that actually looks after the people in it — the owner is in the crowd, and the shots keep arriving whether or not you ordered them.Rating TBDJupiter DiscoBushwick$$A sci-fi cocktail bar with a real sound system and usually no cover.

Cocktail bar

9.2Barely DisfiguredBoerum Hill$$$Proper cocktails under red light, in a Boerum Hill room with a past.Rating TBDBar SnackEast Village$$'70s vibes, serious drinks, and pickle-dusted cheese curds.Rating TBDClover ClubCarroll Gardens$$$Julie Reiner’s bar on Smith Street, and the best case for drinking in Brooklyn.Rating TBDDanteGreenwich Village$$$A century-old cafe turned into the best Negroni list in the city.Rating TBDDeath & CoEast Village$$$The bar that taught New York to take cocktails seriously, doing it since 2007.Rating TBDDouble Chicken PleaseLower East Side$$$Two bars in one building, and the back room is the one people fly in for.Rating TBDEmployees OnlyWest Village$$$A psychic in the window, bartenders in white jackets, open till 4.Rating TBDHotel DelmanoWilliamsburg$$$No sign, no hotel, marble bar, and the best-looking room in Williamsburg.Rating TBDKatana KittenWest Village$$$Japanese-American bar culture, and the best highball in the city.Rating TBDMaison PremiereWilliamsburg$$$Absinthe, oysters, and a back garden that doesn't feel like Brooklyn.Rating TBDMartiny'sGramercy$$$$Three floors of a Gramercy townhouse, run with Japanese precision.Rating TBDSip & GuzzleWest Village$$$Precision downstairs, fun upstairs, and currently the top-ranked bar in North America.Rating TBDSuperbuenoEast Village$$$Red light, Mexican-American drinks, and a packed room every night.Rating TBDThe Long Island BarCobble Hill$$A preserved 1950s diner bar with one of the coldest martinis in town.Rating TBDThe PenroseUpper East Side$$The bar that gave the Upper East Side somewhere to drink that is not a sports bar.Rating TBDWidow JaneRed Hook$$$A working whiskey distillery with a bar in the front room.

Speakeasy

9.1124 Old Rabbit ClubGreenwich Village$$$A true speakeasy, hidden in plain sight on MacDougal Street: no sign, unmarked stairs, and a dark room full of people who found it.Rating TBDAngel's ShareWest Village$$$The Japanese cocktail bar that set the standard, now on Grove Street.Rating TBDApothekeChinatown$$$An apothecary-themed bar on the most crooked block in Manhattan.Rating TBDAttaboyLower East Side$$$No menu, no sign. Tell them what you like and they'll make it.Rating TBDLittle BranchWest Village$$$Down a staircase off Seventh Avenue, with live jazz and no shortcuts.Rating TBDManhattan Cricket ClubUpper West Side$$$Up a staircase above an Australian restaurant, done out like a colonial club.Rating TBDNothing Really MattersMidtown$$$A cocktail bar hidden inside the 50th Street subway station. Literally.Rating TBDPatent PendingNoMad$$$Through the back of a coffee shop, in the building where Tesla worked.Rating TBDPlease Don't TellEast Village$$$You walk into a hot dog shop, get into the phone booth, and pick up the receiver.Rating TBDRaines Law RoomChelsea$$$No sign, a buzzer, and a bell on the table when you want another.Rating TBDschmuck.East Village$$$A bar tucked inside a bar, making drinks out of fennel and cinnamon buns.Rating TBDThe Back RoomLower East Side$$$One of the only bars in New York that was actually a speakeasy during Prohibition.

Wine bar

9.1Concrete ShoalsBrooklyn Heights$$A gated bar in a floating cottage at the Brooklyn Bridge Park marina. It feels like you need a yacht to get in. You don't, just a reservation.

Bar strip

9.1Orchard StreetLower East Side$$A street that gives you FOMO just walking down it — outdoor tables, shops, galleries, and no reason to leave.

Pub

8.9The Four-Faced LiarWest Village$$The best Guinness we have had in New York, in a dark room off Washington Square that never quite fills.Rating TBDLe ChéileWashington Heights$$The Hudson Heights local, where the neighborhood actually goes.Rating TBDThe Dead PoetUpper West Side$A narrow Irish pub where the cocktails are named after poets and nobody is performing.Rating TBDThe Dead RabbitFinancial District$$$A taproom downstairs, a cocktail parlor upstairs, and Irish coffee worth fighting over.Rating TBDTubby Hook TavernInwood$$An Inwood corner bar named after the old name for this bit of shoreline.

Tiki bar

Rating TBDSunken Harbor ClubDowntown Brooklyn$$$A nautical tiki bar hidden above a 140-year-old chophouse.

Dive bar

Rating TBDJimmy's CornerTimes Square$A boxing dive off Times Square where beer still costs single digits.Rating TBDSunny's BarRed Hook$A waterfront bar from another century, with a bluegrass jam on Saturdays.

Natural wine

Rating TBDThe Ten BellsLower East Side$$Candlelit natural wine on a chalkboard, going on 18 years.

Beer hall

Rating TBDThe Bronx BreweryPort Morris$$A working brewery in Port Morris with a backyard and food from whoever is cooking.