Pub Crawl

NYC Pub & Bar Crawl Walking Tour
New York

Ten bars where writers drank, films were shot, and TV crews came calling — from Midtown to the West Village.

10 stops · 8.5 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

P.J. Clarke's

Billy Wilder used this bar as the setting for The Lost Weekend, the Best Picture winner about an alcoholic writer on a bender, and Frank Sinatra considered Table 20 his personal property, ending his Manhattan nights here for years.

The Rum House

Michael Keaton and Edward Norton argue over whiskeys here in two key scenes from Birdman, and the cast and crew liked the bar enough to hold their wrap party here on the last night of filming.

The Algonquin

From 1919 onward, a group of writers and wits calling themselves the Vicious Circle met here for lunch daily, including Dorothy Parker and Harold Ross, who used the sessions to help plan The New Yorker.

Old Town Bar

This bar has appeared in the opening credits of Late Night with David Letterman, in Sex and the City and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and in music videos for House of Pain's "Jump Around" and Madonna's "Bad Girl."

Pete's Tavern

O. Henry, who lived around the corner, wrote about this bar in his short story "The Lost Blend," and local legend holds he wrote "The Gift of the Magi" in the second booth from the front.

McSorley's Old Ale House

Joseph Mitchell's classic New Yorker writing made this 1854 ale house famous, though women weren't actually allowed inside until 1970, when a federal court ruling forced the issue.

Mulberry Street Bar

This Little Italy bar has appeared in Godfather III, Donnie Brasco and more Sopranos episodes than you can count, and it was also one of Frank Sinatra's regular haunts in the neighborhood.

Fanelli's Cafe

Fanelli's kept serving through the decades when SoHo was largely abandoned after World War II, before the artists arrived, and regulars have included Chuck Close, Rocky Graziano and Bob Dylan.

The Ear Inn

The Ear Inn got its name in 1977, when the owner painted over part of the original BAR sign to avoid needing a new one approved by the Landmarks Commission, inside a building dating to 1817 where Mark Twain, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman all once drank.

White Horse Tavern

Dylan Thomas drank eighteen whiskeys here in November 1953 before collapsing outside and dying a few days later, a visit still marked by a plaque above the bar.

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