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The best hookup bars in NYC
Hooking up is hard to do—unless you know where to go. These are the best hookup bars in NYC, so read on, Casanova!
Looking to get laid? Cramped, hot places with free-flowing alcohol are still your best bet, and lucky for you, New York City is a treasure trove of such locales, as our roundup of the 50 best bars in NYC attests. If you’re sick of being single in New York, here's our pick of the surest spots for scoring your next bed-fellow—and be sure to cue up our playlist of the sexiest songs ever made for when you get home with your honey.
Black Rabbit
This Greenpoint establishment is a classy spot: not the kind of place you'll want to get royally tanked in. In fact, it's largely discouraged. Half the regulars here are writers, performers and comedians—so bring your A-game and if you can hold your own (both liquor-wise and conversationally); you'll be rewarded by the unforgiving oak bar magically opening up and becoming one of the best singles bars in the city. Found a friend? Duck into one the old-timey oak booths and shut the little door; a waiter(!) will bring you your next round of drinks and/or as many pickleback shots as you can manage.
Good for picking up: Sassy tattooed folk with stories that'll last all night.
Sexiest feature: Amply sized bathrooms. For, you know, whatever you need to do in there.
Boat
Boat can perhaps best be described as a dimly lit orange box that straddles the line between a Cheers-like neighborhood bar (with cuter clientele) and a classic NYC dive. Its jukebox is legendary, as are the bartenders, who are likely to serve up some snark with that Tecate if you start getting rowdy. Around 2am, this is the spot in Cobble Hill for locals looking to get lucky.
Good for picking up: A tipsy writer. Or teamster.
Sexiest feature: The jukebox offers plenty of opportunities for “Oh my God, that’s my favorite band, too!” pickups, but the back booths are where it’s at. (And by “it,” we mean dry humping.)
Home Sweet Home
Take your desires underground and get your groove on at this former bean-sprout factory turned sweaty, eccentric LES bar. Gawk at the taxidermic rabbit, eagle and beaver behind the bar and sip a zesty cocktail while making eyes at the bespectacled cutie across the room.
Good for picking up: Guys who really, really, really like beards. Girls who really, really, really like septum piercings.
Sexiest feature: Four words: Friday. Night. Soul. Music.
Hotel Chantelle
Embrace your inner seductress when you enter this 1940s Parisian dream. Quench your thirst with a Devil’s Spring (Spring 44 gin, raspberry syrup and ginger syrup) and then meander on down to the underground dance club to rub up against the single-and-very-ready-to-mingle crowd. And pop some Dom Pérignon, if you’re feeling bottle service amounts of frisky.
Good for picking up: Tipsy young’ns that just inherited their grandmother’s rent-controlled LES apartment. Real estate privilege is hot!
Sexiest feature: Leather banquettes, mood lighting, airy rooftop….looks really do matter.
Houston Hall
This sprawling, West Village beer garden boasts high ceilings, long communal tables and a variety of ales and lagers so great it’d make any beer-lover blush. Get gamey with a pong companion on a weeknight or get next-level promiscuous while gyrating to a Saturday night DJ set. The scene is buzzy but low-key, so bring your best wingman/wingwoman along for the grind-and-bumpy ride.
Good for picking up: Bros that just want to get down in a beer garden.
Sexiest feature: You can wink and clink beers at the bar and swap numbers plus more at the rear.
This article was written by by By Anna Furman Posted: Monday December 28 2015 and available at: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/sex-dating/best-hookup-bars-in-nyc
