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A member's-only club for the kind of folks who wear their elitism like a badge of honor, the Harvard Club occupies two adjacent lots on West 44th street, a peculiar, haphazardly-built structure designed in several stages by the eminent architectural firm McKim Mead, and White. First organized in... more

Now a lavish restaurant and event space, the original Bowery Savings Bank building is a neoclassical fortress with a Beaux-Arts interior, one of the few features of real permanence in the extremely transient neighborhoods – Chinatown, the Lower East Side – which lay claim to it. The building... more

A nightspot dedicated to the pursuit of irony as much as the opposite sex, Welcome to the Johnsons is a hipster haven among hipster havens on the Lower East Side. The bar is a meticulous mock-up of a seventies-style suburban rec room, complete with family photographs, worn chairs, pool table,... more

The oldest still-operating pub in New York City, McSorley's guards its Gotham legacy with fanatical diligence. McSorley's delicious ale (available in light or the bitter dark brew) is served in demitasse mugs, two at a time, along with several antique munchie options (a cheese plate, served with... more

An unimposing jazz venue that always satisfies, if it doesn’t always inspire. Once the favored stomping ground of trumpet god Charlie Parker, Arthur’s has managed to avoid the kind of nostalgia-peddling that has overrun so many legendary New York venues, and remains a modest entrée into the... more

One of many competing claims to be the oldest continually operating bar/saloon/restaurant in New York, Pete's Tavern (founded during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln) is a cozy, battered old antique, a serviceable Italian and American restaurant and a more than capable bar, one of only a few... more