Sin Bin

Real good neighborhood bar. Just laid back atmosphere. Very reasonably priced beers.

Dive bar. It’ll get you drunk.
Surprisingly they’ve had a few sports games playing that Baker Street didn’t, despite the wealth of TVs at the latter. I’d check Baker Street first, though– this place is kind of a dump.

Meh. This bar is ok. Just another sports bar.
It was so hot in there. I asked the bartender to open the sliding doors. That’s the only cool thing about it.
Pretty dead on a weekend.

Kick back & relax at this dive bar on 1^st avenue. Ivan the owner is a lot of fun & knows how to treat people. If you’re in the area, definitely stop by!

while this place seems like a decent spot to watch sporting events, it’s not the place you want to go to meet new people/​experience different beer/​feel revived. kinda dark, mildly depressing… it’s a fine place to grab a beer if you’re in the area and feeling frustrated by lack of dives. they have fritos available for purchase!

I stopped here while walking home recently. It’s a good little bar to grab a drink. No food menu. On Sundays they play football on the plethora of TVs and they bring in food from another near by place.

I love this place. The service is great, and the bartenders are wonderful. They have all asked for my name and introduced themselves as soon as I sat down at the bar. The owner has always made me feel welcome and comfortable. It’s my favorite bar in NYC to come to. I can sit and be creative, or talk to the other customers.
I have two favorite bars. Sin Bin in NYC and Shooter McGees in Alexandria VA.

So I was sitting in this local haunt writing a pretty rough review of another bar… then the bartender asked me flatly why I haven’t written them one… and I hate to say it but its because this place is amazing and I don’t want the Unilocal-​a-​verse cramming in here. At the same time the sarcastic Irish punk made me realize that I was doing him, the rest of the staff, and the bar at large a disservice. Yes, Nick. I’m writing you a review… god I hate giving him credit for something… but he’s the type of guy who is never too busy to chat with his customers or crack a joke… (even if they’re terrible jokes.)
So why five stars? I mean, to be quite honest the place is just a little hole in the wall. No food (although they’ll let you bring in whatever you want.) No amazing gimmick (although the video jukebox is pretty cool and if they’re not slammed they take requests.) It gets five stars because it freaking nails what it wants to be; a local Irish dive where you can always come in and the bartender and the customers will be happy to see you.
What it comes down to is the staff and the crowd. This is as much of a neighborhood bar as you could ever expect. I’d been going there for barely a week before every night bartender knew my name and knew what I drink. Maybe a week after that when I got hit by a cab I walked in and the bartender (Sean– another friendly Irishman who will never make you feel ignored… unlike Nick his jokes are decent too) dropped what he was doing to go find me a first aid kit and then followed it up with a shot.
It’s the type of place where you can go in and watch the game (the whole bar is ringed with TV’s, I’m pretty sure you can see two or more from every single seat in the house) but at the same time it’s a place that’s quiet enough so that I’ve been able to walk in with a slice of pizza and taken out my laptop to do work for a few hours (yes they have wi-​fi.)
The beer selection is solid, the liquor selection is far better than you’d expect for a local dive — one of the few places I’ve seen which carry Chopin Vodka’s Rye version… and as far as specials go, a shot and a beer will run you between 7 and 8 dollars or so. All day. Every day. Not to mention I believe it’s 2 $ to add a shot of Jim Beam to any beer. In the UES you can’t really beat that.
So yeah. There you have it. I’ve announced to the Unilocal-​a-​verse that this is the chillest local dive I’ve seen in a long time… now I’ll just cross my fingers that it doesn’t bring in any Hoboken/​Stumble Inn bro types. (If they do blame Nick and not me!)

I’ve been frequenting the Sin Bin for years now, and I must say it is my favorite bar to hang out in in Manhattan.
No, it is not the hippest bar flooded with young female models, but there is a certain beauty to this gem.
When I want the other scene I just head down to the meatpacking district.
After you’ve come in a few times it begins to feel like the living room you never had. The staff is extremely friendly and courteous. Shout to Nick, Ivan, Sean, Johnny, Conor, Angelica. The Sin Bin staff genuinely cares about their customers, and they never forget names.
It’s truly a great place to watch sports. They have a bunch of TVs, and they actually play the sound from the game as opposed to other bars playing Pitbull during critical moments. The fans there also actually CARE about the games they came to watch, so its always a welcoming and warm experience.
**NFL Sundays they have free wings, and they’re really good actually**
Truly not a bad spot to take a girl for drinks either. You can actually talk, and again the staff is so inviting and friendly.
No shady people here which is a ++
It’s also a great place to have a drink before you go out, or to have a night cap or two at the end of an epic evening.
Sin Bin also has a random factor to it; can’t tell you how many times I came in at nights and stumbled across beautiful women.
It’s also a really, really clean place. I know for fact they have a pro cleaning staff in every morning.
BYOF — bring your own food here so pretty amazing considering all the options on Seamless these days.
Anyway, bout to hop in the shower and meet a friend at the Bin now. Gotta go!
Cheers,
J
GO USA !!

