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Book Club Bar
Book store · East Village ·
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"Walking into the East Village’s Book Club Bar, I felt a deliberate contrast to the neighborhood party scene — the space (opened in 2019 by Erin Neary and Nat Esten, who met in a book club) stays open late (usually until midnight, and 1 a.m. Thu–Sat), stocks about 5,000 titles, and pairs a full bar with a literary-themed cocktail menu (examples include the Allen Gin-sberg and the In Cold Bloody Mary); it attracts solo readers, dates, events, and actual book clubs and prides itself on offering a tactile, screen-free place to read with a drink." - Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
