Bar Review: Welcome to the Johnson's, Manhattan

Neighborhood: Manhattan/Lower East Side
123 Rivington Street (between Essex St & Norfolk St)
New York, NY 10002 (212) 420-9911

1970s basement/rec room theme complete with fake wood paneling, plastic-covered couches, framed yearbook pictures, awful landscape paintings, and those flying geese—you know the ones I’m talking about. This could be any old basement from Portland to the Midwest to New Jersey. Sure the place is full of hipsters, but it is also full of good music and cheap alcohol, including $1.50 PBRs during happy hour. There’s an old pool table and a table-top Ms. PacMan game, as well as a great jukebox. The bathrooms are almost as notorious as those at Mars Bar, but still have locks—give it a few years for the grime & stink to really sink in.

Reviewed by Gina Myers, for nycbyme.com


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