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.

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Home Sweet Home

131 Chrystie St · btwn Broome & Delancey St
Chinatown, Manhattan

In 2026

Still pouring

Checked October 16, 2026.

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Overview

This unmarked bar with a garage sale design ethic is remincent of the LES that existed ten years ago. A grungy bar for the unselfconsciously hip.

History

Home sweet basement on Chrystie Street

In the spring of 2006, a new bar called Home Sweet Home was slated to open in May at 131 Chrystie Street, below a retail and art space1. By December the Village Voice found a cozy three-month-old bar, underground, with no sign and a secretive air2. Three women owned it2.

When we listed it, we called it an unmarked bar with a garage-sale design ethic, a grungy bar for the unselfconsciously hip that recalled the Lower East Side of ten years before.

By 2019 the business ran as Home Sweet Home in the basement and Fig 19 on the ground floor3. It's still at 131 Chrystie Street, where an event was listed for 10pm on Friday, June 26, 20264, 5.

Sources

  1. ny.eater.com
  2. villagevoice.com
  3. nyc.gov
  4. nooklyn.com
  5. nothingradio.com

Researched October 2026.

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