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New York City, New York
Upper East Side piano bar since 1979: live music, singing waitstaff, no cover nightly
Brandy's Piano Bar has anchored a quiet Yorkville block on East 84th Street since 1979, when a gay couple took it over and turned it into the Upper East Side's queer living room — a lifeline for its regulars and performers through the AIDS years, and one of the few gay bars this far north of Midtown. The format hasn't changed much: a singing waitstaff of working cabaret and Broadway performers trades off show tunes and standards nightly, and the crowd is expected to sing along. It's deliberately small and old-school — no big parties, no bottle service, no cover (a two-drink minimum instead). Strangers who walked in separately tend to be harmonizing on Sondheim by midnight. If you've done the downtown piano bars and want the version with neighborhood-institution patina, it's worth the trip uptown.
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