Opened in 1854 by Irish immigrant John McSorley, McSorley’s Old Ale House stands as one of the oldest operating taverns in the United States. Patrons of this storied institution can only choose ...

Much has been written about the saloon but Joseph Mitchell’s wonderful old 1940 New Yorker essay, “The Old House at Home” remains the definitive profile, excerpted below.

McSorley’s Old Ale House | The undisputed champion of NYC drinking institutions for the frat boy in all of us.

Cheers to McSorley’s Old Ale House, which has cleaned up its act. The historic East Village bar now has an A inspection grade from the Health Department, bartender Teresa Maher de la Haba pro… ...

McSorley’s Old Ale House: An article in the Jan. 31 Section A about the literary side of McSorley’s Old Ale House, the oldest bar in New York City, said that Joseph Mitchell had written a New ...

For decades, McSorley's Old Ale House was a male-only establishment, until an ordinance in the 1970s forced the bar to let women in. In fact, CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer's picture is in ...

In September, 1979 I moved from Port Washington, Long Island, to Greenwich Village, to be a freshman at New York University. NYU in those days was not the gleaming powerhouse it is today; then, it ...

Old Town Ale House, the historic dive bar that the late film critic Roger Ebert once called “the best bar in the world that I know about,” quietly reopened Wednesday night on the North Side of ...

Matthew Maher and daughter Teresa Maher in front of McSorley’s Old Ale House in 2011. “I’m hearing from everyone that the general consensus is that he was an absolute legend,” she added.