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Tempest Bar

407 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10001
nr. 30th St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-643-1502 Send to Phone

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  • Scene: After Work, College Bar, Game Nights, Singles Scene, Sports Bar

Hours

Daily, 11am-4am

Nearby Subway Stops

A, C, E at 34th St.-Penn Station; 1 at 28th St.

Payment Methods

American Express, MasterCard, Visa

Profile

Packed to the brim with beer-chugging college students, and with plenty more spilling out wildly onto the sidewalk, Tempest Bar lives up to its name (at least on weekends). Just a stone's throw from Madison Square Garden, this place is frat-house deluxe with its dorm-guy décor of license plates, beer logos and traffic signs, not to mention the NCAA beaming from TVs throughout. The red-lit, mirror-lined back room, which doubles as the dance floor, is a sea of upturned collars and exposed midriffs, backward baseball caps and Gotti-gelled hair. And the soundtrack? Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, naturally, although sometimes it's hard to tell when the high-fiving crowd screams along with the lyrics. In the front room, worse-for-wear partiers slump on low dark-wood benches or fight their way up to the bar for another round.

Extra

On Monday and Tuesday nights, Tempest Bar plays host to the New York Dart Organization's league competitions.

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