3 Best Bars in NoLIta, New York City

This local dive bar has occupied the same corner, in various guises, since 1920, making it a true stalwart among the neighborhood's glam boutiques. Staff pour cheap well drinks and beer at all hours. It lives up to its motto—"Life is short. Drink early."—by opening at 8 am six days a week. 

This unpretentious lounge is high on the sweet factor and luckily low on the vicious attitudes, which helps explain why it's been consistently popular since it opened in 1998. There's a lovely back garden that's more private than the sceney bars you might otherwise hit in SoHo and NoLIta.

As the name suggests, Tom and Jerry's is pretty much an every-person's bar, a casual mainstay on the New York scene that caters mostly to locals who come for everything from casual afternoon beers to late-night cocktails. There's seating at the long bar or at picnic tables under the windows.