Don't judge a book by its cover - or a pub by its incredibly run down facade.
This was the second of the pubs in this area I'd been sort-of avoiding; but after no problems in the first (The Auld Triangle), I decided to go to the second.
This is quite an old pub; and part of the poor public presentation of it comes from the building it is in having been truncated quite significantly, presumably due to past structural issues. As you can see from the photo, it has also had its New York related name for some time - although it has had other names in the intervening period. So the name is not part of the recent drive to name absolutely everything after NY!
There is actually quite a well presented traditional pub behind that facade, and quite large too - it goes back a fair distance from the street, including a large glass roofed section. There was a security guard sitting at the bar (rather than blocking the door); which may be down to some past incidents, but this didn't detract from the experience.
On the same side of the road as this, there are two quite nicely decorated pubs. One of them was so amazingly interesting it got a two-line writeup. This was vastly more worth going to
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