Today is September 17.  That means we have six month to go until St. Patrick’s Day; a very popular day for some NYC pub crawling!

Now that it’s September and most locals have returned from their summer vacations, this is the season for new restaurant and bar openings.  Among recently-opened or about-to-open pubs in Manhattan on our radar include the Financial District’s Clinton Hall (a craft-beer bar/beer hall), Chelsea’s American Whiskey (taking over the space that was The Parlour Midtown on West 30th Street), Lower East Side’s Fool’s Gold (another craft-beer focused bar in the former White Rabbit space) and The Winslow (a cocktail spot on East 14th Street).  We hope to visit all of these (and other) spots in the coming days and weeks.  As always, we’ll share with you our thoughts on these spots in forthcoming posts.

Because it marks the unofficial end of summer, Labor Day always brings a tinge of sadness to us at Pub Crawl NYC.  Summer in NYC offers numerous opportunities of beautiful weather for NYC pub crawls.  September is still a good weather month in NYC and, if lucky, October is can be as well.  But, those two months just aren’t quite the same as June, July and August.  Either way, we look forward to many more NYC bar crawls in the months ahead.  Happy Autumn!

View of the sunset during a recent NYC pub crawl through the South Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

We’ve spent a good portion of this summer exploring spots in Brooklyn and Queens and it’s been a great time.  So now, we figure we need to show Manhattan a little love.  Manhattan bars currently on our radar include Financial District’s Clinton Hall, Flatiron’s Flatiron Hall and East Village’s Maiden Lane.  We gather that the first two are beer halls.  Flatiron Hall is from the same folks behind Houston Hall.  Maiden Lane takes over the spot where Life Cafe, a great East Village brunch spot, used to be.  We are looking forward to visiting all three.

We spent a few recent afternoons in Queens; specifically in Long Island City, Astoria and Forest Hills.  Some bars we visited, among others, included Open Door LIC, Singlecut Beer Brewery in Astoria and The Flying Pig in Forest Hills.  All are worth visits and we’d look forward to returning to them.  Over in Brooklyn, we recently visited Lake Street in Greenpoint and Pine Box Rock Shop in Williamsburg.  Reviews of some of these spots forthcoming.

It was 225 years ago on this date that New York State ratified the United States Constitution, becoming the 11th state to join the Union.  It’s a great day to drink some New York State beer and eat some New York State food.  A great beer bar today would be Little Town NYC in Union Square, which focuses on local beer and food.  It’s also a great day for a NYC pub crawl!

We have been all over the five boroughs of NYC and have seen Long Island City’s Pepsi-Cola sign from afar.  But not until a recent NYC pub crawl that brought us to LIC had we ever been next to the famous landmark.