2024 the best bars in new york review
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"Ben Westhoff has compiled an absolutely splendid list of NYC miracles...These spots are all perfect places to party and to party hard."--Andrew W.K.
"Every pubcrawler in the NYC Metro area should be grateful for Ben Westhoff's New York City's Best Dive Bars."--Geoffrey Bartholomew, longtime McSorley's barman and author of "The McSorley Poems."
Sponsored by Village Voice, New York's Best Dive Bars takes you on a tour of the dingiest, awesomest watering holes in the five boroughs (and Jersey City and Hoboken), from downtown relics to surreal joints in Queens and Staten Island where time seems to stop. You'll read wild, firsthand accounts of English-optional ethnic dives, bikini bars, spots that belong on the National Register of Historic Places, and lawless hellholes where cops and firefighters duke it out. You'll learn where to get free grub and cheap drinks, and where you can go to avoid the hipsters. Whether you're looking to live dangerously or simply get plastered on a budget, New York's Best Dive Bars is your guide to both the classic pubs and those joints so off-the-beaten-path joints that you'll need a team of sherpas to find your way back.
Publisher : Gamble Guides; Second edition (October 19, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN-10 : 1935439197
ISBN-13 : 978-1935439196
Item Weight : 5.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
Reviewer: JJLauro
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Dive bars I have been to and some I havenât gotten around to yet!
Review: Great read for those who are obsessed with the vanishing culture of old New York City! Reminds me of some great memories that I canât quite remember!
Reviewer: ger
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Going to New York
Review: I love to go to New York and try to see as many different things and parts of the city. I saw this book in the store and decided to purchase it through Amazon. It was great with discriptions and photos. I was not disapointed.
Reviewer: rjames
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Take us into the neighborhoods
Review: Ben takes us out of the retail and office meccas and into the neighborhoods where we find all the people and places that make New York City what it is. In all the vignettes, I hear overtones of Louis-Ferdinand Celine in the run-down Paris passages. I hear an updated Jack Kerouac walking into the diviest joints.I would love to see a DVD accompaniment that shows all the characters that inhabit the joints--Mike at the Blue and Gold, Margie at Blarney Cove, and Albert chatting up Anna at the Holland Bar. Maybe that's the next edition, but for now, we have a wonderful addition to finding the ins and outs of New York City for the insider or the outsider.
Reviewer: RossK
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Takes You There
Review: I bought this as guide to louche watering holes around NYC but soon found myself reading the pithy essays for entertainment - quite a feat for a guide book. With humor to spare, each entry sets the scene and really tells you what to expect when you're out looking for fun/fights/cheap thrills around NYC's seedier underbelly. The author highlights a bunch of lesser-known but still classic spots in Queens, Brooklyn and even Staten Island (doesn't a place called Beer Goggles make you want to jump on that ferry?) in addition to Manhattan. Highly recommended.
Reviewer: Jelsie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Spot on
Review: As a new(ish) transplant to the NY area, I picked up a copy of Ben Westoff's book on NYC's best dive bars. I highly recommend it if you are looking for a place in Manhattan or the outer boroughs to wet your whistle and not blow the bank. So far I've gone to about a dozen of the bars in the book, and his descriptions have been right on. Even if you don't drink, Westoff's witty anecdotes about the characters he stumbles upon during his drinking and diving journey are worth the read.
Reviewer: Thomas
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: not a good read
Review: Figured since I bought Wendy Mitchell's version - New York City's Best Dive bars: Drinking and Diving in the 5 boroughs - I would follow it up with this book.That was a mistake. It's seems to me to be basically the same book, only I don't like the writing or the author's snotty comments and political commentary. If you are thinking about getting this, get Wendy's version instead. Despite it being 8 years older, it seems to have most of the same bars mentioned and, if nothing else, the writing is much more enjoyable.