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
Firefly, photographed for New York on Tap
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Firefly

54 Spring St · btwn Lafayette & Mulberry St
NoLita, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Genkiya Mart

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

A sports bar plain and simple. If there's a good game on the wall to wall projection screens there are few better places in the neighborhood to watch it. But failing that there's little to recommend.

History

From projection screens to creative salad

When we listed it, Firefly was a sports bar, plain and simple: few places in the neighborhood beat its wall-to-wall projection screens for a good game, and failing a good game there was little to recommend. In March 2014 Eater reported that the "creative salad" chain Chop't had opened in the space once occupied by Firefly, which Eater remembered as a club/sports bar1. Genkiya Mart, a Japanese grocery and deli, is on Spring Street now2.

Sources

  1. ny.eater.com
  2. mitziemee.com

Researched October 2026.

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