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O'Connor's

O'Connor's

39 5th Ave.

Brooklyn, NY 11217

718-783-9721

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Back in my active musician days, I looked for four things in a bar: cheap drinks, not too crowded, great jukebox, no live music (after two hours of drilling your ears out in some aspirin-box of a rehearsal studio, another band is just not what you want to hear). That combination used to be pretty common in the East Village (the Park Inn!), before the neighborhood became a theme park for dotcommies. Not anymore. Thank Allah, therefore, for O'Connor's, where the drinks are really cheap ($2.50 well drinks and Rolling Rocks) and the jukebox isn't just great, it's amazing (courtesy of Spike the bartender—a musician himself, of course). Bonus: It's really, really dark.

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