2nd Ave-Houston St
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The 50 nearest of the 281 bars within half a mile of 2nd Ave-Houston St, as New York on Tap listed them around 2008.
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25 E. 1st St. · under 0.1 mi
Closed; now TD Bank
The diviest of the E. Village dives, and that's a pretty low bar to slide under.
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Cozy CafePick
43 E. 1st St. · under 0.1 mi
Still pouring
The low key basement lounge feels more like the kind of Morrocan café you might actually stumble into in the South of France rather than the NYC idealized creation of one. There's only bottled beer, the food is just passable, and the average age of the clientel is what you'd expect in a country with no drinking age.
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27 2nd Ave. · 0.1 mi
No license found in 2026
One of the most popular Karaoke haunts in the East Village. There's a big boxy room up front and several private rooms you can rent by the hour in the back. Big groups of girls and smaller groups of gay men (from Urge and The Cock next door) flock to have a crack at the 30,000 song playlist.
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42 E. 1st St. · 0.1 mi
Closed
The upstairs may look like it's been ripped from a Pottery Barn catalog, but downstairs their's a cavernous lounge replete with disco ball, and a pool room. If it sounds schizophrenic that's because it is.
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33 2nd Ave. · 0.1 mi
Closed
Plush furniture, a cool bi-level bar aimed at enhancing site lines, and a stage full of Go-Go boys 5 nights a week. How wrong can you go?
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13 E. 1st St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Baar Baar
The homogenity craving residents of the Avalon Chrystie building finally have a wine bar to call their own. Plasma TVs, track lighting, and high top tables create an atmosphere as reassuringly generic as a Starbucks Coffee.
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145 E. Houston St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Fools Gold NYC
Minimal white on white décor attracts a crowd every bit as interesting.
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31 2nd Ave. · 0.1 mi
Closed
A succession of straight bars (Ice Bar, Patio) have tried and failed to make a home here. Now it's finally gay as the day with the aim of providing an upscale alternative to its next door neighbors The Urge and The Cock.
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29 2nd Ave. · 0.1 mi
Moved to 93 Second Ave.
A gay bar so simultaneously friendly and edgy that it has become an East Village institution.
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249 Eldridge St. · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Rumpus Room
A low attitude, zero pretense bar where people come to dance, and where the DJs do everything humanly possible to help them do it. Sapphire Lounge is a true {cringe} gem.
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247 Eldridge St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now San Antonios
A shoebox sized douchebag sink carefully designed to absorb the star-fuckers, B-listers, and iBankers from the good bars in the neighborhood and relieve them of their money and dignity. Find the only book store with a bouncer and you're there.
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SatskoPick
245 Eldridge St · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Bar Goto
This Japanese restaurant and bar is your go to place for sake bombs. Except on Mondays when it's closed that is.
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235 Eldridge St. · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Moneygoround
Kickin DJs pack the joint with a hip-hop craving, primarily asian crowd. There's usually a cover on weekends.
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157 E Houston St. · 0.1 mi
No license found in 2026
A festive atmosphere and Latin street food perfect for following up a night of drinking. Order a literal fishbowl of sangria to share with your friends, or pick up a cocktail in a thimble sized ice filled glass.
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17 Stanton St. · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Bonnie Vee
Formerly the Villedge Publick House, this pallatable sports bar has a decent beer selection, reasonable prices and a useful without being overbearing three plasma TVs.
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64 E 1st St · 0.1 mi
Closed
A 2,000 square foot West African supper club with a retractable roof in the most unlikely of locations.
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159 E. Houston St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Two Doors Down
A rock and blues bar in the former Martignetti Liquors space owned by singer, songwriter, and TV cameo expert Gavin DeGraw.
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9 Stanton St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Forsythia
Popular Italian restaurant and wine bar. The bottles are quite reasonably priced.
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304 Bowery · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
It's hard to get excited about an Irish pub that serves up Budweiser's Bare Knuckle Stout in leu of Guinness.
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308 Bowery · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
Not just a venue for readings this is a venue for poets. Coffee, sandwiches, WiFi, and perhaps most importantly a bar, create a space to unwind when writers block sets in.
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191 Chrystie St. · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Outer Heaven
$15 cocktails on the Lower East Side. We'll pass thanks.
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310 Bowery · 0.1 mi
Closed; now 310 Bowery Bar
A beer, shots, and bottle service joint with a convenient location near Houston Street for those driving in from Long Island and New Jersey.
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161 E. Houston St. · 0.1 mi
No license found in 2026
Corner restaurant and wine bar has a lively scene and frequent live music.
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The Anyway CafeRestaurant
34 E. 2nd St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Salter House
This simple Russian cafe boasts inexpensive but luxurious food and dispenses carafes of flavored vodka that go down perhaps too easy.
