Suds With Securb: Beer Destination New York

Posted by Bruce Owens On May - 23 - 2007 ADD COMMENTS

Suds With Securb Logo This is a new feature I am trying out here at TMR. Suds With Securb “ Beer Destinations. When we are traveling there are many places that are listed on websites as beer destinations. When we get there we are sometimes disappointed to find a sub-par establishment with a questionable beer selection. This is my attempt to save you a little bit of shoe leather the next time you land at one of these said destinations. Our first Beer Destination is the city that never sleeps¦ New York City.

I havent been in the city since just before 9-11… Back in the days when I sold financial software on Wall Street. I enjoyed frequent trips to NYC. Drinks at The Boathouse, dinner at The Four Seasons. Even then, the sanitized version of New York Rudy Guiliani still offered up a ton of charm. But even then I could see the New York of my youth slipping away.

Prior to those days, my trips to The Big Apple would be drunken road trips with my bandmates. These are the pre-Rudy days “ when Times Square was Sodom and Gomorra, not the Disney North it has now become. Long gone are the peep booths whose floors make your average movie theater floor seem sanitary. The seedy bars that once dotted Broadway are now long gone, replaced by corporate gin mills with flashy names and no personalities. Read the rest of this entry »

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