Music & Nightlife
Your guide to the best nightclubs, gay clubs, after-parties, live concerts, comedy clubs, DJs, dance parties, bands and music events in New York City
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Best NYC music & nightlife: Critics' picks
Cielo
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
You’d never guess from the Heidi Montag wanna-bes hanging out in the neighborhood that the attitude at this club is close to zero, at least once you get past the bouncers guarding the door. On the
- 18 Little W 12th St, between Ninth Ave and Washington St
Union Hall
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Upstairs in this bi-level bar, boozers chomp miniburgers and nip at microbrews like Sixpoint in the gentlemen’s-club–style anteroom (decorated with Soviet-era globes, paintings of fez-capped men,
- 702 Union St, between Fifth and Sixth Aves
Museum of the City of New York
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
RECOMMENDED: Museum of the City of New York Located at the northern end of Museum Mile, this institution contains a wealth of city history and includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, military
- 1220 Fifth Ave, between 103rd and 104th Sts
Berry Park
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
This bi-level behemoth beer hall has a 3,500-square-foot ground floor and a roof deck almost as large. Brooklyn boosters may be disappointed to find that the 15 taps are dedicated to imports (mostly
- 4 Berry St, at North 14th St
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