Archive · modern edition Every bar New York on Tap knew, as it stood around 2008, with a 2026 check on each one. This page in the 2008 edition

No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Mare Chiaro

176 1/2 Mulberry St.
NoLita, Manhattan

Already closed by 2009

In 2026

Same bar, now Mulberry Street Bar

Later here: Mulberry Street Bar.

Checked October 20, 2026.

Overview

This venerable institution has become the Mulberry Street Tavern, which is much like Little Italy itself, an absurd tourist filled caricature of its former self.

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