Random Musings: Then and Now: First Avenue's Downtown Beirut
WEBA long city block from Tompkins Square Park, Downtown Beirut acquired an offbeat reputation. If you stayed late enough, some girls in halter tops and boots might get up and dance on the bar. The jukebox was renowned for having a great selection of tunes you were pretty unlikely to hear elsewhere.
Then and Now: Downtown Beirut, NYC - Film Inspector
WEBApr 22, 2021 · A long city block from Tompkins Square Park, Downtown Beirut acquired an offbeat reputation. If you stayed late enough, some girls in halter tops and boots might get up and dance on the bar. The jukebox was renowned for having a great selection of tunes you were pretty unlikely to hear elsewhere.
Downtown Beirut bar - Ephemeral New York
WEBJun 20, 2011 · A lot has changed in the 26 years since the East Village Eye published this guide to the neighborhood’s coolest bars and restaurants (bar drinks $1 till 10 pm, for starters).
Downtown Beirut Calling - Flaming Pablum
WEBAug 15, 2018 · Back on the NYC tip, though, some of you will remember the old Downtown Beirut bar on First Avenue just north of East 9th Street (although, I want to say it had a brief incarnation somewhere else after it closed up in the mid-90’s).
Manhattan’s Most-Mourned Bars - The New York Times Web …
WEBOct 10, 2012 · As editor and writer (and former Downtown Beirut bartender) Carolyn Lengel puts it, the place was like “an East Village apartment party — dark, loud, dirty and filled with entertaining,...
EV Grieve: Heading back to Downtown Beirut
WEBMay 15, 2024 · Photo by David Vega via Flaming Pablum. On Friday evening, you can revisit a celebrated and long-gone East Village bar (RIP 1994). Lucky on B plays host to two shorts filmed at Downtown Beirut, 158 First Ave. between Ninth Street and 10th Street... A description:
EV Grieve: Downtown Beirut, around 1990, about 3 a.m.
WEBJan 5, 2009 · Tended bar there (and at Beirut II on Houston) in 90-91. Owner's initiation was to confront EVERY new bartender about stealing drinks. Crowds during prime shifts (after 8 Th-Mon) were great.
Brooklyn author Elissa Schappell on her favorite New York bar …
WEBSep 23, 2014 · Brooklyn author Elissa Schappell on her favorite New York bar. In an exclusive excerpt, Elissa Schappell reminisces about her favorite New York watering hole, Downtown Beirut.
Mourning lost bars; early morning at Downtown Beirut - EV Grieve
WEBOct 11, 2012 · The neighborhood is well-represented in the listicle: Mars Bar, Downtown Beirut and The Holiday Cocktail Lounge. (And two nearby: The Cedar Tavern and Good World Bar and Grill.) A lot of room for debate in that list.
American Saloons, Bars & Taverns | ~~~ Remembering a classic
WEB~~~ Remembering a classic 1980s New York City "dive Bar" known as "Downtown Beirut." It was damned eclectic with the occasional famous person mixing with young writers, artists, musicians, etc., punk...