Lower Manhattan

A working 19th century print shop run by the South Street Seaport Museum, with the presses in the back and what they print for sale at the front. You do not need a museum ticket to walk in. Most of the stock is paper goods set and printed on the premises.

Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

Tacos and fried catfish with frozen margaritas, in a small corner spot decorated with plastic seahorses. The kitchen runs a separate late-night menu after dinner service ends, which almost nothing else around the Seaport does. It opens at 11:30am on weekdays, so it also works as a plate before an early show.

Monday to Friday, 11:30am until late. Saturday and Sunday, 11am until late. Happy hour weekdays 3pm to 6pm

A corner bar on Beekman Street that serves the people who live in the Seaport rather than the people photographing it. Beer and cocktails with a short food menu, and a happy hour that runs four hours every day. The 2am close on Thursday and Friday is the latest thing standing on these blocks.

Monday, 4pm to midnight. Tuesday and Wednesday, 4pm to 1am. Thursday and Friday, 4pm to 2am. Saturday, 1pm to 2am. Sunday, 1pm to midnight

Beer comes in styrofoam cups the size of a pitcher and the ceiling is covered in neckties and bras left by customers. It started under the Brooklyn Bridge ramp and moved a block to 228 Front Street, keeping the fryer and the prices. Fried clams and a cup of Bud is most of the menu.

Monday to Friday, 8am to midnight. Saturday, 10am to midnight. Sunday, noon to midnight

A pub on Cedar Street a block south of the World Trade Center, covered wall to ceiling in shoulder patches left by the fire and police departments that sent people here after September 11. It was buried in dust that day and reopened the following year. Pints and bar food, and the patches are the whole decor.

Monday to Friday, 11am to 1am. Saturday, 11am to midnight. Sunday, noon to 1am

The chapel at Broadway and Fulton went up in 1766 and is the oldest public building still in continuous use in Manhattan. It stands under a hundred yards from where the towers fell and came through undamaged, then spent nine months as the place recovery workers slept and ate. The pew scarred by their equipment is still inside, along with a cross forged from World Trade Center steel.

Open to the public 8:30am to 6pm on weekdays and Saturday, Sunday until 4:30pm. There is a security check at the door

A Japanese bakery on Murray Street run by the family behind the Takahachi sushi restaurants, selling curry bread and matcha pastries alongside drip coffee at a counter. Most of the trade is people carrying a bag back to a desk. There are a few seats by the window if you want to sit with it.

Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 6pm. Saturday, 9am to 6pm. Closed Sunday

An acre of lawn and planting sitting a level above Water Street, reached by an escalator tucked beside the entrance to an office tower. Almost nobody finds it who has not been told it is there. The east end looks out at the harbor and the Brooklyn Bridge, and it is legally required to stay open to the public.

May 1 to September 30, 7am to 10pm. October 1 to April 30, 8am to 8pm. It may be closed for events up to twelve days a year, with notice posted at the entrances

A bar on the ground floor of the Meyer's Hotel building at Peck Slip, with a long wooden counter that has been serving this corner of the waterfront since the 1870s. Hurricane Sandy flooded the block and closed it, and it came back. Happy hour runs 4pm to 7pm Wednesday through Saturday.

Wednesday and Thursday, 4pm to 11pm, kitchen closing 10pm. Friday and Saturday, 4pm to midnight, kitchen closing 11pm. Lunch Friday noon to 3pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

The pub that anchors Stone Street, the cobbled block where the Financial District does its drinking outdoors. Tables run down the middle of the street in warm weather and the bar keeps going until 4am every day of the year. It has been there since 2003 and the crowd turns over from office workers to whoever is still out.

Monday, 4pm to 4am. Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 4am