Metropolitan

Came on a Friday night — it was packed, crowd skewed in the late 20s age range.
Drinks are cheaper, we paid $ 6 for what was on draft.
Dark and dingy-​feeling.

Williamsburg could really use a nice gay bar… this isn’t it. The place is a dump. I guess it’s a good haunt for 20 something hipsters that are looking to mingle with themselves. The place smells like a 4 year old dirty bar towel, your feet stick to the floor, and the bathrooms are the most disgusting thing on the planet. The only upside is that they do have an outdoor space. Oh let’s not forget the disgusting plastic furniture thrown in front of the gas fire place. Cute.

Heterosexually gentrified. Some gay guys but mostly young straight ambiguous hipster crowd. Cool vibe and reasonable drinks — worth a visit if you’re looking for a cheap chill night.

Came on a Thursday night and it wasn’t crowded at all, which is a good or a bad thing depending on what you’re looking for.
$ 4 drafts all night, which includes some of their top brand beers.
No one was really dancing or doing anything besides hanging out. Dance floor is for the taking. These 2 guys were really dancing it up. I wonder who they are and if you can contact them via Unilocal… oh, hey…

i literally left the bar because some guy started screaming and bickering at me while inebriating (bartender) telling me that i was not first. i came into the bar out of town to get a drink and the guy attended a caucasian hipster while i was waiting for a few minutes before him. this is the first time i experience racism. and i assume metropolitan’s clientele caters towards white hipster gentrifiers. being out of town I WILL NEVER GO THER AGAIN. I actually was planning on meeting friends there but i will tell ALL my network never to go there again based on racist hipster gay ambiance.

I’ve been here a few times. They have BBQ on Sundays at five. The DJ (DJ Madonnavon) is awesome. I love the black walls sprinkled with glitter. They have a big back yard for chillin. Great air conditioning and WiFi. But my big problem is the bathrooms. They have separate men’s and women’s rooms but there are no locks on the doors and so you have to hold the door shut while doing your thing and guys won’t even check to see if there is anyone in the stall, they will just push the door open. I know no locks on doors is fairly common in gay bars but for some reason these bathrooms are more difficult to handle.

Your best option if you need to hit up a gay bar in Northern BK. GOOD outdoor terrace and cute guys if you’re into the hipster movement. Liquor is not too expensive. Things don’t get started until 11pm FYI.
TIP — I know this bar is divey, but the bathrooms are absurdly gross. Pee before you arrive or hold it until you get home.

This place smells so bad, sweaty and nasty. The music was ok but Me and my friends couldn’t handle the bad smell so we left and will never go back there for sure.

Like a lot of the reviews say, the unpleasant scent of urine in the bathroom is crazy! Needs to be cleaned up more! The music is like Wierd to me so that’s another negative and the drinks are so so… It’s really the only gay bar I’ve found in williamsburg besides sugar land which is another no go, but I’d rather go to the village and bar hop there! I don’t think I’d come back

Tuesdaysssssss! best day to come, drinks are cheap. I had a blast at this place, came at 11pm left at 4am. I did karaōke with my friends and mingled with everyone. The lady at the door is a bit of a debbie downer though.

I like it, it smells a little uriney. .. but it’s always a good time.

Consider me an unlikely fan. My boyfriend and I had some time to kill before dinner last Friday and ended up here for happy hour. When we walked in around 5ish, the place was absolutely dead. For a solid 30 – 45 minutes I’d say, it was just us and the bartender. It wasn’t a big deal — we just wanted to chill but it definitely seemed a little odd for a bar that supposedly opened at 3. It picked up a little bit before we left around 7:30 but it was still a very small crowd.
I couldn’t stand the music they played. «Shitty hipster music» is the only way I can describe it. The worst song we heard was actually pretty good (pleasant jazz) until a miserable-​sounding woman suddenly started doing her best dying Christina Aguilera impression. Even the bartender had to turn that one off.
So why is this place four stars? By New York standards, drinks are dirt cheap, especially for happy hour. Two for one Bud Lites at just $ 4? I’ll definitely take that. Even though it was a little strange, the lack of a crowd actually served our purposes well (we just wanted to sit and chat over beer for a short period of time). Also, bad taste in music notwithstanding, our bartender was great and very friendly. If we ever return to do dinner in the area and have some time to kill, we’ll definitely be back.

