How to Have a Unique Super Bowl Experience in NYC

I get it, you’re not the sportsing type perhaps, or maybe you just don’t love a bro-ey Irish pub. Here are some ways you can find the fun, without the annoyances.

Chess Place, Upper West Side 6pm-10pm: At Chaotic Good Cafe, you can forgo “the big game” and play the small game - chess! Meet up with a bunch of other nerds, and enjoy the offerings of not only chess, but board games of all kinds.

The Queer Super Bowl @ Wilka’s NYC Lower East Side, 4pm: Tuna melt special and halftime dance party!

Tailgate Party @ Boris & Horton, Lower East Side 2pm-5pm- Watch the Puppy Bowl while surrounded by good doggos at a dog friendly cafe! Snacks and soft drinks included in ticket price.

A Hip Hop Harlem Super Bowl Night: Come to the actual coolest neighborhood in NYC (I’m biased, I live here) for great dim sum style eats, and a DJ spinning jams all night long. Super Bowl happy hour will be in effect.

Threes Brewing & Badass Rescue’s Puppy Bowl Watch Party, Brooklyn 1pm-3pm: Adoptable dogs, local craft beer, AND the Puppy Bowl? Sign. Me. Up. So fun!

Bad Bunny Super Bowl Party & Afterparty, Lower East Side 5pm-11pm: Do you care ONLY about the halftime show? Me too! This bar will be playing the game on large screens all around, but the star of the show will be Bad Bunny, which is going to be incredible to hear on a great sound system! Rooftop views ALSO included here.

Dave & Buster’s Arcade Super Bowl Experience, Midtown Manhattan, 5pm-Whenever: Got kids in tow? Dave & Buster’s will be a place where you can have a goofy big blue drink, watch the kids go nuts with claw games, and see the game all at the same time.