Smalls

If music is your thing, Smalls is your place. This West Village basement hideout is perfect for a solo date, offering retro jazz as well as up-and-comers' takes on contemporary flare. Cozy into your barstool and let the saxophone take over you while you dream fondly of the days of yore, that you're probably too young to really even dream correctly about. The space of Smalls takes you out of the New York of today and back to a New York that suburban people would call sinful - roaring jazz and liquor flowing, it certainly sounds like our kind of city escape.

Smalls, 183 W 10th St.

[Photo via @melanieiglesias

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