A majority of us have been there, stuck inside for at least 48 hours and you're praying that chinese food delivery will save you. When you're snowed in especially in the city of New York, it's living on a prayer, because your tiny studio apartment or three roommates are driving you batty and you need to drink and socialize. Get your gloves and faux fur trapper hat, we're going drinking below 14th Street.
Enter if you have thick skin. MARS Bar has been the East Village/Lower East Side's 'Welcome to F&cking Manhattan" welcome wagon for many many years. Jukebox: Hardcore classic punk gems from Dead Kennedy's to The Vibrators. (Yeah, that hardcore) - 25 East 1st Street at 2nd Ave
Broome Street Bar, I know for a fact that the owner lives within the same block radius and just like the old days, keeps tabs open for its locals. It's like your dad's bar (if he was that kind of cool).
Jukebox; The Rolling Stones, Dan Fogerty, U2 - 363 W. Broadway (between Grand and Leonard)
Welcome to the Johnson's. I once lived right next door to this hipster/retro watering hole. Thankfully, no Upper East Siders were allowed (or at least found its way to this below Houston drinking HQ). It's 'That 70's Show' meets Williamsburg on Rivington Street in the LES. Jukebox: The Stone Roses, The Hives, The Pixies - 123 Rivington Street (between Essex & Norfolk)
XR Bar are the cheapest drinks below 14th Street. Jukebox: I can't even recall, I'm too busy getting served my drinks on. - 128 W. Houston (between MacDougal & Sullivan)
