Upstairs American Bar and Grill Over Broadway in Manhattan

The Heights sits one flight up from Broadway in Morningside Heights, where tall arched windows pour afternoon light across exposed brick and worn wood tables. A long bar runs the back wall, taps lined up under warm pendants, with a black and white mural anchoring the room. The kitchen keeps things unfussy and American, sending out burgers stacked with bacon and hand cut fries, plates of three soft tacos, and bowls loaded with guacamole, black beans, and pico. The corner stools at the bar face straight out over Broadway, a front row seat on the neighborhood between bites. Regulars from the Columbia blocks have kept this room busy for years, and the crowd rates it 4.2 across more than 800 visits.