New York Magazine

A low-key, longstanding Theater District leather bar with an over-30 local crowd.

Colored lights and sleek silver walls make this spaceship of a club take off.

The sister bar of Flatiron’s Aspen has wood jutting out from every direction.

Legends play the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, an intimate but spacious supper club that ranges well beyond its titular subject matter.

Modern Times Square hotel bar with well-designed, if impersonal, sleekness.

A great (gay) place to go if you want to meet people; a very bad place if you want to brood over a Stoli raspberry.

Cool jazz in a hot and swanky setting.

Dorothy Parker's former haunt attracts highballers nostalgic for old New York.

One of NYC's best pre- and post-theater bars.

What would be a forgettable sports bar in any other neighborhood is, in the case of the Bull Moose Saloon, a haven of calm for the Times Square escapee.

Headliners take a star turn while emerging young talent nip at their heels, at New York's best-known comedy club.

A standard bar with a distinct crowd.

Look past the backlit bottles of Patrón and you’ll see a friendly neighborhood bar heavy with regulars.

Fifteen flat-screens dominate the long, narrow room, a kind of suburban sports bar with Ikea lighting fixtures, beige couches, and office workers in Tees and fleeces.

Cheap drinks, a pool table, and friendly boozers in the shadow of Port Authority.

A low-key pub on West 46th Street’s touristy Restaurant Row.

Come to the cabaret, old chum.

Eden’s outdoor deck provides an escape from Times Square’s insane surface-level antics.

This mega sports bar gives new meaning to the phrase "media circus."

A loft-like space in need of the right high-powered publicist.

An oxford button-down bar wearing Emerald Isle green underneath.

It’s "bartender on duty" at this posh spa-like lounge and swimming pool.

A club managed by comics for comics with a show roster that's heavily weighted towards no-name up-and-comers.

The rooftop lounge Highbar is the latest from Greg Brier of Aspen, D’Or, and Amalia.

Airliner comfort and conversation at this dark, subdued hotel lounge.