Looking west from the rooftop spot The Ledge, located at 321 Starr Street (at Cypress Avenue) on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn-Queens border.

Below is a photo of the tap selection at Svendale’s half-pint sized tasting room, located at 486 Court Street in Brooklyn.  The tap room offers 16 tap beers made at its farm brewery in Dutchess County, NY.  Not only is the beer tasty, we also found particularly notable the pour sizes typically come in four different offerings: 4oz, 8oz, 12oz and 16oz.  We don’t recall seeing such a variety of pour sizes in all of our NYC bar hopping experience.  We look forward to returning here.

Located at 213 Second Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village, Jackdaw is a recently-opened cocktail bar in the old Durden space (and Nightingale before Durden).  The space is evenly divided between the bar one side with mainly high-top table seating on the other side of the space.  The featured house cocktails number around ten and run $14 a piece, which is perhaps a hair cheaper than the going rate for artisanal cocktails for Manhattan in 2019.  The beer selection consists of ten mainly quality craft tap beers and another ten or so bottled/canned options.  The food menu is limited, think bar bites, flatbreads and cheese/charcuterie.  Jackdaw is a great spot for your next Second Avenue East Village NYC bar crawl.

Located at 174 8^th Avenue in Manhattan’s Chelsea, Jungle Bird is a recently-opened cocktail destination.  Jungle Bird offers its own house cocktails at $15 a piece, which, in our estimation, seems to be the going rate for artisanal cocktails in 2019.  Staff is friendly and the space is vibrant.  Jungle Bird opens at 3pm daily.  Include this spot on your next Chelsea NYC pub crawl.  You won’t be disappointed.