What I like about this place is that it is pretty fun and really cheap but at the same time it seems like a place that people go to because they like the scene. This means that you can bring a date there and pretend that you aren't just trying to spend as little money as possible, but instead because you want to introduce her to something new. read more

Somehow always end up here for a drink or two after hitting up nitehawk. Young hipster crowd but not much pretension. Decent beer selection and nude photo hunt in the back. Good times. Will be back. read more

I'm really upset that I've missed the free snack food in my two trips here. Oh well, that just gives me an excuse to go back! Its got a great vibe, and everyone is really relaxed and having a good time. It was a first time in a while that I had enough fun to stay out till 4am when the bar closed. Despite breaking my "nothing good ever happens after 2am" rule, I had a great time and plan on making it a reliable spot. read more

Great neighborhood bar. Great taps, cheap food, amazing jukebox. Cool crowd, though it got pretty packed on Saturday night. Definitely the sort of place you can meet random people and easily become a regular.. And dogs. Did I mention the dogs? They allow dogs. So great. read more

Free cheese balls, free twizzlers, cheap drinks, outdoor seating area. I am very happy.

This is the greatest place ever. They carry Sofia (champagne in a can) which instantly makes me happy. The bartenders and patrons alike were incredibly nice, and they have a whole mess of board games (including Apples to Apples). The 'specials' are hilarious, I mean "Texas 2-Step" for cheap is a shot of tequila and a Lone Star, I'm a Texan and I didn't even know Lone Star existed in New York, in fact I had heard otherwise from Tex-pats. I had a Sofia and a "Dreamsicle" (Stoli Vanilla with orange soda) and then pretty much the best bar experience of my New York trip here. read more

I think geographically this is the closest bar to my apartment which makes it my "local." I don't come here often because the crowd during the day resembles an AA meeting after party and the crowd at night is a track-bike hipster fiasco but they have good beer and yummy snacks. You can't deny a bowl of cheese balls and how eloquently it pairs with a jack&coke. They also have lots of board games though most of them only have half of the pieces you need to play. read more

Love The Levee! Went yesterday, second time visiting this bar and the energy was great. Good mix of people and music (rock/metal/old school rap). The bartenders are great, I went to the bathroom and apparently some drunken creep was harassing my friend. The bartender was kind enough to keep an eye on my friend and told the guy to back off. He kept her company until I came back. Super nice. Both bartenders were very attentive and kind. Definitely visiting again. First bar I've felt safe and comfortable in. read more

I go here when I want to forget the years of bad decisions I've made while simultaneously adding to them.

Holy shit, forget it, I'm not going anywhere else. You'll find me sitting at the bar with a Lone Star and a Bulleit neat, occasionally eating a frito pie or chili cheese dog. In fact, I'm there now. read more

God, I love this place. Great selection of drinks, coozies on the PBRs, a decent jukebox, cheesepuffs, and Jenga. Not to mention my poison of choice, the Texas Two Step - A bottle of Lonestar and a shot of crappy (but in a good way?) tequila for $5. Top it all off with a Frito Pie and I'm in alcohol-soaked, artery-clogged heaven. An unpretentious bar with a great back story (look up Kokie's), I usually try to steer the group I'm with to the Levee during Williamsburg drinking nights. read more

free cheese poofs & twizzlers at the bar, and...(wait for it) free blow pops too!! *swoon* and one of my all time favorite arcade video games: deer hunter! hahahaha read more

I love this place. Great location. Pool tables and darts. Outside area to hang out / smoke / sit and chill. Cheap prices on beers. Beer and shot specials always available. They have bar food and free cheese balls, super tight place. Connect 4 outside is also radical read more

My friends and I ended up stumbling into The Levee after some we drank to our liver's content at Biergarten (as you can see the night wasn't over). Inside was a mix of williamsburg hipster underage drinkers and some pretty cool people. Put that together with cheap drinks, boards games, pool, chess, a hunting game, FREE CHEESE BALLS, and I'm there. What I like about The Levee is there's something for everyone and the bartenders are pretty cool. Our group of drunks got bigger and bigger as the night progressed and we ended up eating some euro-trash truck out (Food Truck Outside The place). Not a bad set of people come here either. My friend lost her Id and a dude looked for her for about an hour and returned it to her. All and All I will be returning here read more

Best bar in Williamsburg although it has a growing douchebag contingent spilling over from the beer garden across the street and all the new condos. This place still thinks poor people should have the same rights as rich people when it comes to getting drunk. Don't go in if you like wearing pastel colored polo shirts, think 7 dollars for a beer is a fair price or are in any way anally retentive. read more

