Bars near the Statue of Liberty

The Dead Rabbit

• Rated as: 3/5
• Price band: 2/4

At this time-capsule FiDi nook, you can drink like a boss—Boss Tweed, that is. In a redbrick landmark, Belfast bar vets Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry (of Northern Ireland’s acclaimed Merchant Hotel) have conjured up a rough-and-tumble 19th-century tavern. And it’s just the kind of saloon that the

The Iron Horse

• Rated as: 3/5
• Price band: 1/4

Taking cues from Coyote Ugly, this FiDi saloon makes its bartenders the main event. The all-female cast of boozeslingers is known to perform feats of fire-blowing and hula-hooping while serving cheap swill like $2 Rolling Rocks—one of them may even pull you up on to the bar for a dance. A full menu

Bar Seven Five

• Price band: 2/4

The gimmick at this glam hotel drinkery is the absence of the bar itself. In place of the traditional format, mixologists man glossy black stations, and patrons are free to mingle among them. The cocktails, like the Perfect Pearl Manhattan (bourbon, sweet and dry vermouth, and Lagavulin Scotch),

The best new beer bars

A new crop of watering holes join the ranks of NYC's finest suds haunts. Earl's Beer and CheeseIn a bar scene where even your corner dive boasts more than a dozen taps, Earl's makes do with only four. Still, the pint-size uptown drinkery is the type of spot that instantly makes you want to be a

Bin No. 220

• Price band: 2/4

This sleek Italian-style wine bar, where banker types devour cured meats, cheeses and olive oil, offers refuge from the South Street Seaport tourist scene. Located on historic Front Street, this TONY Eat Out Award winner boasts cast-iron columns, a polished walnut bar and a nifty metal wine rack

Demi Monde

Cocktail hotshots David Kaplan and Alex Day—respectively co-owner and former bartender of the exemplary Death & Company—transport enlightened tippling to a larger, louder stage with this 120-seat subterranean bar and New American eatery. Ditching the hushed tones and slo-mo stirring of Death &

Demi Monde's cocktails revealed

• Price band: 3/4

Death & Company vets bring artisanal boozing to the Financial District Cocktail hotshots David Kaplan and Alex Day—respectively co-owner and former bartender of the exemplary Death & Company—transport enlightened tippling to a larger, louder stage with the much-anticipated Demi Monde, a 120-seat

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