Unfortunately, The National Underground is coming under some financial scrutiny. They are quickly losing funding and they have had to shut down 3 of their 5 locations.
Sebastian Junger: The Half King
The Half King was started in 2000 as a place to house journalists and filmmakers after their long days in studios in the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan. This bar has since closed and reopened twice, but it stayed under the same ownership. The Half King remains the premiere facilitator of journalistic freedom and cheap drinking.