Change has come to Bleecker Street!  Located at 157 Greenwich Street (in the old Kenny’s Castaways location), Carroll Place is a gastropub/wine bar/beer bar.  Next door, at 155 Greenwich Street, the Back Fence has closed for business as well.  We wonder what type of spot will open there.  We digress.  With numerous wines available by the glass/bottle, Carroll Place is a solid spot for the Greenwich Village NYC wine bar crawl.  The fare leans toward Italian and Carroll Place has an open kitchen with a pizza oven.  Along with a friendly staff and a decent tap beer selection, we look forward to returning to Carroll Place on a future NYC pub crawl.

Located at 328 West 45^th Street in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, Beer Culture is another beer store / bar.  Though, based on layout, we would call it more of a bar than a store, as the bar area dominates.  Beer Culture’s store section offers sizeable coolers in the back of the space, but most if the spot is taken up by the bar area. Twelve taps, hundreds of bottled beers along with a limited selection of hard alcohol.  A nice addition to the Hell’s Kitchen NYC craft beer bar crawl!

Located at 303 east 85^th Street, Bondurants is another new addition to the NYC UES craft-beer pub crawl.  Like its neighbor Five Mile Stone, Bondurants offers 24 quality draught beers from around the U.S.  Bondurants also offers an extensive bourbon and handcrafted cocktail selection.  If you’re lucky, you can snag some seats by the windows for some prime people watching along 85^th Street.  Bondurants has a bit of a rustic vibe to it.  We look forward to returning here on our next bar crawl through the area.

A bi-level spot, located at the northeast corner of 85^th and 2^nd Avenue in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Five Mile Stone is a solid addition to the NYC UES craft-beer bar crawl.  Opened in early March, 2014, Five Mile Stone offers 24 quality tap beers from across the U.S. (along with a few from overseas) as well as a dozen wines by the glass and another dozen or so by the bottle.  Happy hour specials include $5 draught beers.  With bars on both levels, Five Mile Stone offers high-top seating for parties of two and four.  The downstairs bar is semi-circle shaped (as is the 24-tap beer system).  We look forward to returning here the next time we are pub crawling in this section of NYC.