Meet at Bridge Cafe
279 Water St.
Saturday, October 2, 4:00
Pay as you go, including $10 cocktail specials
www.19thcpubcrawl.com
There’s room for only fifty people at the New York 19th Century Pub Crawl, which begins Saturday at 4:00 at the Bridge Cafe, a onetime brothel that is the oldest continuous drinking establishment in the city and where pub crawlers will start off with an Old Fashioned, ten-year-old Glen Grant, and specially prepared hors d’oeuvres. The drinking tour will continue with a history talk at Swift Hibernian Lounge with Bowmore 12 Year Old, the original Cock-Tail, and mini-sausages, followed by Glenrothes 1998 at Rye House and stops at the venerable institutions the Old Town and Pete’s Tavern. Advance RSVP and nineteenth-century dress are strongly suggested for this unique evening of old-fashioned fun, where pub crawlers will learn plenty about scotch as well as Jonathan Swift, O. Henry, and East Village history.