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96th St (6)
86th St (4, 5, 6)
** This Bar is CLOSED, the building it is in was leaning and got condemned**
I figured this place would have mixed reviews here on Yelp. I don't disagree with the 1 star, nor the 5 star reviews. This kinda bar will bring out the widest opinions.
As the 1 star people say, it is a nasty, dirty, low grade bar. It appears to be finished cheaply, mirrors, unfinished raised wood floors, etc.
The walls are adorned with bras, beads, from parties gone by. neutral.
The beer pong tables were packed, seems like a popular aspect of the bar. If you can't put up with hot bartenders in semi-degradated positions that have a 'coyote ugly' tone, then you won't like this place.
I've been after work for a beer or two, this is way before the place gets crowded. I've been late on a Saturday night, i've seen the girls dancing on the bar, the wheel spinning the shot girls running around and the batchelorette parties. I can have fun here and I'll be coming back, but I probably won't be a regular.
I like the place. They know what they are, and they are true to that. For that they get an 4 stars, Yay! I'm a fan.
FRAT-TASTIC!
Concrete floors. Barren, drinkin'-shack-in-the-woods-or-your-nearest-colleg e-town feel.
Bikini-clad bartenders. Better at talking to each other than working the bar.
....and BEER PONG. Nevermind that they call it "Beirut" here for some reason. Just play, drink, and enjoy.
Went here with some friends this weekend and had a great time.
Sure, it's not the most convenient location (I'm never on the UES). Sure, it kind of has a frat house vibe (we witnessed several body shots being taken and some pretty excellent white boy dancing). Sure, I got back home at 5am after drinking several pitchers and was hungover for the majority of my Sunday. But, it was a good time while we were there.
Added fun - pay the $5 to spin the wheel. But be prepared to fulfill on what you spin. The bartenders mean business!
My first solo-star review goes to. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . The Big Easy! The service was terrible. And by 'service', I mean the empty verbal promises to turn up the vols for ourselves, the lone occupants of this sticky, icky, beer-pong unit. Of course this left me (urban renegade heroine) no choice but to sneak into the abandoned DJ booth and do the deed myself. I faced eviction; the five or six flaccid, domestic brews in me didn't care. Unexpected: when detected, they accused my beer-swaddled companion of the crime, and threatened to toss her to the curb despite my protests, claiming that they captured her on 'security camera'. Riiiiight.
Everything I wrote in my previous review still stands, but they have a coat check here now. A bar that serves its draft beer in too small plastic cups and has cans of Natty Light for $1.50 probably shouldn't have a coat check, but it's a nice addition. This is especially true considering it's usually about 106 degrees in here.
A guy wearing a "An 11 is a 10 that swallows" t-shirt said I looked exactly like someone he knew from the World Pong League. I don't know what that is, but it probably shouldn't exist.
I'm not exactly sure why people go here. It's not that it's obscenely warm, dirty or full of… Read more »
Most of my friends live on the upper east side so late nights usually end here. Hottest bartenders! Beer pong, music, fun wheel, photo hunt, it's great.
RIP Big Easy
It's a frat party in a bar. It's college all over again. It's trashy and weird and full of beer pong and a drink wheel and guys trying to hit on you. But I still go there.
My friends used to live right by so we would go there for $1 beers (is it a dollar? Or $2? I don't remember...but it's cheap) and hang out before going somewhere else or go to after going somewhere else. The bartenders do indeed show a bit of skin and pour shots down your throat and give you beads after. It's always a party and if you're not in the mood for a party do NOT go there. But if you feel like playing beer pong and drinking a lot of cheap beer then it is a good choice.
Not sure why so many people are against the "college bar" atomesphere.
Just b/c you have moved to NY and you now have a fancy job doesn't mean that you should only drink $15 martinis. Hey, I drink those too and have $$$ sushi, but that doesn't mean that I am too good for a college bar.
Come here, be rowdy, be yourself.
Chances of Returning: 70%
This is by definition Thee College Bar, so know that going into it and you should have a goodtime. If you're not looking to relive your college days, stay far far away.
This place offers beer pong, hot bartenders dancing on the bar and pouring shots down your throat, and the legendary drink wheel. If you want to get rowdy with a group of your buds, this is a good place to be. The beer is cheap, the place is smelly, and that girl standing next to you may or maynot be hot but it wont matter after a couple more shots anyway.
