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Great Lakes

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284 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
at 1st St. See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
718-499-3710 Send to Phone

Reader Rating:
6.5 out of 10

2 Reviews | Write a Review
Scene: Live Music, Neighborhood Bar

Photo by Kate Attardo

Map Rate & Review

Hours

Daily, 6pm-4am

Happy Hour

Daily, 6pm-8pm; $1 off well drinks and beer

Nearby Subway Stops

F, M, R at Fourth Ave.-9th St.

Payment Methods

American Express, MasterCard, Visa

Profile

A spacious bar filled with thrift-store furniture where Park Slopers go to discuss postpunk music, poetry, Iraq, poetry in Iraq, etc.--and where "everyone looks like someone you went to college with," says one patron. Justly celebrated for its excellent jukebox (the owners also helm Boat on Smith Street, the other great jukebox bar in this neck of Brooklyn).

Reader Ratings

6.5

"Mixed Reviews"
Average Reader Rating
on a Scale of 10

Cheap beer, great Jukebox and cool bartenders

serindav from 11215 | Posted on 11/1/07

Overall Reader Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)

This has been a local favorite of mine for years. Its a simple dive bar. The seats are old, the floor is dirty and the bartenders dont take crap from patrons with inflated senses of entitlement. Treat them right and you...Read More

Worse than usual

Mark1973 from 11211 | Posted on 8/18/07

Overall Reader Rating: 3 (Not Recommended)

An awful bartender ruins everything. This place seems to have a full stock of them (eventhough the old favs seem to stand by and observe). Stuck-up, nuevo Brooklyn dive. No irony, just jerks. These are what, as a neighborhood, I...Read More