Hank’s Saloon
46 3rd Ave at Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn
By day, it’s a rough-looking, rundown, flame-painted biker
bar with a craggy cast of regulars that could scare Bukowski straight. But by
night… well, actually, it’s about the same, but with more people, and live
music. Every Sunday (Sunday! Sunday!) night, house band
Sean Kershaw and the New
Jack Ramblers belch out upbeat country classics to a backdrop of free
hamburgers, dancin’ cuties, and random insanity, while the Lovely and Talented
Daria dishes out $2 beer to Brooklyn’s most nefarious assortment of country-lovin’
drunks. Don’t let the honky sounds fool you—this place attracts all kinds:
white, black, old, young, punk,
bluegrass, crazy and crazier.
In one recent Sunday night at Hank’s, I saw pair of local b-boys get down on the floor and breakdance to an old-time honky-tonk jam while nubile hipster girls guzzled cans of Pabst through a beer bong. It don’t get any more mixed-up—or better—than this, folks. After Sunday, you’re on your own, as, depending on the time and night, the place is either hopping with live rock bands or takes on a decidedly Tourette Syndrome vibe.
phone: 718-625-8003