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Cheap Shots is another breath of stale air in a neighborhood practically floating on it thanks to Doc Holliday’s, Lucy’s, and Coyote Ugly. But build another balls-out dive bar with rock-bottom drink specials and the masses will come. Strategically positioned across from a life-saving pizza joint, Cheap Shots is all about shots, domestic pints, PBRs and whiskeys. A former meat products store, the space retains its plywood floors, and the graffiti-ed walls make it feel like it has been around since the dawn of SoCo and lime. Specials like “Rock-Paper-Scissors Tuesdays” (half-priced drinks all night if you beat the bartender) bring in beer drinkers and hell raisers from Tompkins Square Park to the Upper East Side. But it’s the diversions that keep them hooting and hollering: a black light air hockey table, an mp3 jukebox with over 200,000 songs, board games like Connect Four and a chalked-up darts room where the meat locker used to be. Birthday boys and girls drink for free all night. The rest of the year, most folks here drink until they forget what day they were born. — Daniel Maurer

Half-priced drinks all night if you beat the bartender.