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Nice Guy Eddie's, photographed for New York on Tap
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Nice Guy Eddie's

5 Ave. A · at Houston St.
East Village, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Bar Bianchi

Later here: Boulton & Watt (licensed 2022–24).

Checked October 20, 2026.

Overview

A corner dive bar with an unexpectedly good kitchen. Grab a booth with some friends on a Saturday after get a few cheap beers and some beer battered catfish fingers, and watch the world go by out the bay view windows overlooking Houston street.

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