On this first day of Major League Baseball’s regular season, our NYC Bar of the Day: Standings, located at 43 East 7th Street in Manhattan’s East Village.

Our NYC Bar of the Day: Spring Lounge, located at 48 Spring Street in Manhattan’s Little Italy.

Here’s hoping we can return to NYC pub crawls on this day in 2022.

While NYC pub crawls are still a ways off, here’s hoping that we begin some semblance of a return to normalcy in the weeks ahead.

Our NYC Bar of the Day: Fraunces Tavern, located at 54 Pearl Street in Manhattan’s Financial District.

In pre-COVID days, we would suggest Bar Veloce, located at 175 Second Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village. However, we gather that Bar Veloce is temporarily closed. We hope Bar Veloce reopens soon.

Here’s hoping for a better year ahead with a return to normalcy (and NYC pub crawling) at some point in 2021.

Before we say farewell (or is it good riddance?) to 2020, we’d like to note our favorite new Manhattan bar opening of the year: Torch & Crown Brewing Company, located at 6 Vandam Street in West Soho.  We look forward to returning to Torch & Crown numerous times in 2021 and beyond.

December 5, 2020 marks the 87th anniversary of the end of U.S. Prohibition. On this date in 1933, Utah became the 36th U.S. state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution (achieving the required 75% of states to approve the amendment). This ratification overturned the 18th Amendment, which outlawed alcohol in the United States. So, how will you be marking the anniversary today? We wish a pub crawl were in the offing; maybe this time next year.