Those 34 bars in 2026
- 6
- still there
- 16
- replaced
- 12
- gone
Most common features
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322 2nd ave
No license found in 2026
A simple and straight forward bar. What it's missing in personality and warmth it makes up for with a rare combination of cleanliness and cheap drinks. Look for the small brass plaque and head downstairs to the basement.
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126 E. 17th St.
Still pouring
It's tiny and often crowded, but the light makes the crowd look as delicious as the tapas, and the wine list is both thoughtful and reasonable.
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56 Irving Pl.
Closed; now The Inn at Irving Place
A fire place in the winter and a garden for the summer make for an ideal year around spot for a quiet martini with friends, rich friends.
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Duke'sRestaurant
99 E. 19th St.
Closed
The owner's of City Crab introduce Grammercy to the concept of low key quality by serving up delicious, inexpensive Southern food.
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Jade Bar (Grammercy Park Hotel)
2 Lexington Ave
No license found in 2026
Attractive upscale hotel bar serves $15 cocktails to a crowd which is at least for now mostly hotel guests.
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36 E. 20th St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Passerine
This sexy lounge lies just below the Greek restaurant Parea. A selection of ouzos, tapas, and Greek and Turkish beers ensures the large banquettes remain full of moneyed Mediterraneans.
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393 2nd Ave.
A different business is licensed at this address: Clara's Gramercy
A perfectly average Grammercy dive boasting a rather extraordinary drink special. Wednesday night $10 buys you all you can drink from any of 16 taps.
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30 E. 20th St.
A different business is licensed at this address: By Antidote
If your first name is on the black board you're drinking for free all night long.
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45 E. 18th St.
Still pouring
Since 1892 this former speakeasy just north of Union Square has been pitching pints to punters of all stripes. Nightly a crowd spanning generations and socioenomics fills the booths and saddles up to the 50 foot mahogany bar.
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237 3rd Ave.
Still pouring
This cozy Irish bar has Imperial (20oz) pints, 16 beers on tap, two pool tables, a dart board, and an Erotic Photo Hunt Game. Really what more could you need?
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Pete's TavernPick
129 E. 18th St.
Still pouring
A close second to McSorleys Ale House for title of oldest bar in NYC. Pete's Tavern is a surprisingly low key place for a quality pint, although you may wish to stear clear of the food.
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Roof Club (Grammercy Park Hotel)
2 Lexington Ave.
Closed
This beautiful, elegant space on the roof of the Grammercy Park Hotel feels more like a home in architectural digest than a hotel bar. Hotel guests only.
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35 E. 21st St.
Closed; now Cosme
The gimmic is that you can reserve one of nine rooms for for $350-$800. Which begs the question why not just get a real hotel room instead seeing as the club, with it's discreet groups of corporate types, is far less interesting than any of the W Hotel's bars.
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The Rose Bar (Grammercy Park Hotel)
2 Lexington Ave
Closed
From celebrity rolodex, to Page Six, to Citysearch's 10 best list, to the gutter. With a roaring fireplace and vaulted ceilings the Rose Bar feels chic and sophisticatated, unfortunately its overblown publicity has ensured very few of its patrons are.
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192 3rd Ave.
Closed; now Triona's On Third
When the game's on it's as good as any place to watch it. When the game's not on it's as good as any place to watch a room full of helmuts swarm a couple of Jersey girls like flys on shit.
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35 E. 21st St.
Closed; now Cosme
The women tend to slightly more "real" than your average strip club, and thus infinitely more interesting.
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204 Park Ave. S.
No license found in 2026
An attractive suited after work crowd mingles aggresively all the while protecting their martini's from one another's jostling. The resultings late night scene is one of amorous PDAs and a Grey Goose slicked floor.
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106 E. 19th St.
A different business is licensed at this address: Midnight Blue
The bar formerly known as Tracy Js has karaoke and little else to recommend it (if in fact karaoke is a reason to recommend it as all).
Already closed by 2009
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The Accompanied Library in the National Arts ClubPickClosed by 2009
15 Gramercy Park S., Ste 6C
Closed; now The National Arts Club
Members only club. Evicted from the National Gallery in March 2007.