Live Punk

4 bars that New York on Tap listed under “Live Punk” around 2008, with what's licensed at each address in 2026.

Manhattan

• Arlene's Grocery

  95 Stanton St. · Lower East Side

  Still pouring

  The oldest and also the number one music venue on the Lower East Side. Covers tend to be cheap, the acts tend to be well above par, and people are there to have fun. There's even live band karaoke on Monday nights.

• The Delancey

  168 Delancey St. · Lower East Side

  Still pouring

  $7 bottle beers, velvet rope roof access, overrun by UES and BT posers. Whatever appeal this place once had has evaporated.

• Knitting FactoryPick

  74 Leonard St. · TriBeCa

  No license found in 2026

  Great place to see a show. And an all ages policy means this is the bar to take your underage niece/nephew to give them a taste of New York.

• Sullivan Hall

  214 Sullivan St. · Greenwich Village

  Closed; now The Dermatology Specialists - Greenwich Village

  400 capacity live music venue popular among NYU students.

Already closed by 2009

• CBGBClosed by 2009

  315 Bowery · NoHo

  Closed; now John Varvatos

  R.I.P.

• SiberiaPickClosed by 2009

  356 W. 40th St. · Hells Kitchen

  Moved to Turnstyle Underground Market, Columbus Circle

  An "in crowd" dive, that somehow manages to fend off pretense with strong measures of eccentricity and grime to form an oaisis of downtown cool in the 40s.