23rd St-8th Ave
CE
The 50 nearest of the 117 bars within half a mile of 23rd St-8th Ave, as New York on Tap listed them around 2008.
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232 8th Ave. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Spicy Moon Chelsea
Four words: drag queen puppet bingo. Fridays 7:30-10:30pm.
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232 8th Ave. · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Spicy Moon
Four words: drag queen puppet bingo. Fridays 7:30-10:30pm.
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275 W. 22nd St. · 0.1 mi
Closed
Comfy, mellow gay bar without the cruise or die atmosphere. You might even be able to bring your straight friends here.
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360 W. 23rd St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
Sparse low key pub is an easy walk down 23rd from Chelsea Piers and good place to take over with friends.
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212 8th Ave. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Heavenly Markets & Deli
Landmark NYC leather bar is surprisingly friendly and low key.
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222 W. 23rd St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Teruko
Small, dark lounge under the Chelsea Hotel with an often celebrity populated VIP room.
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206 W. 23rd St · 0.2 mi
Licensed here under the same name
Popular sports bar most notable for a location near Madison Square Garden.
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191 7th Ave. · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Kei
The focus here is on Southern Italian wines. They've got a pricey piece of kit called a cruvinet which keeps open bottles fresh and enables a wine list with over 40 bottles by the glass.
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156 7th Ave · 0.2 mi
Closed
A busy bar attached to an attractive restaurant draws a crowd of good looking couples gay and straight. In keeping with local custom the music is Madonna and Britney heavy and a pint of Guinness will run you $7.
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230 W. 19th St. · 0.2 mi
No license found in 2026
The product of late night TV spots all over Long Island and New Jersey.
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161 W. 23rd St · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Petite Disco
There's a brand new next big thing every couple months in the space that was formerly Release which was formerly Suede. Door's gimmic is a video camera and a buzzer instead of a door person.
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152 7th Ave. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
A traditional working man's bar for shots, pints and sports with a male to female ration that tops most gay bars in the area.
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West 25th Lounge (Four Points Hotel)
160 W. 25th St. · 0.3 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: The Rose; FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON
A good bar for watching TV and drinking a Bud, while rehashing the latest from your business conference and distractedly peruse the back pages of the Village Voice.
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Tillman'sPick
165 W. 26th St · 0.3 mi
Closed; now Sid Gold's Request Room
Harlem in the 70's re-envisioned in this Chelsea lounge. Surprisingly it works rather well.
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372 8th Ave. · 0.3 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: The Lost & Found
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138 W. 25th St. · 0.3 mi
Closed; now Smithfield Hall
Named for a type of wine made from a single variety of grape, this white on white lounge offers 75 different wines by the glass and food and desserts good enough to earn them a spot in the Conde Nast Traveler's list of the 95 most exciting new restaurants in the world.
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332 9th Ave · 0.3 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: The Celly Bar & Grill
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112 7th Ave. · 0.3 mi
Closed
This Manhattan chain of restaurant/bars has been successful for good reason - consistency. The service, the food, even the crowd is almost always slightly better than just good enough. There's a lot to be said for a sure thing.
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Hiro Ballroom (Maritime Hotel)
371 W. 16th St. · 0.4 mi
Closed; now Tao Downtown
Giant, ultra-extravagent Japanese themed ballroom hosts events ranging from "secret" rock concerts to black tie galas.
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88 9th Ave. · 0.4 mi
Closed; now Tao Downtown
An indoor / outdoor trattoria that turns into a velvet rope scene to be seen on summer weekends. On other occassions it's a perfectly relaxed albeit somewhat pricey spot to enjoy some goat cheese pizza with the smoking hot European tourists staying at the hotel.
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757 6th Ave. · 0.4 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Storehouse
Decent lunch spot by day morphs into a crappy nightclub by night. The heaving crowd united by a shared lack of taste downs $10 cocktails and boogies to the hot grooves of Justin Timberlake.