This is a shocker to me, because every time I went to Cheap Shots as an underaged girl, there was a bouncer outside checking id's.

So you want to get paid for being an idiot with shitty friends?

Ok folks, seriously. When you have a bar that offers pitchers of beer for $6.50 in the East Village next to another one that offers PINTS for the same price, why are you bitching about its existence? The pretension of a $9 martini has enveloped the East Village, but at least there have been places like Cheap Shots to take refuge. It's all an inevitable part of gentrification, and I'm really sick of the contradiction between one side that says "if you are too poor for the East Village then get the hell out" and the other side that says "you yuppie bastards have priced us out so we're going to call you all twats". Enough already. Cheap Shots was good for what it was. A cheap bar in a good location to get your drink on. Now where the hell can I go for $6.50 pitchers? Plus this will only make The Continental more doucheified/ packed.

good riddance to a horrible, horrible establishment.

All the whining about the loss of real NY. What else is real: dog crap in streets? I won't miss it if it goes away. Drunks peeing in streets? I wouldn't miss it. Stiflingly hot subway platforms? I wouldn't miss them. Y'see, son, change is good. Quality of life is allowed to improve.

Good riddance. I hate fake dives.

And people who think that bar was around forever obviously haven't been around very long.

Now please take out Coyote Ugly too.

If you don't like Coyote Ugly, just don't go there.

So many of you "tolerant" New Yorkers have this tyrannical urge to eliminate anything you just don't happen to like.

This place hasn't been nearly as fun since they cleaned it up last year, anyway. This is the best thing that could have happened.

Why do you pinheads equate a shithole with "real NYC?" Bars don't need to be ankle deep in backed-up sewage to be legit.

I got so drunk at Cheap Shots on my 22nd birthday drinking free red bull and vodkas that I passed out in the bar, passed out in the bathroom, and had to be dragged outside by a group of friends to get a cab. The only problem was that none of my friends wanted to stop drinking long enough to take me home... so instead they checked me into Beth Israel and left me there alone.

Where's my $10K?

Wow your friends and self control suck

There were two versions of Cheapshots, under the old ownership. There was the NYU frat boy obnoxious hell-hole of the late evenings, and the "local friendly" daytime, early evenings bar.

The social group that was formed there over it's first few years resulted in fishing trips, local BBQs, great Superbowl events (where all the regulars cooked something, and a huge buffet was laid out on the airhockey table), regular movie afternoons, "turn the jukebox off Jeopardy's on" and the like. The old owners were big supporters of the neighborhood arts groups, providing them with ice, cups and help for opening night events, as well as discounts for audience members and visiting theater companies.

Was it a sh*thole? Yes, but it was our sh*thole, something the new owners cared less about and now they have driven it into the ground.

Exactly.

And very well said, Ralph. Cheap Shots was, and hopefully still is, a place for drinkers. Young and old, rich and poor, local and transplant: all drank at Cheap Shots in alcohol-fueled harmony. It is not a fake dive. It was a boozer's bar. And if you think a joint like that has no place in this world, especially in a city like New York, then I suggest you get a clue and a plane ticket.

yes, you must like every single piece of shit in new york or you must leave; and if you don't like that mutated piece of 50 year-old gum on the sidewalk, la guardia is only an hour away.

hah, i'm beginning to like this "new york nazism".

so, you don't seem to like certain new york natives or their opinions, so *why don't you get the fuck out?

*i think that is the first time i've ever told anyone to get the fuck out of new york. i think i have gotten infected by people who move here. :(

That place was a S***hole. Then again, one tires of all these yuppie/hipster places that have cropped up in the East Village in the last decade.

That is absolutely no fun at all.

has anyone ever been to this place? it's the ghetto-est bar in the east village. you can probably get aids from just being there -- the ick factor of the place is way off the chart.

How do I put this politely, 3?

I hate you and wish, so sincerely wish, that you, and people like you, would move out of New York City. Please. Please go back to the suburbs where you came from and where you belong.

Crime really needs to bounce back here fast and hard to get rid of these... people. The fucking consumerist, blithely ignorant spawn of Seinfeld and Sex in the City. At least the yuppies in the eighties had, well at least they mostly stayed on the Upper West and Upper East sides. Just overall shitty people like you wandering around downtown now in the numbers that you do is so, so unfortunate. You, are so unfortunate.

RIP Cheap Shots. :-/ It was no Downtown Beirut but it did the job.

Pretty sure Manitobaś still has a machine for drunken 3am air hockey. :)

Hello Jaya Saxena ~ As far as "drunken air hockey tournament headquarters Cheap Shots"... that was pre-2009, but may have been a good description 2007 to mid-2009.

This Cheap Shots v.2.0 was under new ownership mid-last year which removed the Dynamo Photon Air Hockey table as soon as they took over. They lost a lot of business to Manitoba's where Pros and Rec players still play in the Air Hockey NYC Meetup.com group.

Top Air Hockey players in the world came to visit the old Cheap Shots ~ and many of NY State's top players came out of the tournaments there. It is this social & fun Cheap Shots that will be missed.

~ Ricochet Rosen; Commissioner - Major League Air Hockey

ah... that makes sense. the last time i was there was when i went there with a few under-aged girls and these girls knew the place b/c it was one of the places that would serve them alcohol; it was in 2008.

so my apologies to all the air-hockey players for the mis-understanding -- all i saw out of that place that night was a bar closely resembling a medieval warfare-pub.