You could spend your evenings sipping cosmopolitans in a beautifully chic nightspot uptown. Or you could hammer out three rounds of pool with your questionable new associates, drinking beers and chasers and listening to everything the jukebox has to offer in a dimly lit bar with few windows and shared toilets. Or is that too hipster these days? Where’s your favourite dive bar in the Big Apple?

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