No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Swig

Formerly Waterloo Tavern

1629 2nd Ave. · btwn 84th & 85th
Upper East Side, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Ethyl's

Last licensed here under this name: 2013–15.

Checked October 18, 2026.

A prototypical Upper East Side bar. Reasonable, clean, attractive and vaguely soulless.

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