They throw some pretty good parties for Halloween, Valentines Day, New Years, and St. Pattys. Bring your liver, you will need it.
This place makes me happy I went to a school where only 1% of the students joined fraternities or sororities.
If you're a guy and pride yourself on being the most crass and obnoxious douchebag in your social circle, or if you're a woman and you enjoy being aggressively groped by the aforementioned crass and obnoxious guys trying to get you drunk off the cheapest beer on tap, then this is the place for you. Otherwise, stay far, far away.
And don't even get me started on how awful the "bartenders" are at mixing drinks.
Bathroom Grade: 4/10. WHY, for the love of GOD, would you put the bathroom at the bottom of the stairs in a place that literally drowns its patrons in cheap alcohol. If you can make it down there in one piece, there are many stalls, but the sinks don't exactly work.
I will be delighted if I never set foot in here again. It smells like a combination of bleach and piss and I'm pretty sure you can get hepatitis if you actually touch the bar or the bare wood plank floor. Its the pinnacle of frat row nastiness.
Ugh. I need to take a shower just thinking about how gross this place is.
It's a dive bar. Get over it. Reading all the negative reviews on yelp makes me laugh because just because this place doesn't compare to a "typical" bar people bash it. Are there drunk college ages kids playing beer pong and shotgunning beers? Of course. This may not be a nice bar, but for someone who doesn't care where he drinks and for the prices to be really cheap especially for NY, I don't see how you can go wrong. I have always had a fun time here with my best friend when I visit him.
To all the people who bash this place: If you can't tell what kind of bar this is within 10 seconds of being inside, leave.
The Big Easy bar smells TERRIBLE. We walked in looking for a good dive bar and were attracted to this bar because hockey was on. We were greeted by flimsy stools, a nasty atmosphere, a terrible smell, and bartenders who didn't smile or even acknowledge our presence. When they finally did, it wasn't "Hey, how are ya?" It was, "Whaddya need?" We said, "Never mind" and walked out. If you live in New York, why go to a typical American bar when you have such awesome dives around? If you're visiting, why go to a bar you can find anywhere from Alabama to Delaware when you can go to a dive with a cozy atmosphere, good people, and best of all: no odor?
This place feels more like my buddy Rassul's suite from college than a bar. You can only get domestic draft beer and they don't have any food, though they do have take-out menus there for local places where they're happy for your to order from and enjoy here (I'm not sure how I feel about it, I always feel like I should share with the bartenders who seem to be working for beer). The TV's are a little old, permanently set to sports and the music is often from the 80's. Oh yeah, and the beer pong thing....other places sort of have a table, this place has 3, and they bring out a couple more as the night goes on. So all in all, unless you're totally into playing beer pong with that crowd, this is going to feel like a pretty sceezy place. If this place had a hookah and a bed, he'd still probably be living here.
Thinking about it though, it's hard to knock this place too much .... I've always have had a great time.
Just really echoing the "Big Sleazy" nickname that has been Yelp-bestowed on this place...
Totally frat-tastically gross.
One addition - no one has yet to mention the disgusting ceiling. Seriously, we were afraid parts were going to crumble into our plastic cups of beer. You could not pay me to go in there again (okay...maybe...but it wouldn't be cheap!)
2 stars only because if you are into trying to forget you aren't in college anymore, than this place is heaven. For everyone else, go elsewhere.
I think this place has gotten such baaaad reviews because it really caters to a niche group of people that I do believe have not discovered yelp yet...and therefore, does not include us!
The Big Easy IS sleezy, dirty, full of cheap liquor drinks and boys that are either trying to relive their heydays in college or are still in college looking to get obliterated. The bartenders are young and barely dressed trying to get any and all guys to "spin the wheel" in hopes of one of them landing on a "body shot" spin so they can lay on the bar and have the guy take a body shot off of her. You're really thrown back into freshman year when you're asked to turn around in your bar seat, lean back on the bar and have booze poured down your throat.
Believe me...this is not my kind of bar.
BUT I had an awesome time last Friday night. So it's really what you make of it. You gotta go in knowing this might take you down memory lane or bring you back to the days of frat parties...but if you have a good group of friends there, and you snag a beer pong table early...it can definitely be a good night. Just remember to bring your own beer cups for pong...otherwise you're sharing with a bunch of other people...and God knows where their mouths have been. Seriously... Oh, and expect top 40's music up and through the last decade.
