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There seems to be a new craft beer bar opening every week in New York City. It’s our job to let you know about them, so let’s do that in our latest edition of First Look. Of course, with all these new places, you can’t possibly visit them all in just your weekend time. So perhaps it’s time to play hooky and check some of these new spots off your to-do list.
Time for another edition of New Brews, where we tell you about the new beers arriving on draft lines and beer store shelves around the city. In this edition, we’ll tell you about some new bottles, cans, and draft beers from four of the city’s brewers.
It seems like there’s a beer festival every month here in New York. But as soon as summer comes around, the beer fests heat up as the weather heats. Here’s a rundown of three beer festivals headed our way in the next couple weeks. They each offer very different experiences at every price point for every set of taste buds.
#FDNY on scene at the Pony Bar on E 75th & 1st Ave. The bar is cordoned off with yellow tape. #Manhattan pic.twitter.com/fVmTMyGgA3
— Allison Papson (@AllisonPapson) May 24, 2015Some rather disheartening news from the Upper East Side over the holiday weekend: The Pony Bar UES (1444 First Ave. at 75th St., Upper East Side) suffered a fire on Sunday and the intent of the incident appears to be malicious.
It seems like Spring came and went quickly, and New York has entered the muggy season where the condensation on your beer glass forms a small puddle on the ground. But don’t fret! There are plenty of sunny and relatively dry days on the calendar, and that’s when the outdoor spaces of some of the city’s best beer bars come alive. In a city where indoor space is at a premium, outdoor space can make a bar practically double in size.
So grab a craft beer and check out these 12 places where you can drink in the great outdoors.
With LIC Beer Project coming on line this month, New York City now has 22 breweries – a number not seen in generations. The number of breweries operating in New York City has more than doubled in the past two years, and has grown vastly from the three that were in operation as recently as 2010. Slowly, New York is beginning to catch up to a trend occurring nationwide for several years.
While the number of New York City-based companies brewing beer outside of the city has been significantly higher, the cost of real estate needed to accommodate a brewery has been a hurdle to a brick-and-mortar facility in the city, forcing breweries to choose locations off the beaten path or secure large amounts of capital in order to open here. Real estate costs are a key factor in keeping the number of breweries in the city artificially low. Some breweries have taken the route of crowdfunding or economic development grants to jumpstart their opening or expansion.
