Cronin & Phelan's

You have to push through two sets of creaky swinging doors to make it inside of Cronin and Phelan’s, an Astoria pub that’s been around in some form since 1902. The namesake owners sold the place in 1990, but, with its tin ceiling and antique registers, the bar doesn’t seem to have changed much over the past half century. You can, however, enjoy the modern luxury of flat-screen TVs (roughly 20 of them) as you drink some cheap whiskey and listen to Rangers fans applaud every goal. Should you get hungry, there’s an extensive menu of typical bar food and Irish specialties, which we once heard a bartender describe as "nothing fancy" and "very decent." But they were being modest. The shepherd’s pie is as good as it is enormous.

If you want, you can watch three games at once.photo credit: Alex Staniloff