Fireball 500

Before

0.1 mi · 1 min walk - Downtown Brooklyn

Forty counters in the basement of City Point, including Katz's Delicatessen's only Brooklyn outpost and Fletcher's for burnt ends and cornbread. You order at whichever window you want and eat at the communal tables in the middle. It is open to 10pm every day, which makes it the widest set of options within three minutes of Brooklyn Paramount.

After

Long walk · 0.6 mi · 12 min walk; 2 min ride - Gowanus

A corner bar at Hoyt and Bergen inside the Boerum Hill Historic District, with a carved mahogany back bar, a pressed tin ceiling and a pool table through the arch at the back. There is no food, no television and no music loud enough to shout over. It is cash only, which is the fastest way to tell how little has changed.