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288 Elizabeth St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
Tall ceilings, a long bar with plenty of stools and a relaxed low key crowd make for a great place to drop in for a drink or 10.
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13 First Ave. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Superbueno
A low key latin restaurant and bar where you can relax at a table before or after the dinner rush and enjoy a bottle or three of reasonably priced wine, and then stop by the next morning to nurse your hangover with a mimosa and huevos frittas.
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15 1st Ave. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
Claim a window seat at this relaxed neighborhood bar and grab your friends for a drink as they walk home after work from the F train. On Thursdays and Saturdays the scene is turned upside down and the place becomes an improbably meatmarket as the hip-hop DJs take over.
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FreemansRestaurant
191 Chrystie St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
This restaurant and bar at the end of Freeman's alley serves expertly crafted cocktails under the watchful gaze of countless wall-mounted animals. Like the mise-en-scène from a Wes Anderson movie, it's so self-conciously unhip that it's the hottest thing going.
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324 Bowery · 0.1 mi
Closed; now Shifka
A loud and garish Cuban restaurant with food just shy of mediocre. During happy hour drinks and tapas are both two for one.
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189 Chrystie St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
There is no door more exclusive and no shows more outrageous than the ones at this intimate vintage theatre.
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188 Allen Street · 0.1 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Dialogue NYC / Subtext NYC
Sure, this wine bar from the owner of the VIP strip club runs a little short on atmosphere, but it makes up for it with short skirted, long legged waitresses. And it's hard not to love a wine bar with a forty foot long homage to Diego Maradona on its facade.
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265 Elizabeth St. · 0.1 mi
Closed; now The Musket Room
A black leather and white marble martini bar and restaurant. On summer evenings the back garden is the real draw.
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One and OnePick
76 E. 1st St. · 0.1 mi
Still pouring
There are a dozen or more variations of this place further uptown, but who would expect to find this place at the crossroads of the E. Village and LES.
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13 1st Ave. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
Tiny French restaurant and bar draws in neigborhood crowds with its top notch filet mignon and bouillabaisse.
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VonPick
3 Bleecker St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
A candle lit wine bar with plenty of room for standing, plentry of beer drinkers, and plenty of village singles looking for action.
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SutraPick
16 1st Ave. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Lydia's
Sexy candle lit lounge with a bar area upstairs and DJ space below. On weekends it can get so crowded you'll want to step outside for air.
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327 Bowery · 0.2 mi
Same bar, now Bowery Palace
A minimal, dark, clubby DJ den in the former Remote Lounge space.
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76 E. 1st St. · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: One And One
Below the generic Irish pub One and One is this generic, but popular dance space.
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11 Bleecker St. · 0.2 mi
Closed
This fresh and healthy Italian restaurant and wine bar seves a variety of organic and biodynamic wines by the bottle or (surprise) the quartino.
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Lucky Cheng'sPickRestaurant
24 1st Ave. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Bungalow
Absolutely fabulous, cross-dressing-tacular restaurant where the price of admission is a $22 utterly mediocre entree.
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29 E. 3rd St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
A late night rock and roll joint where the beer only comes in cans (plucked from ice water) and bottle service options consist of only a half bottle of whiskey with no mixers and some ice if you insist.
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61 2nd Ave. · 0.2 mi
Closed; now Bar Monto
Solid Irish pub. Never too crowded, rarely empty - a good place for conversing with friends over an excellent pint of Guinness.
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41 1st Ave. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
With over 150 beers, 130 scotches, and 60 tequilas you might be surprised to discover that the hardest part of placing an order isn't choosing the right drink, but finding a bartender who isn't too busy ignoring you to take your order.
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217 Bowery · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Maison Nur
Small, dimly lit Morrocan themed bar packs on weekend. Watch the 20% gratuity on your tab and additional tip line.
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89 E. 2nd St. · 0.2 mi
A different business is licensed at this address: Shinzo Omakase
There's a bed in the window at this Egyptian hookah bar. Take it over with four or five friends and sample on the 45 tobaccos they have on hand.
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335 Bowery · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
Carved wood panels, persian rugs, candelabras and a sandstone fireplace all collaborate to create a regal Victorian atmosphere. Too bad this bar's technically for hotel guests only.
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65 2nd Ave. · 0.2 mi
Closed
Attractive contemporary wine bar makes for a great spot to people watch or grab an after dinner drink with a date.
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218 Bowery · 0.2 mi
Closed
Enormous frat bar, $6 pints, top 40 hip-hop, backwards baseball caps, polo shirts, shrieking girls roaming in packs. Sounds like a good time to you? Go there. And please stay the night.
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JadisPick
42 Rivington St. · 0.2 mi
Still pouring
A beautiful rustic wine bar frequently all but ruined by obscenely loud music that's so bad, and ill-befitting that it succesfully kills the ambience. Sadly this alone is probably responsible for an older post-frat crowd sharing a common disdain for sophistication.