Beverly’s Bar Shutters After 7 Years on Essex Street
The pink neons have gone dark, as Essex Street loses one of its cool kid hangs.
Beverly’s, the trendy art bar founded in late-2012 by Sweet Paradise veteran Leah Dixon, closed forever last week. Just shy of its eighth birthday. A leasing sign hangs awkwardly from the rolldown gate.
“We are looking reality in the face, and know that we cannot afford to keep the bar at 21 Essex any longer,” ownership admitted in a farewell Instagram post. “We have simply been shut down too long, and the exorbitant costs of having a bar in Lower Manhattan are far too expensive to pay without being able to operate at full capacity.”
The loss of Beverly’s is yet another in a purge of nightlife happening in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.