Nassau Bar — Restaurant in New York

I’m a professor of women’s studies at a nearby university. My husband was in the city with our car and we decided to drop in here after a long day’s work before going home. We thought this was going to be a quaint spot. What I observed seemed completely off. I looked it up and it looks like it’s classified as a bikini bar.

The bartenders wear midriffs and very short shorts. One had ‘daisy duke’ style jean shorts on and another tight spandex shorts. Far too revealing and uncomfortable for a bar. The place reminded me of my days as a PhD candidate, over 15 years ago.

We did a two-year study examining the cause and effect of female bartenders in the service industry, across various types of establishments.

The problem with these bikini bars is two-fold: There is a subtle ambiguity where the women legitimize it by convincing themselves that they work in a ‘regular’ bar. Or regular enough. And for customers, which are mainly male and was also the case here, they legitimize patronizing these establishments in a similar manner; they’re in a ‘regular’ bar and not in a go-go bar, and feel no guilt. Whether married or single.

The women who work in these bars, over time, develop a loyalty to the managers and/or owners and it becomes similar to a cult. Where the owner is the cult of personality. There is a tendency for elements of Stockholm Syndrome to also be present, our studies found. After time, the women who work in these bars simply accept and normalize not only the behavior of the manager and owners, but also the behavior of the men who frequent them.

The women begin to desensitize themselves to a point where they are relegated to this type of male-dominated environment, where words such as ‘baby’ and ‘sweetheart’ referring to them becomes the norm. This is a very SAFE PLACE for...

Found my new favorite NYC bar and can’t wait to stop by again. I was staying at The Beekman March 28-31 and was sort of disappointed to learn The Beekman had no NA beers at the bar or restaurant, only mock tails.

I walked around Downtown, and looked for my very first NYC bar, The Patriot Bar or Bar Patriot or whatever near WTC. It was closed! As soon as I walked into Nassau Bar though on my way back to the hotel, I knew I found the spot.

Haley was my bartender every night serving up Heineken 0.0s, and even showed genuine concern and was about to prevent me jumping off the wagon when I joked and ordered a Jack and Coke before saying I was kidding. She told me lots of Patriot Bar refugees frequent the bar, makes total sense. It was nice and chill during the day and got busy, but definitely not too busy during the weeknights I was in town. She and all the bartenders there are great and I trust them to keep me sober (last time I was in NYC 4 years ago was the last time I relapsed on alcohol… sober 3+ years now and Nassau Bar kept it going ODAAT).

The owner was great too, letting us patrons bring out drinks outside while we had a smoke on the table outside. If I wanted to make friends I’d buy a pizza at Joes down the street and post up at that table with some drinks and smokes.

Best bar...

Pretty gross place. Weird atmosphere but the liquor is watered down to the point where I can’t taste my liquor. I know my alcohol. Can’t believe there are people who have been going there for years with watered down liquor. If you go here be wary of what you buy and stick to beer bottles since they can’t tamper with those...

UPDATE: As you can see the owner replied to my review and my statement is true. I even made a statement about my alcohol not tasting right and the owner/manager (not sure) told the bartender to give me an extra shot free of charge. Clearly he knew it was watered down hence why he instructed the bartender to serve us more because we caught on. I gain nothing from lying and go there if you’d like, I’m just telling you my experience. The person I was with had Hennessy which was extremely light in color so that confirmed our theory.

Also hitler also had a loyal following so that...