This place is frat-tastic. It appears that this is the holy temple of the Greek god of fraternities, and people make Marathons from all over the tri-state region to come and pray and rejoice.
Really, I live around the block... and more people come to this neck of the woods for the Big Easy than anything else. They all share the same look of accomplishment written on their faces: that they have successfully evaded the pervasive culture that bleeds from every corner of the city, and have come home to what they know and love.
A hole...Simply a hole. Fun..but a hole.
Stumbled in here for a quick drink because I saw they had 5 beer pong (excuse me..beirut) tables. Lots of space and gives the feel of just a very laid back relaxing place where you don't have to worry about who you are with or what you look like. Friendly atmosphere and quick bar service with a tab that was pretty cheap in comparison to other places. Not much more to say. I gave an extra star because I like to find random hole in the wall bars in normal parts of town making them more accessible if you have had 'one of those days' and need 'one of those bars'. Overall I liked the bar and had nothing really bad to say as it was exactly what I was looking for.
1 extra point was given for the niche of having college football, cheap beer, beer pong and it not being crowded for a Saturday night.
Great bar for a drunken frat move - Come to this bar if you have friends visiting or just spent $250 last night at the hottest "club" in town and woke up alone. This is the perfect cure for the trendy Manhattan club blues. The women here are usually above average since this is near the upper east side(more like Harlem [ie: anything above 80th st.]) and are almost always happy to jump in a game of pong which normally means the hot chicks try to get to know you.
The music is the latest radio mix with the most mainstream of tunes plus some extra jersey shore beats for the B&T groups.
As far as the pong is concerned, the setup is great with many tables and ample space for the fun pong but the game is played quite seriously here with the rules posted on the wall for all players like the 10 commandments.
If you go here be ready to blackout since this bar can be capable of amazing nights of biblical proportions.
I come here far too often for my own good, which is about once a month. It stinks, the taps are watery, it's full of "bros", but it is ALWAYS entertaining.
It's gotta be what inspired "My New Haircut"
The college bar of new york. It supports a wheel of fun that gives people the opportunity to pay $3 to do ridiculous things like buy shots for a friend or make out with the person next to you, or drunk dial an ex. seven + beer pong tables and a full bar supports the fratastic atmosphere. If you prefer low testosterone bars, this place is not for you.
At 29 I give this place one star as I would rather not enter the bar ever again. However, at 24 and just out of grad school, it was a good place to get hammered, play beer pong and look for women of the same age or younger. If you go there, don't go there looking for an astro-physicist to befriend, go there to not remember the person you go home with's name. It doesn't try to hide the fact that it is there just to facilitate binge drinking and hooking up (proved by the ever present beer pong in the back), but, at 20-25, what else was I looking for? Now I am older and the bar no longer serves a purpose to me.
For tips when you are there, don't drink from the taps, get it in bottles. Oh yeah, make sure your tetnus shot is up to date too...
Ok - I've been here twice.
The first time with my fiancee and another couple of friends. It was around 9 on a thursday, and we turned around as soon as the mung smell hit our noses. It felt like I was back in college in a bad way - thats a *
The second time I stopped by with a college buddy in town for a couple nights from abroad. We spent 4 or 5 hours there chugging cheap bear, and playing pong. I met a few guys I wouldn't mind hanging out with again, and it brought back lots of old Frat-basement days. That one was *****
Obviously to enjoy this place, it requires a little frat-house nostalgia. It was great that we could play a couple of games of pong - but if that's not on your to-do list, I'd stay away. It smells bad, the beer is cheap, and served in plastic cups by the pitcher. Don't bring dates, or family, or nice clothes.
This place reminds me of everything bad about college frat parties. In fact, it reminds me of a frat basement. The floors are always sticky, it totally reeks of cheap booze, the fellow customers are loud and certainly love their Jets jerseys and collegiate baseball caps. Once in a while though, I need some of this in my life though. Two points for the beirut tables and the unlimited entertainment from the people watching.
well its cheap....
i feel bad giving this place anything below 3 stars but know this.. i wouldn't take my friends here unless our mission is to get shitfaced and fight frat boys.
this place is around the corner from my house, and more often than not i get 'hollered' at by the patrons of this bar when i'm coming home from the subway.
the good things about this bar are: beer pong, jello wrestling, really really cheep beers, no dress code, and DUH proximity to my doorstep.
the people are what makes it kinda trashy, and not that exciting, thus the 3 stars.
