Comments on: New York removes last old man bar; comics jam moves

By: hipnoj

hipnoj — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:22:35 +0000

By: hipnoj

hipnoj — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:22:12 +0000

By: Trisha Lynn

Trisha Lynn — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:00:47 +0000

Man, I really feel your guys’ pain. Every time I’ve tried to get a bunch of New Yorkers together to do anything, we almost always end up meeting in Manhattan because it’s “central” to everything. Except, the funniest part about the last meeting on the Lower East Side at Ace Bar is that almost everyone was from Queens.

I’d tell you guys to go to this great “old man’s bar” that some friends and I went to recently, but first it’s in Queens and second of all, I don’t remember exactly where it is right now.

By: Bill Scurry

Bill Scurry — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:05:00 +0000

I’m still weeping over Cedars being shuttered.

By: Neil Kleid

Neil Kleid — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:02:59 +0000

Man, I miss the fries they used to make at McCarthy’s. Nothing like comics jam on fries and beer.

Screw this. Let’s start jamming at Hooter’s.

By: Cheese

Cheese — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:59:10 +0000

Hey, I live in jersey City…

By: Tag

Tag — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:12:32 +0000

Manhattan WAS the birthplace of culture, Heidi. Now it’s where corporations come to feed on the creative remora eels who mistake their relationships for symbiotic. The outer boroughs are where anything that still remotely flirts with danger lives now. Be glad I didn’t suggest Jersey City.

Besides, I think the phrase you want is, “F&¢% you and the L train you rode in on.”

By: Ed Mathews

Ed Mathews — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:04:13 +0000

Ah, yes… sorry about that. For some reason I had a huge brain fart and thought it was McSorely’s.

By: Cheese

Cheese — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:05:28 +0000

That’s McSorely’s, not McCarthy’s.

By: Ed Mathews

Ed Mathews — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:04:24 +0000

Are you seriously sad to see this go? It wasn’t until 1986 that they let women in because THEY WERE FORCED TO.

By: Cheese

Cheese — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:01:10 +0000

Yeah, it’s gotta be Manhattan, we have people coming from all over (Queens, Brooklyn, Jersey, etc.) and six of our regulars live on the island. No offense to Brooklyn, I went to a comic thing there on Sunday at Freddy’s and had a blast (they also have a great back room). All I need is that, but a mile or two west.

By: The Beat

The Beat — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:25:35 +0000

Screw you and your metro card, Tag! MANHATTAN IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF CULTURE!

By: Tag

Tag — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:22:03 +0000

I’ve been to a few of the jams and liked McCarthy’s fine. Nicely understated. But hardly the last of the “old man bars”; the city’s lousy with ‘em still. Mebbe Mustang Sally’s on, what is it, 7th Ave and 20-something street? Or resurrect the drunk comickers’ scene at Ace Bar; the back room is well-lit for the pool players and has many a booth, plus the drinks are still halfway cheap last I checked (admittedly, over a year ago). Surely there’s some lightly-trafficked, well-lit, inexpensive boozehall in a city held hostage to real estate developers, no?

Two words: outer boroughs. Perhaps Rocketship might even want to set up a sequential art speakeasy (no relation to the defunct publishers). Manhattan is SO over.

By: Cheese

Cheese — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:19:29 +0000

Thanks for all the suggestions, I’m adding a few of them to our scouting list.

There are two Lotus bars, Lotus Lounge is on Clinton and Stanton, Lotus Club is on 14th in the meatpacking district. The Lotus Lounge manager seemed agreeable to turning up some of the lights, but I have yet to see how it’d look at night.

Hicky’s is an option, Colden and I had a beer in there a month or two ago, but yes, it does smell like piss and that area gets sketchier late at night. I also don’t remember a huge amount of table space there, but I could be mistaken.

The Holiday is still open, and is one of my favorite places, but lacks the light needed and keeps odd hours, especially during the week; sometimes it’s open until one, other times it closes at eight. It’s worth looking into though.

By: The Beat

The Beat — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:04:41 +0000

Kevin, I used to go to Lotus almost every Saturday when my pals Rontronik and Gunseller were spinning there and it was ALWAYS packed. PACKED PACKED. Lotus has the worst layout of any dance club I've ever seen with a huge bar blocking all access. But maybe it is less crowded now that my pals have left!