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Coal Yard Bar: Taking back the neighborhood, one dive bar at a time—so seems the ambition of the duo behind Coal Yard, opened not a hundred yards down from their original cavernous, gritty-but-not-grimy, East Village watering hole International Bar. The concept of both bars is the same: create a no-frills space filled with cheap beers, good music, and bartenders who have been around the block long enough to know their crowd. While "refreshing" may not be the first word that comes to mind as you leave the light of day to enter the dark low-ceilinged bar, with Lower Manhattan being overtaken by eight-ingredient cocktails, handlebar mustaches and mid-century tiles, a "new" dive bar is most welcome to the scene. None of the drafts—including the gem Captain Lawrence Pale Ale, a local brew—are over 5 bucks, and everything is a dollar off between 3pm and 8pm...the exact hours you might imagine yourself whiling away in this bar. While the name is a throw-back to the 1850s era coal yards that dominated the area, the bar itself is a throw-back to a pre-NYU era when the village may not have been pretty, but wasn’t pretentious, either. |
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