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Only one more month of bar crawling in 2012

Hard to believe that today is the last day of November. The year 2012 has flown by, seemingly, just like many other recent years. NYC has seen some great new bars open up this year, particularly some additions to the Hell’s Kitchen Beer Bar Crawl, including Beer Authority at 300 West 40th Street and New York Beer Company at 321 West 44th Street. If you enjoy quality beer, you need to visit these two spots. Here’s hoping a few more quality beer spots open for business in the month of December.

New bars we need to visit

Several new spots have either just opened for business or are about to open.  We look forward to bar hopping/pub crawling to these new spots.  Two in Manhattan’s Lower East Side have caught our attention: Subject at 188 Suffolk and Todd’s Mill at 162 Orchard.  Another spot, Dolan’s, at 533 Ninth Avenue in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen wasn’t on any of our usual sources; we just passed by it the other day.  That’s our favorite way of learning about recently-opened establishments!  As always, we’ll provide brief reviews of these (and other) spots in the coming days and weeks.  Stay tuned.

The status of some South Street Seaport bars two weeks after Sandy

We took a short walk through the area recently.  In short, many of the bars remain closed.  Only Jeremy’s Ale House and Meade’s were open for business at the time of our brief tour.  Everything else we passed by was not open, including Heartland Brewery, Fresh Salt, Stella, Keg 229, Bin 220, Nelson Blue and the Paris Cafe.  If you know a more detailed status of any of these bars, please drop us a comment or email.  We hope every single establishment can re-open.  We’ve enjoyed all of them on several occasions.  Below are a few photos from our tour.

Fresh Salt was undergoing some work inside
Heartland Brewery's entrance was partially boarded up

 

Jeremy's was open for business. . .
. . . as was Meade's

 

In a window of Stella

 

The Paris Cafe, completely boarded up.

Where to pub crawl this weekend?

After being out of town one weekend and enduring impact of Hurricane Sandy the next, we are eager to get back to bar hopping around the five boroughs!  Where to pub crawl this weekend?  We still have several new establishments to check out, especially some Lower Manhattan spots, such as Cocktail Bodega in LES and Pouring Ribbons in the East Village.  We hope these spots were not adversely impacted by Sandy.  It’s also about time to visit Greenpoint/Williamsburg again.