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5 places in New York City, grouped by what you'd actually go there for.

5 places · 5 checked in the last 90 days · newest 44 days ago

Nightlife & Sound 4

Nightlife & Sound
diningout.com — NYC bar & restaurant openings, September 2, 2026+3
Bar Etienne

Dessert comes from the bakery next door

French-leaned cocktails and steak au poivre, dessert sent over from the bakery next door.

Bar Etienne took over the former Bandits space at 44 Bedford Street in the West Village, and the most visible change is underfoot: a new terrazzo floor where Bandits ran a checkerboard, per The Infatuation's reporting on the buildout. The room reopened as a French-leaned cocktail bar in the back half of 2026, though…

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Nightlife & Sound
w42st — After an Abrupt Shutdown, Monkey Thief Finds a New Home on 9th Ave+7
Monkey Thief

Shut down, then rebuilt three rooms bigger

A licensing shutdown killed the old room; it reopened next door with three rooms, not one.

Hell's Kitchen lost a bar and got a bigger one back. Monkey Thief opened on 9th Avenue in late 2024 as a Pan-Asian cocktail room built around its founders' time living and traveling through Asia — then shut down abruptly in 2026 after a licensing dispute, the kind of sudden closure w42st, the neighborhood's own indie…

STEFANNew York City
Nightlife & Sound
Nowadays — official site (hours & location)+6
Nowadays

The club where the yard is the point

Free-by-day courtyard, warehouse dance floor by night, run by Mister Saturday Night.

Nowadays sits right on the Ridgewood-Bushwick line, and the split in its own name describes the place: a fenced outdoor courtyard strung with picnic tables and games, and a 5,000-square-foot indoor warehouse room next to it. Most places pick one register and run it into the ground. Nowadays runs both, on the same…

STEFANNew York City
Nightlife & Sound
The Bush — official site (hours, location, contact)+8
The Bush

The dyke bar Bushwick actually needed

A Bushwick lesbian bar with a real dance floor, built for people who wanted to make out.

The Bush opened on Troutman Street in April 2023 with one very specific complaint behind it. "There wasn't any place where we could get a cocktail and also go dance and cruise," co-founder Nikke Alleyne told Time Out New York. Her business partner Justine LaViolette put the mission statement even more plainly to the…

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Food & Drink 1

Food & Drink
CultureMap Fort Worth — Goldee's & Kirbee's pitmasters fire up BBQ joint in NYC+5
Kirbee's

Two Texas pitmasters, one Greenpoint smoker

Two Texas pitmasters teamed up in Greenpoint; the $90 beef rib plate is already a debate.

Jonny White, a co-founder of Fort Worth's Goldee's — No. 1 on Texas Monthly's 2021 top-50 Texas barbecue list — teamed up with Chuck Charnichart of Lockhart's Barbs B Q to open Kirbee's in a 20-24-seat Greenpoint room. "Chuck is one of my best friends and an amazing chef," White told CultureMap. "I'm super excited for…

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