Drinking excellent Beers, Wines and Spirits. Interesting Conversation. Good Books and Good Writing. Movies. Hanging with Friends.
Music
Rock and Roll. Soul. Rhythm and Blues. Punk. Jazz. Vocal Standards.
Movies
The Searchers. On The Waterfront. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. North By Northwest. The Hustler. The Leopard. Last Tango in Paris. Out of the Past. Mean Streets. Godfather 1&2. Spaghetti Westerns. Anchorman. Talladega Nights. Unforgiven. Kiss Me Stupid. Some Came Running. The Verdict. Nightmare Alley. Casablanca. Hitchcock. John Cassavetes. Billy Wilder. John Ford. Howard Hawks. Sam Fuller. William Wellman. King of Comedy. Supersize Me. Naked Kiss. All Godzilla. Abbott & Costello. The Ref. Pride and Glory. Cool Hand Luke. The Hustler. The Great Silence. The Dollars Trilogy. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. Werner Herzog. Fassbinder. Sergio Corbucci.
Television
Deadwood. Rome. Sopranos. Brotherhood. Boston Legal. Baseball Tonight. Star Trek'66. Rescue Me. SCTV. Seinfeld. Curb Your Enthusiasm. Sanford & Son. Abbott & Costello Show. Three's Company. Magilla Gorilla. Good Times. All in the Family. The Honeymooners. Odd Couple. The Munsters. 30 Days. Don Kirschner's Rock Concert. The Midnight Special.
Books
Everything by Nick Tosches. The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris. Jazz Singing by Will Friedwald. Punk Magazine. Shakespeare. Flannery O'Connor. James Jones. Richard Yates. Hemingway. Blood Meridian. Dermot McEvoy. Instant Love by Jami Attenberg. Dante. Faulkner. Fitzgerald. Pete Hamill. James Ellroy. Horace McCoy. Jim Thompson. Charles Willeford. Raymond Chandler. Archie Bunker's America by Josh Ozersky. John Holmstrom.
Heroes
Dean Martin. Marlon Brando. Robert Mitchum. Humphrey Bogart. Frank Sinatra. Elvis. Rolling Stones. Al Swearingen. Ray Charles. Clint Eastwood. Nick Tosches. Richard Yates. Hemingway. Faulkner. Ella Fitzgerald. Jerry Lee Lewis. Jackie Gleason. John Ford. Howard Hawks. Jean Renoir. Duke Ellington. James Cagney. Burt Lancaster. Al Green. Elia Kazan. James Stewart. Johnny Carson. Johnny Mercer. John Cassavetes. Bobby Darin. Errol Flynn. Gary Cooper. Lee Marvin. Bobby Darin. James Brown. Count Basie. Cary Grant. Philthy Phil McCune. Johnny Thunders.
About me: The perfect place to have a gathering of friends or a comfortable date. We are a cocktail lounge and garden in Manhatan's East Village. We just celebrated our 10th Birthday on August 28th. Lots of fun and smart neighborhood regulars and an excellent place to come to meet friends, have a good conversation or pre-dinner cocktail before you go to one of the excellent restaurants near us. Our business hours are Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays 6pm until 4am. Thursday through Sunday 4pm till 4am. We have one of the greatest Happy Hours in New York, 2 for 1 per person on most items till 10pm Monday through Thursday and from 4pm till 8pm on Fridays.
In the Winter Months we feature Readings, Guest DJ's on Tuesdays and Live Acoustic Music as well as being a perfect spot for Birthday Parties and such. If you're interested, please contact us by phone, email or at our great new website Boxcarlounge.com
In the fall/winter season our Garden is heated which makes it very comfortable and toasty in chilly weather as low as 40 degrees.
Who I'd like to meet: Good People with a sense of humor who bring something to the Table...
Will be bringing something to the table - well, the bar - very very soon. Myself. Am finally making my way back to the hallowed ground that is boxcar :)
All of us at PUNK Magazine are looking forward to hanging out at the Boxcar Lounge again very soon. It's as comfortable than our living room.
It's one of the best bars left in the East Village, our home for many years.
And The Boxcar Lounge is one of those precious few places left in this overly commercial world that keeps the spirit of NYC's East Village alive. It's a little sliver of NYC fringe culture (which goes back many decades to the punks, the hippies, the beatniks, and the Bohemians before them) that is still around... So see go see it soon!
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