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? I do, but you won't find any sort of Nola goodness here. It's like drunken doozies off of Bourbon Street were transported here! Also transferred along with them were up some plastic cup garbage strewn all over the place, plus the sticky floors with them. I'm sorry, but painting a big hurricane drink on the wall does not help recreate the Crescent City feel. Okay, so it's got Abitas. Fine. Otherwise, a very pathetic recreation this "theme" bar makes.
We like to call this the BIG SLEAZY... nuff said. But sometimes you need a little sleaze, no? Maybe not. I once saw A.J. Soprano here. He wasn't acting - but he was flirting with the waitress and taking shots. You want to throw a bachelorette with penis necklaces? This is your place. I also ran into a big bruiser of a guy who had somehow written on his "girlfriend's" face in permanent marker. He went up to the bartender and said "this bitch needs a towel to clean her face." I looked over and saw her cheek strewn with black scrawling and I just turned away and started laughing. Just another night beer ponging and dancing it up at the Big Sleazy =)
Oh... The Big Easy, also affectionately known as The Big Sleazy. This bar is located on the Upper East Side and has been a favorite of frat boys, young-ins, and those looking for a one night stand for as long as I can remember ( or not- depending on the night). It's a typical Mardi-Gras themed bar where girls dance on the bar for beads, drinks are served in fishbowls, and newly formed "couples" can be seen "dancing out" ( my term for half making out, half dancing) to top 40, hip-hop, and 80's tunes. The big draw to this bar is the beer pong tables they offer in the back. Monday - Wednesday you'll have no trouble jumping on one but come Thursday night and the crowds, be ready to wait a few hours. A few hours at his place and you'll be singing "Take Me Home Tonight" before you know it!
Wow what can I say about this place. Do you like peer pong? If you do its a place for you. I personally think that game is a bit gross but that's just me. It's a mix between loud college kids and the mid 20s early 30s crowd trying to relive their loud and obnoxious drunk years. If you go to this place you will always have a great time. The best part is that towards the middle of the night you can expect one of the sexy bartenders to get on the bar and pour shots in your mouth. It's the greatest thing in the world. The sad thing about this place is that they no longer have fish bowls. I think i would have given this place 5 stars if they still had the fish bowls. What they do have is this pin wheel with all sorts of things that you can win. The best one is body shot and it seems to land on that particular spot a lot, i wonder why. hehe. The best time to go to this place is on a Friday or Saturday. The music is great but it's hard to sometimes dance because it can become a bit crowded. If your looking for a rowdy bar with lots of young people then this is the place to go!!
This bar is former frat boy heaven it has lots of cheap booze. Instead of wearing togas they wear sports jerseys and baseball caps.
Cool college bar. Reasonable prices. Not sure why they're so damn strict on the beer pong tables, though. When I went here for my birthday, some guy stood over our table the entire night barking orders and wouldn't let anybody near our table who wasn't involved in the game. Somehow this place made beer pong stressful and not fun at all. We actually wanted to lose just to be done with it. They do have dollar Nati Lights on Tuesdays though...
I agree with those that called it the big sleazy. Basically there are plenty of beer pong tables (somewhat gross...make sure you get your own cups). Other than that its a bunch of frat guys scouting out the chicks (definatly more guys than chicks at this place). But 20 bucks for all you can drink bud draft until 2am? Still not sure if it was worth it.
Went for $25 all-you-can-drink. That should tell you enough about the place.
went in one night late night to get a night cap on a weeknight, it was the only place serving. I asked the bartender for a beer and if there would be time to drink it and he said yes and yes. So as soon as my friend and I got out beers the manager came over and said we had to leave and we were forced out,, just dont serve me a beer next time is my answer. My next incident was being overcharged on my credit, I was charged for 2 pitchers instead of 1 and when i asked the bartender she said that "it doesnt matter because there is a $20 minimum." I was pissed, I had cash and would have used it. basically this place sucks.
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