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Whether you're looking for a comfy spot to read, a good place to write, or somewhere to wax philosophical about the dueling merits of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, New York City has some of the best literary bars in the world. You may even end up having a pint next to a published author (and you'll definitely be within thirty feet of forty aspiring authors).
Venerable Prospect Heights watering hole Freddy's spent an impressive eighty years at its old digs on Dean Street, serving at times as a sort of policeman's lounge for a good chunk of it, until their well-publicized battle with Bruce Ratner, imminent domain, and the hulking mass ...
627 5th AveIn the decades since it opened in 1993, KGB has become something of a New York literary institution. Writers hooked up in the publishing world read here with pleasure and without pay to an adoring public over drinks almost every Sunday evening (fiction), Monday evening (poetry), ...
85 East 4th Street (bet. 2nd and Bowery)Union Hall is a 5,000 square foot bar, restaurant and venue for live music and comedy in the heart of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Painstakingly converted from a warehouse, it offers cozy firesides, a stately library, two indoor bocce courts, outdoor garden seating, and a downstairs bar...
702 Union Street (at Fifth Ave.)British pub meets American grub at this beloved institution. Possibly the best selection of beers on tap anywhere in the area. There's more estrogen-meets-testosterone in the air here than anywhere else outside of clubland in far-west Chelsea. What's more, it's just a hop away fr...
505 West 23rd Street (bet. 10th & 11th Aves.)The place that writer O. Henry made famous, Pete's is proud to remind tourists and New Yorkers alike that Pete's first opened its doors in 1864 and has remained open continuously since then. Both an official historical landmark and NYC's longest continuously operating bar and res...
129 East 18th Street (Irving Pl.)One of Williamsburg’s brighter spots, Pete’s Candy Store is always busy. The backroom offers local countryish music and has weekly events like the Quizz-Off, a trivia competition. Get one of the few tables early and enjoy.
709 Lorimer StVastly popular for over 100 years, dead poet Dylan Thomas drank his last here, then staggered off and died the next morning. Perhaps that explains why the White Horse Tavern remains eternally hip with the college crowds, who seek it out for enormous quantities of beer and spirits...
567 Hudson Street (West 11th Street)One of the few New York bars that can honestly claim it used to be a speakeasy—and not just in the same building as one, under a different name, this bar has been around since 1926, right up until a chimney collapse shuttered it in 2012. It has been under renovations ever since, ...
86 Bedford Street (near Barrow)Serving as Greenwich Village neighborhood hangout since the 1950s. Has served luminaries such Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan, as well providing a haven for the neighborhood sports fans who want the communal experience, or an escape from home. The place for Greenbay Packers fanatics -...
59 Christopher St