MANHATTAN — New Yorkers have anxiously been counting down the days until kickoff. But now that the Super Bowl is just about here, where do you plan to watch?
Here are some places where Big Blue die-hards can gather to cheer on their team as it goes for its second Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots in five years.
Upper East Side
Gael Pub
1465 Third Ave., 212-517-4141
Every time the Giants score a touchdown, fans score a free shot at this Upper East Side bar. It's $35 for all the Miller Lite you can gulp down plus a plate of wings.
Meatpacking District
La Gazzetta
55 Gansevoort St.; (212) 924-5559
Football fans in search of an alternative to the sports bar scene can head to the Italian hot spot La Gazzetta, in the Meatpacking District. The Euro-style cafe will play the game on a big screen and serve up Italian sausage and pepper sandwiches and $35 buckets of beer.
Midtown
Slattery’s Midtown Pub
8 E. 36th St.; (212) 683-6444
Fans can pay $50 for top-shelf open bar service for the entire game, which also includes a combination of appetizers, ranging from hot wings to potato skins. Slattery, which is currently taking reservations, will be showing the game on its 16 plasma TVs.
Financial District
Fraunces Tavern Museum
54 Pearl St.; (212) 968-1776
Fans can choose from 22 beers on tap and drink all they want for $50 as they watch the Giants hopefully sack Tom Brady on the bar’s 80-inch projector screen. They can also snack on chicken fingers and nachos, as well as several other tasty offerings.
Hell’s Kitchen
Social Bar
795 8th Ave.; (212) 459-0643
For $50 in advance or $70 at the door, patrons can meet and receive autographs from three members of the 1986 Super Bowl team, Andy Headen, Byron Hunt and Curtis McGriff. They can also enter a raffle to win a Hakeem Nicks autographed jersey and cheer on Big Blue from the dozens of screens scattered across Social Bar’s two floors.
Washington Heights
Coogans
4015 Broadway; (212) 928-1234
With its eight flat-screens TVs, this Washington Heights bar is the perfect place to watch the big game in upper Manhattan. Coogans will be raffling off T-shirts, key chains and likely a snowboard as fans sip on one its five different beers on tap.
East Village
The 13th Step
149 2nd Ave.; (212) 228-8020
The biggest bar in the East Village is offering patrons 14 bottled beers and 14 beers on tap, all half-priced, as it does every Sunday. Giants fans can buy pitchers for $7 and watch the game on any of 32 different TVs with surround sound.
Inwood
Locksmith Wine & Burger Bar
4463 Broadway; (212) 304-9463
Giants fans can buy wings for 25 cents, pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon for $10 and buckets of Bud Light for $15 as they watch the game on the bar’s three flat-screens, including one that’s 52 inches. Locksmith offers seven different beers on tap.
Upper West Side
Henry's
2745 Broadway and West 105th; (212) 866-0600
Henry's restaurant puts aside its usual menu of bistro fare and serves up a football feast of wings, pizza, meatballs, burgers and chocolate cake — and, of course, cold beer. There's a football pool, and one guest will win a free dinner at Henry's.
