New York on Tap 2008
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.

Sway

305 Spring St. · btwn Greenwich Ave. & Hudson St.
SoHo/Little Italy, Manhattan

In 2026

Same bar, now Paul's Casablanca

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

Hidden in the old McGovern's pub lies lies that rare club that manages to attract a crowd that's beautiful, moneyed, and oddly enough not the least bit boring.

History

Heaven knows it's Paul's now

In 2003 Paul Sevigny hosted his first Smiths and Morrissey night at Sway, a Moroccan-ornamented watering hole in the western stretch of SoHo, and it became a cult hit with the cool crowd1. When we listed it, we called it that rare club whose crowd was beautiful, moneyed and, oddly enough, not the least bit boring. Thirteen years later Sevigny and his partner Brian McPeck opened Paul's Casablanca in the very same space, keeping the Moroccan motifs1. It's open Wednesday through Sunday, ten at night to four in the morning, still at 305 Spring Street2.

Sources

  1. wmagazine.com
  2. paulscasablanca.com

Researched October 2026.

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