<p>I'm a student starting in the fall and I just setup shop here in NYC. I'm looking for stuff to do in Morningside Heights (walking distance from CU) on the weeknights. I'm 21 so drinking is definitely a consideration, but drinking alone warrants an alcoholic status, what are the most interesting places to just hang out at/around campus?</p>
<p>The best bars in the neighborhood are probably Toast up on ~124th & broadway, and 1020, on 110th and amsterdam. Village Pourhouse has everything you could want except patrons, that’ll probably change in their 2nd year of operation. That location is a little cursed, though, for anyone who remembers Roadhouse, um, Mona.</p>
<p>My personal favorite watering holes in the neighborhood are Toast and Abbey Pub, on 105th. The latter because I’m partial to belgian wheat beers.</p>
<p>You’re not drinking alone if you go to the bar to make friends.</p>
<p>Aside from bars, other cool hangouts include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hungarian Pastry Shop, 110th & amsterdam</li>
<li>South lawn / Low plaza / the Steps, even before the students get back</li>
<li>Smoke, on 105th and broadway, has good live jazz shows in the evenings</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also:</p>
<ul>
<li>Venture beyond to the upper west side. Symphony Space on 95th & broadway, Zabar’s on 80th, Natural History Museum on 81st and CPW, </li>
<li>Go to Riverside Park and enjoy the walk down by the piers. There is a [summer</a> concert series](<a href=“http://www.fohrp.org/events_and_programs/clinton_concert_series.aspx]summer”>http://www.fohrp.org/events_and_programs/clinton_concert_series.aspx) on the pier at 65th st</li>
<li>Or central park, play some pickup softball (north meadow), frisbee or soccer (dust bowl at 99th and 5th), or just fish (harlem meer).</li>
<li>Harlem Lanes bowling at 125th & 7th (adam clayton powell)</li>
<li>Don’t forget there are Yankees and Mets games several times a week, the US Open coming to town, etc.</li>
<li>[NYC</a> Century bike tour](<a href=“http://nyccentury.org/]NYC”>http://nyccentury.org/)?</li>
</ul>
<p>Worst case, you can find me at McAleer’s on 80th and amsterdam a couple evenings a week for happy hour. My company’s cheap. :D</p>