As we are all aware, the word ‘Metropolitan’ comes from the Greek ‘metro’ meaning ‘black the hell out on $ 3 PBRs’ and ‘politas’ meaning ‘bearded gay hipsters’. But despite the ancient Greek origins of this bar’s name, there is little to no Greek wrestling at this establishment. I have voiced these concerns to the management multiple times but they did not waste many years of their lives studying ancient Greek as others have, and so can not possibly understand my consternation or abject sense of entitlement.
I would recommend weeing (or as the British say «having tea in the Lou») before you come here, because the bathroom appears to be taken from the set of Buffalo Bill’s house in Silence of the Lambs. I wouldn’t recommend putting the lotion in the basket, let alone on your face or even your nether world regions. I’m just Josh-​Hartnet-​ing ya, there is no lotion in the bathrooms ;)
Metropolitan is cheap, dark, multi-​lingual and most importantly, not LoveGun. Just like me!
p. s. Unilocal doesn’t allow characters in reviews (stifling, right), and I have no idea how to make a wiener symbol out of standard letters but it was implied in several parts of this review.

This is my 500^th review. And it is dedicated to probably my number one Unilocal fan, aside from Finny Gowen-​Gerace, TH — who really made the magic of this write-​up happen. Like all things, my heart forgets how much I love New York if I spend too much time away — and as medical school is a demanding mistress, it had been at least 3y since I’d taken a proper spin in the city.
Thus, when the opportunity presented itself to have a glorious evening somewhere in Brooklyn w a bunch of Wellesley gals, lezbehonest, obviously a trip was a go — and given that the night began this way, it might be surprising that I ended up surrounded by what felt like every gay male hipster in the vicinity of Williamsburg — but do I regret it? No. And while I’m not the target demog for Metropolitan, it’s actually pretty fun regardless of the gender of your sexual partner of choice.
On a Sat night around midnight, which is when I deigned to make an appearance, the bar was mobbed w bearded men in skinnies and someone was pumping some synth pop hard — make an escape to the outdoor back patio for your sanity/​to avoid getting Fireball shots sloshed on you. Avoid the bathroom if you value not feeling as though you need to exfoliate your body asap. Excellent ppl watching — and if you’re looking to cruise, you will absolutely be able to tap something tonight — crowd is attractive and friendlier than expected.
Drinks are cheap and bartenders are pretty pleasant, esp given the smoosh of people lining up to get drizunk and make questionable choices. Not a bad place to spend the hours btwn 12−2a. Oh, and they have skee-​ball. Eff yes.

The drinks aren’t pricey, which is great. With each drink, they gave us a ticket for free BBQ outside, which included either a free burger or hotdog. The cheeseburgers were pretty decent and by giving a ticket per drink, you wouldn’t get completely plastered if you wanted to stay on the safe side.
The staff members are super nice and the bartender was awesome.
The inside is dark but there is a pool table and some arcade games like Pacman.
Outdoors was really cute but sadly, it had been raining so it was just wet every where and muggy. Inside, it was sort of on the cold side.
The major downfall is those bathrooms are small and just smell.
It was alright and the staff were awesome but not sure if I’d rush back.

Sunday is the best time to visit metro, in the summer, with 8 dollar pitchers of bud and bud light you can’t go wrong. The best part of every Sunday at metropolitan is the free BBQ with every purchase of any alcoholic beverage. Bring some friends and if you plan on hanging-​out of a while, bring cards or a board game to keep the fun level up.

OK so I know it’s a contrived dive bar, not the real deal, but hey it’s not nearly as stylized as the usual way-​too-​self-​conscious Williamsburg hipster haunts.
That said, it does attract a lot of beards (of the long variety the hipsters are rockin’ at the moment, think the Hasidic Jew /​Amish look!) and inked cool kids wearing loafers with no socks.
The main draw here (I’ve only ever been there in summer on visits to NYC) is the outside deck and the Sunday barbecues, which are a blast! Great music, beer promotions (with nice IPAs and microbrews) and friendly Brooklynites… most of whom, despite the alternative, fashion-​conscious crowd… were entirely attitude-​free and kinda hot!

I’ve been here a few times, and it’s totally worth the trip from where I live in Prospect Heights.
The DJ is usually pretty great on Fridays — he played some 80s and 90s music and the hipsters were living for it! Lots of dancing by midnight.
The atmosphere is really chill. No judgements whatsoever. The crowd is mostly flannel-​wearing hipsters. It’s a grungy type of gay bar — old furniture, smells like spilt beers, and looks like a basement.
Drinks are well-​priced. It’s really a fun spot. Even writing this with a hangover, I have nothing but good things to say about it.

I ended up here randomly and had a lot of fun. They play great music. I have no idea how much the drinks cost here, but I had a couple. And they have a pool table.
Overall atmosphere was lively and fun.

All my New Yorker buddies texted this place first as a quick response to
«what’s the gay bar in Williamsburg?»
It’s away and alone and scruffy but inside had some retro grunge appeal — (how billy burg.). $ 15 credit card minimum, cute young boys and in back, a huge outdoor patio.
Very casual with a splash of Indy.
Around 11:30pm the patio became very crowded with lots of plaid, shaggy hair, some muscle and some leg.