Brooklyn Safehouse

On our lists of the best speakeasies and cocktail bars in New York.

Tony Petillo, who also owns Mallard Drake up the block, runs this Franklin Street bar as a deliberate throwback: cheap domestic cans, well drinks, and a menu of cachapas for anyone who wants food with their round. The bar sits in Greenpoint, not the flashier stretch of bars nearby, and leans into that plainness rather than chasing anything dressier. Free pool and free WiFi run during the daily happy hour, and the doors stay open into the early morning most nights of the week.