3/2/2024 0 Comments Billiards bar fort greene– holy cow I looked at a map and Washington Avenue in Brooklyn has sure changed …) Many memories, fun project! I’m sure there are more I forgot … we used to go out a lot back then, now we have a garden in the country instead – and Barfly on 3rd avenue, the first bar I visited when moving to NYCĭamn! I just had a blast burning my lunch hour reliving those days on Google Maps. – Blind Tiger on Bleecker (how could I forget?) – Pound and Pence on Liberty (it was my work bar) – Dominie’s Hoek on Vernon and 49th (it’s just an odd place) Hmmm… even though I’ve moved on to Portland, OR, the bars in NYC that remember fondly in my 10 years there (that are still there and not on your list already, I think) are – and it’s a long list for all the years in my thirties … Tebeau © 2013 The Gate of Brooklyn Mugs Alehouse Tebeau © 2013 And of course, “Bar Great Harry” by J. So hit me with your suggestions (in the comments below or by email at johntebeau (at), and who knows? Your favorite just-divey-enough tavern in the wilds of Bensonhurst might make the cut and be immortalized by me and the good folks at Rizzoli.įrom the first series: “Brooklyn Inn” by J. I could name several more favorite bars of New York that I’ll probably include (The Old Town Bar, Brooklyn Ice House and Corner Bistro make the short list), but I’m going to need help, especially with the outer boroughs. Announcement from “Publisher’s Marketplace” A couple people suggested I do a book, so I talked to an agent, she liked the idea, and boom: now we have a book deal. When I exhibited them, I put little wall signs under each one, waxing poetical about why I loved these places. I drew six bars and made them into limited-edition silkscreen prints, which I’ve been showing and selling ever since. The book grew out of an art project I started a couple years ago, celebrating some of my favorite places in Brooklyn. Turning My Favorite Bars of New York Into Art What are your favorites? Lay ’em on me and they might wind up in my book which will be published by Rizzoli in 2017. I’m looking for “Great Good Places,” from the top of the Bronx, out to the far edges of Queens, and all the way down to the bottom of Staten Island. Places that are like an extension of your living room where you can hang out with friends, read a book alone, or go to for sanctuary during those trying times that New York seems to continuously dish out with an enormous dirty ladle, like a fat army mess cook with big hairy arms, dull-eyed and machine-like, a twist to his sweaty lips which says “Just take it, bub.” I’m writing and illustrating a book about favorite bars of New York - 50 of ’em - and I’m taking suggestions. John and Sunny’s Your Favorite Bars of New York: Tell Me
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |