Gridskipper

This popular Lower East Side dive takes strips from their photobooth and posts them online. I'm not so sure that's a good thing, but based on the pictures currently on their site, it seems like Lakeside is filled… with naked chicks and tolerant of smoking. For folks not into smoking and loose women, free wifi and an above average beer list are other enticements found at this lounge. [link]

Bubby's isn't strictly a bar, but you might just want to come here for drinks and take advantage of their basement photobooth rather than sitting down for a meal. Their cuisine and service have hit or miss reputations,… and their Brooklyn branch was closed back in March for a bevy of health code violations, including rat sightings. Still, none of that should stop you from using this as your go-to spot in Lower Manhattan for getting trashed and photographed. [link]

The close proximity to both the G and L trains isn't the only thing about this bar that helps you indulge your hipster side while knocking back a few brews. The walls are covered in kitsch, and their backyard features… an "ironic" minigolf course complete with obstacles fashioned from old cans of PBR. If you throw yourself a party and bring in 15 or more guests, your drinks are on them, which is an incredible incentive to get your friends together for group shots in the photobooth. [link]

Every summer, Coney Island is filled with tattooed weirdos and unashamedly authentic residents from the deepest, darkest corners of Brooklyn. While not a bar, it's still one of my favorite places to get shitfaced… in New York due to the unbeatable people watching and the abundance of stands on the boardwalk that sell cheap beer and greasy beach fare. There are several different photobooths under the Wonder Wheel, including an old school original model and those sticker machines that are all the rage amongst teenage Asian girls. [link]

Niagara has a reputation for serving stiff drinks, loud rock and roll, and for being a sausage fest. There are multiple floors, so you can stumble around gawking at the odd mix of bridge-and-tunnel refugees and… NYU kids that pack this place each weekend in between your drunken photo sessions. It's fun to challenge your friends to see who can be the first to get some pink-shirted frat boys to do something homoerotic for the camera (an average game should last less than six minutes). [link]

Japanese scenesters, rockabilly types, and other devotees of mid-century barcana flock to Otto's for the "authentic" tiki décor and impressive menu of themed cocktails. As part of the South Pacific fun, drinks… come served in totem-faced mugs that you can take home by leaving behind a $5 deposit. [link]

Even if you hate the hipsters, dealing with the typically Williamsburg crowd is a fair price of admission for their sweet back patio. $3 will get you a photostrip here, which seems to be the going rate in Brooklyn.… Pics cost a dollar more everywhere in Manhattan (except for Bubby's, which is $3, and Dave & Buster's, where they employ a convoluted ticketing system that ends up being more expensive). [link]

Pruning Time Out's photobooth list of all the non-alcoholic selections eliminated most of the places no one should ever go (like the Astor Place K-Mart and the Manhattan Mall), but Dave & Buster's does… serve drinks, so there was no getting rid of it. This may be one of their top picks, but it is not one of mine. Dave & Buster's is an example of everything I hate about Times Square. It's an overpriced national chain filled with tourists, awful fast food, sloppily drunken i-bankers, and epilepsy inducing light displays. If you want to get wasted and hit up a cool arcade, go to Coney Island or head to Mott Street and visit that place where they used to have the "World Famous Dancing & Tic Tac Toe Chicken" before the animal rights people got all whiny about it (they don't have booze there, but you can get Tsingtao and wine cheaply across the street at Wo Hop, which happens to be one of the best Chinese restaurants ever). [link]