The original Pony Bar on 45th Street (at 10th Ave) has been one of the city’s go to dispensers of real craft beer since 2009, and pioneered the online and live-updating beer list (and later an app). The premise was simple: All beers are $5, American, and poured from draft or cask, with the exception of Bud and Bud Light bottles, which no one ever drank. The All American Club, for which you have to taste and rate 100 beers, and its coveted polo shirts, are a mark of true NYC beer-geekery. Cloning the place on 75th St. between First and York last year was a bit of a coup for the neighborhood. Be sure not to miss happy hour, which is only a single hour, starting at 4:20 p.m. [Yelp]