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As with most New Yorkers, college students need a drink now and then. After all, New York is a true college town, with lots of universities and colleges scattered throughout its five boroughs. Given the landscape, you'll find many places catering to the student crowd. NYC.com leads you there.
Popular lounge, grill and karaoke bar on the Upper East Side.
1452 2nd AveThis notoriously anonymous Brooklyn dive draws a lot of art students from nearby Pratt Institute and the usual neighborhood characters. Drinks are dirt cheap, so why not dive bar it Brooklyn style?
242 Dekalb AveMorningside Heights' sporty, fratty, Columbia-appropriate bar and tavern.
995 Amsterdam AveCharming hole-in-the-ground (or, at least, a few steps below street level) with great drink specials, a nice fireplace alcove, and a curious mix of sports bar and singles scene.
177 West 4th StreetReturn of the Fish! Seemingly chased out of the LES by ever increasing rents, Max Fish returns in its new digs on 120 Orchard Street. The fish that spawned it all, Max Fish was one of the early Lower East Side revival bars, offering plenty of action, alcohol, excitement, nonsense...
120 Orchard St (bet. Rivington and Delancey)A teensy Irish pub that attracts big drinkers. So many poets died drinking in NYC; here is the place to drink spirits in their honor.
450 Amsterdam Ave (West 81 & 82 Streets)Superlatives abound when you are talking about one of New York's oldest continuously-operating bars. McSorley's is so old, in fact, that it it might as well have come with the colony when the British bought it. For over 150 years, McSorley's has been brewing its own, and just ent...
15 East 7th Street (2nd and 3rd Avenues)Morningside Heights college bar with darts and pool.
1020 Amsterdam AveOld school East Village dive bar, about the furthest thing from a library there is! Jukebox filled with punk rock and metal, kung-fu movies projected on back wall, a population of aging rockers, NYU students, and the new denizens of the East Village (they are the ones in the coll...
7 Avenue A (Houston Street)Multi-level place that brings hordes of young people who have every intention of having enough to drink to make it easy to take to one another. I mean, really, just have one more and go up and say hello! Sports on the tvs downstairs. Live DJs to show your moves. Good times!
133 7th Ave South (bet. Charles and 10th Streets)For more than 50 years, Dorrian's has been one weird spot. Opened in the days when the Upper East Side-adjacent Yorkville was a scrappy little neighborhood, it has been a place to see Yankees grabbing a drink, serial killers grabbing victims, and Ivy Leaguers home for vacation.
300 E 84th StThere're no attitudes here, just a fun, friendly staff that will will treat you like family. The decor is cozy, the music's loud and the drinks are served strong and ice cold. Bar None also has the longest running Happy Hour in the city: offering $2 Bud drafts and $3 cocktails al...
98 3rd AveBourbon Street Bar and Grill is a casual fine dining New Orleans’s restaurant serving authentic New Orleans’s Creole cuisine, on New York City's famous Restaurant Row. Old-world gas lamps and wrought iron balconies add a distinct hint of New Orlean's French Quarter.
346 West 46th Street (8th and 9th Avenues)A wood-and-brick atmosphere lends an air of the collegiate to the Fat Black Pussycat, with billiards to be had a happy hour Monday through Fridays.
130 West 3rd StreetAce Bar looks suspiciously like a library, except all of the books have been replaced by vintage lunchboxes, and the librarians are actually serving alcohol! Great place to play, with darts, skee-ball, several pool tables all in a space with a rock & roll vibe befitting its E...
531 East 5th StreetThey take their beer seriously here with dozens of taps serving up craft beers as well as classic watery American beer. Popular with discerning (and not so discerning) NYU crowd who take advantage of their sophisticated offerings by buying the cheapest stuff they can get their mi...
76 W 3rd Street (Thompson Street)Sports bar in Greenwich Village with a gazillion screens and one giant 100 Inch one - with all the Major American professional and college leagues. Frequented by younger crowd that looks suspiciously like they are from NYU
109 MacDougal StreetA devoutly Irish pub in the East Village, with a first floor that's wide and open and features every possible sports game they can fit on their considerable armada of flat screens and a second floor that is strangely unmatched, with faux chic lighting, a more nightclub-like bar, ...
109 East 9th Street (Between Third and Fourth Aves.)If you find yourself on Bleecker Street but can't bear the thought of slipping into one of those overcrowded college bars, your best bet is to follow the light of the Village Lantern. Part Italian restaurant and part laid back watering hole, it attracts a friendly crowd of twenty...
167 Bleecker Street (Between Thompson and Sullivan Sts.)East Village pub with a long bar, cheap booze and the youthful hordes that come with it. Long time staple of East Village carousing, great place to start - or end - or do the in-between - of an evening. Popular with the kids from nearby NYU.
155 2nd Ave