{"id":42835,"date":"2025-11-17T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42835\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:50:11","slug":"nyc-old-town-bar-is-a-legacy-new-york-bar-with-good-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42835\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Old Town Bar Is a Legacy New York Bar With Good Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oldtownbarnyc.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Old Town Bar and Restaurant<\/a> is located on what was once a robust Gilded Age shopping district called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boweryboyshistory.com\/2014\/05\/the-sumptuous-story-of-ladies-mile.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ladies\u2019 Mile<\/a>. Today, it draws an eclectic mix of locals and travelers who want to hole up and watch a game or catch a break from the bustle of the surrounding Union Square area. (It\u2019s my go-to spot to chill out when I\u2019m showing friends the city.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The true pull of the over-a-century-old establishment is the time capsule atmosphere; there are towering, antique tin ceilings, intimate dark wood booths with mirrors, and a sprawling mahogany bar where one can imagine moustached tycoons posting up with a whiskey while their wives went on the hunt for the perfect hat in the 1900s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Swing at a table in the back room for a prime view of the still-functioning dumbwaiter, which the restaurant claims to be the oldest in New York City (along with the men\u2019s fancy porcelain urinals, by the way).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old Town Bar and Restaurant is located on what was once a robust Gilded Age shopping district called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17863,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-42835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-dining-reports","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}