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.

Nightingale Lounge

213 2nd Ave. · at 13th St.
East Village, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Jackdaw

Later here: Durden (licensed 2017–19).

Checked October 25, 2026.

Overview

Outfitted in the style of an ultra-trendy lounge in, say, Boise Idaho, this former dive bar now boasts a velvet rope and electronic shot measures. On weekends, hip-hop DJs draw a primarily Asian crowd.

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