Over 25? Finnerty's $2 pints of Bud/Bud Light and a few blocks' proximity to a couple of NYU's 14th St. dormitories guarantees that you're going to be the oldest person here on a Thursday night - the kids don't usually have class on Fridays. It's a no-name bar amongst a city of millions, and tough to describe without a flatline ''It's okay.''

Dark, loud as fuck and not the kind of place you'd linger if your group of friends weren't ordering another round of Lemon Drops.

Pluses are that it's an inoffensive place to liquor up before a show at Irving Plaza, and close enough to a strip of by-the-slice joints that you'll never be wanting for a hangover snack at 2AM.

• dark
• cheap beer
• college-age
• loud