Adequate for a drink after work on Friday. They have a decent happy hour on boring beers and well-​drinks. You can also get a DogFish 60 Minutes, but this is not a bar you visit to read the taps.
The patrons were male-​heavy and split pretty evenly between drunk and lonely. It was a little dark but not too loud, so you can manage a conversation.

What you see is what you get. I think dives deserve their own Unilocal category because it’s not fair to hold them against the same rating scale as other, more fine tuned places. That being said– the staff is nice, drinks are reasonable, and it’s a great local watering hole. Could I see myself making it my entire Saturday night? Not sure. Could I see myself having a night cap here on a Wednesday with friends and accidentally getting drunk? Absolutely. Leave all attitudes at the door. Just bask in the divey-​ness and enjoy!

Came in for the late night Happy Hour (1 am to 4am) and was pleased to find I’d the same idea as the dancers from nearby Sapphire. Nice, approachable Draught selection. Bar tender was talkative and kept me in my seat and bought me my fourth. Will definitely be back…

Why does this place have so few stars? I come here every now and then with my friends (who have become friendly with the bartenders) and we always sit in the booth in the back and have a great time!

Quiet bar in the area, good spot to watch games or catch up with a friend.
BYOFood! There aren’t a lot of food options in the area so pick up something on your way.

My Cheers in Manhattan. Always can get a drink and always can be entertained. My fave in the city!

I want to like this bar, I really do — but I don’t. It’s super close to my apartment and has ice cold draft beers. Should be a win but just isn’t. The regulars are pretty off putting, bartenders only talk to the regulars — which are mostly sad and semi-​creepy. The regulars are so territorial that it fills like you wandered into someone’s living room and ordered a beer and they hate you but are too polite to ask you to leave so they just seethe quietly until you get the message and leave. So awkward.
PS the same 5 people are always there when I stop on — regardless of day or time. I wouldn’t be surprised if they live there. The place would be so much better if they could either clear out the regulars or make an effort to welcome other customers.

I’m sorry Sin Bin. But you suck, dude. Real Hard! I’ve been here a few times with coworkers. Their choice not mine. I wanted to give you a good review just because my friend likes you but I don’t care anymore.
Every time I’ve been here. I’ve been over charged, had to be borderline impolite to get a drink order in, and had to protect a friend from being harassed by some drunk hick (yes in Manhattan) (yes in midtown east).
Its clearly a locals joint, and y’all can keep it. I’m out. This place is the definition of why I don’t like going to small drunk bars back home.
I hate one star ratings. Its bad Karma — but when it smells like ish… probably is.

Small little quasi dive bar along 1^st Ave. just a block away from the 59^th St. /​Queensboro Bridge. There are a couple TVs behind the bar and a few standing tables with stools and high booth seats. The front door panels open to let in the cool breeze.
The crowd is odd, even questionable, with people ranging in their young 20’s to skeevy older clientele. It’s not a very mingling bar. You come here with your group of friends to grab cheap drinks.
Happy hour has some nice specials with domestic beers at $ 5 as well as a slew of other specials. Even after hours, when we had come around 12 AM, beers are fairly cheap costing around $ 6 /​pint, albeit a little flat. When I dropped a $ 5 tip for 5 beers, the bartender seemed more than appreciative.

The owner of this place is dishonest and disrespectful to women.
They were part of a St Paddy’s bar crawl that had specific specials that you could get if you bought a ticket to the bar crawl. At 2pm, when the bar was crowded, because of the bar crawl, the owner decided to stop honoring discounts and started charging $ 7 for 10 ounce beers. BUT, he didn’t tell people and would force people to pay after his bartenders had already ordered the beer. Think about that, 100 ounces of beer for $ 70!
THEN, when a girl in our group asked the owner why their prices had changed from what was advertised he told her to «get the fuck out of her bar», grabbed her arm, and pushed her out of the bar. So, not only is the honor dishonest and happy to pull a bait and switch on his customers, but he thinks it’s okay to put his hands on sober women who are asking reasonable questions.

As an upstanding citizen, a veritable paragon of virtue, I should’ve known better than to walk into a place called The Sin Bin.
Although on the surface this might seem like your average, run-​of-​the-​mill Irish bar might where Magic Hat is the most adventurous offering on tap, don’t be fooled. The seemingly friendly smile the bartender gives you is masking a soul of pure evil. When she’s not serving drinks quickly and efficiently, she’s facilitating the debaucherous activities of her downright evil clientele.
If you are offended easily, avert your eyes from the depraved middle-​aged women reading the Post. Do your best to resist screaming, «PERVERT!» at the guy sipping a Bud Light and watching soccer on TV. As for the older gentleman doing a crossword and alternating between his glass of white wine and soup out of Tupperware; for gods’ sakes sir, what would your grandchildren think?
I had to go to a strip club immediately afterward in order to feel clean again.