[Incorrigible]

I love McSorely's.

I celebrated my 21st birthday at McSorely's in 1986 with a bunch of high school friends.  After tolerating our semi-rowdiness long enough, sure enough, Brendan, stopped serving us and kicked us out!

Though they may have allowed women to enter in 1970, there wasn't a separate women's bathroom until the 90's!

I don't get there much at all now.  I've only been there once since the smoking ban in NYC.  I'm not a smoker but alas, this is one place where you might wish for the smell of tobacco in the air!

 

Just a wee little place.

 

Yes, those are turkey wishbones that are attracting all the dust on the lamp above your head in the front room.

 

Pot belly stove in the back room.

No, that's not a photoshop image.  That's a bartender with 10 light and 10 dark!

[Incorrigible]

Dead, something tells me you've spent some time at McSorely's!

[ken5050]

I lived in the Village for 4 years.. (NYU 64-68) and McSorley's was a favorite..back then, it was also a real dump....it lacked the cachet it's aquired the last 20 years or so....back then..the demands for letting females in were just starting to begin....the nascent "feminnazis" used to stand outside the bar ocasionally, and "flash" at the patrons inside..the idea being to tshow them what they were "missing"..which means that McSorley's may well havwe been the real birthplace of the "titty bar"

[dennisw]

Had a few beers there in the early 1970s

[ml/nj]

neither their ilk nor much else has changed

What a croc!

Here's two: Cigars and women.

ML/NJ

[familyofman]

A great pub! We took our youngest son there with some of his frat brothers to celebrate his 21st birthday. The beer is great and the ambiance is just as good.

The world would be a better place if every neighborhood had a pub like this.

[u-89]

Did you carve your initials in the table?

[dighton]

John Sloan, McSorley's Bar (1912).

[Remole]

I was there a few times in the late 80's. My first time, I had what my friend called the traditional initiation: cheese and onions on a cracker, with the hottest mustard in the world. I can still feel it in my sinuses. Great beer, great setting, great place. Too bad here in Ohio I can't get McSorley's in a bottle.

[nicollo]

McSorely's!!! I was so tempted to take my kids there on a visit to the City this summer. See, that's where your Dad... Dropped that idea. 1980s haunt for Nicollo. We'd get unsuspecting ladies to meet us there, then wait for them to have to take a leak. Classic NYC mens room, btw.

That's right: ten mugs in each hand. Slap 'em on the table. Man, I can smell the place now.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'll have to remember this place when I visit New York.

[brewer1516]

This place sounds great!
I'll be on my first trip to New York in May, and I'll be looking for exactly this kind of distraction.

To all: Any suggestions besides the usual tourist haunts? For what it's worth I'll be traveling with someone somewhat familiar with the city.

[evilC]

Ping

[Happygal]

Looks like a great place.

But the Guinness in that pic, looks vile.

[Jhensy]

AAAAUUUUGHHHHH...

[KantianBurke]

"Err ahh where's the ahhh address of this establishment?"

[Benrand]

"Light or dark?"

I with three friends spent about $300 there one afternoon. Good thing NYC has plenty of cabs.

[AppyPappy]

I sat at the table next to the stive. 8 of us drank 100 beers in about two hours. They tossed us.

Rumor is that McSorley's beer is sold in the bottle as "Matt's".

[Nexus]

I've been once. Ordered a beer and waited. After about five minutes, I got yelled at and almost kicked out for not having a beer! Barely acknowledged my explaination (I ordered one!). Granted, it was a packed and crazy night, as I imagine all of them there are. Very cool place. I wish we had somewhere like that in Pittsburgh.

[nutmeg]

ping!

Also, see brewer1516's post in 26. Have any suggestions?

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[nutmeg]

There are lots of great Irish pubs all over NYC, but the one place where we always meet a big crowd of (usually young) people actually from Ireland - whether living and working in NYC temporarily, permanently or on holiday in NYC for a few days - is "Fitzers" Bar in the Fitzpatrick Manhattan Hotel - 687 Lexington Ave., between 56th and 57th Streets. We've rarely run into an American tourist there (we've mostly been to this bar on week nights, not so much on weekends).

We were at Fitzers again last night, and had a fantastic conversation with some young Irish guys who flew over from Dublin, and are in town for a few days. The place was full of young Irish people, there for a 'happy hour' after work. I think "zelig" and I were the only two in the place without an Irish accent!