20th Annual Illini Pub Crawl

A Metro NY Illini Club tradition! This year, we'll be checking out a few of the watering holes in Alphabet City.

Still going strong after 20 years, this is a great opportunity to meet fellow NYC-area alumni.

As usual, we will visit a series of bars on an hourly schedule, and you can join anywhere along the route.  This year's crawl co-incides with the Illinois vs. North Carolina football game, so we'll have it on TV and spend an extra hour at that stop.  (Yeah, the game won't be over after 2 hours, but at that point we'll know whether we want to continue watching it, or move on to the next pub!)

Here's the schedule.  Note, we are starting half an hour earlier than usual this year, to accommodate the 7:30 kick-off time.

  4:30pm:  Kelly's,12 Avenue A, between Houston & 2nd Streets

   5:30pm:  Dorian Gray, 205 East 4th St. (between Avenues A & B)

   6:30pm:  Josie's, 520 East 6th St. (between Avenues A & B)

   7:30pm:  7B Horseshoe Bar 108 Avenue B (at 7th Street)

   8:30pm:  (still at 7B watching the Illini vs. Tarheels)

   9:30pm:  Manitoba's, 99 Avenue B (between 6th & 7th Streets)

Dorian Gray is the only bar on this year's crawl that has a kitchen, however all of the rest of them will provide you with a pile of menus from which you can order delivery to the bar.

Depending on where you plan to meet us, the closest subway stop would be either the 2nd Avenue stop on the F Train, the 8th Street stop on the N or R Trains, or the Astor Place stop on the 6 Train.

Put on your drinking cap and come on down to Alphabet City!!