A dive bar! I didn't have any expectations upon coming here and I was glad for it. A selection of relative unknown brews scribbled on the wall is sure to strike your fancy, or not? Oh, and while you're at it, Be sure to ask for the cheesy poofs! You'll have a great time.... or not, it depends on the company you keep, right? Can you really beat the sportsman specials at $4 for a shot and a beer? read more

Not a bad spot although there always seems to be some guy there wearing spectacles and a baseball cap at a stupid angle on his head. Not sure if he's a barman, but he's the world's biggest dbag. read more

In a nutshell, The Levee is a grungy, dark, crowded uber-hipster dive bar. While it's perhaps a bit more tame than it was when it was called Kokie's (after the, er, pastimes of its patrons more than for anyone's name...) your feet will stick to the floor,you will wait in a long line to use the grimy bathroom, , you will shout nonsense at your friends over very loud music, you will play pool with drunk strangers, you will run into someone you made out with at The Annex five years ago when you were still at NYU and using your cousin's old ID, you will play Jenga, you will drunkenly order frito pie and cheese balls, you will rub up against dozens of undernourished dirty-haired trust fund babies, and you will get very, very drunk for very little money. If this is your thing, it's totally awesome. I somehow find myself here like every weekend -- either there or at Daddy's, which is a pretty similar experience. If you can fight your way to the bar, order a "beam cream" - jim beam and cream soda, way better than your'e expecting - or a Sportsman, which is... some cheap beer (in a cozy, yes) and a shot of whiskey, for $4. read more

I'm pretty shameless about my love for this bar. The cheap beer + shot specials may be what lured me (and most others) in the first place, but I stayed for the free cheesy balls (FREE CHEESY BALLS, YES YOU READ IT RIGHT), old school board games, and what I'm pretty sure is my favorite jukebox in Brooklyn. Salt N Pepa? Yes, please. read more

This is the ultimate dive bar and I'm so honored that it's in my hood. When you don't feel like dressing up or waiting on stupid lines just to get in...come here. I love the outdoor patio during this time of the year because everyone is out enjoying all the free cheese-balls, blow pops, twizzlers and the board games. Only problem during the summer is the B.O is somewhat intensified but who cares when the shots are only $4.00! read more

Wanna seem like you're ballin out of control, well trick all of your friends into coming to williamsburg and buy them drinks like there's no tomorrow. Cans of black label are only $2 and for $2 more you can get whiskey with them. There's cheese balls for free, frito pie is $4 and more than worth it, a pool table, connect 4, jenga (best played as strip jenga), a jukebox (real not digital), pinball, and darts. Plus if you aren't crazy and have less than 2 friends you can get out of here for less than $20 bucks. Basically it's designed so that anyone, barring the comatose and dead, can have fun. read more

This place is amazing! Friendly bartenders, games, buck hunter, great (albeit loud) music, friendly folks. It's less hipster than most bars in the area and more welcoming for the rest of the world that doesn't live in the Willyburg bubble. Cheese puffs to snack on are like crack and make this place so so great. read more

Great bar- friendly staff, cheap drinks, pool table, dart board, jukebox, backyard! Love the free cheese balls and fun cocktails. Come in early for the pool table. Music is on point and the crowd is rad. read more

Such a fun place, popped in the last few times we were in NYC. Love the jukebox, fun staff & most def the connect 4 in the backyard. Easy going crowd and a great place to stop in or round off a long day - would recommend read more

I've never really cared for this place. I'm always surprised when my friends say "So I was at the Levee today".. my natural reaction is 'really? why?!' I've gone there several times over the years and have yet to see the magic. Sure, it's quaint that they serve free bowls of stale cheeses puffs, but I guess that's not enough for me. The best way I can describe it is that it's like a movie set of an old man/dive bar that tourists go to look at. And hipsters. It LOOKS like an old man/dive bar, but it's crammed full of people trying to be cool. I'd rather hang out with old men. read more

Absolutely love this place! Drinks are good and the life size connect 4 in the outdoor area rocks!

An A-OK joint to hang and grab some beer. The food is fun although not the healthiest - but I get that is not the point! The cheese balls are definitely a plus. Overall not too bad a place - may be worth grabbing a brew if in the area. Cheap beer, good service, good crowd sums it up for me. read more

I'm such a sucker for free bar food and inexpensive drinks. Though it's only Cheezpuffs, The Levee carries a wide selection of booze and creative drink combinations. The prices won't get any better. Great neighborhood bar to grab a drink during the weekdays but definitely not recommended on the weekends as it gets ridiculously crowded. They make it known right from the outside that they're all about BOOZE, BEER, POOL and DOGS, yea that's right you can bring your pup in while you drink the night away! read more

Cheap High Life. Gatoritas. Good music. Free snacks! And if you want something fancy, you just walk across the street to the beer garden. Awesome. read more

My favorite dive in Brooklyn! Cheap beers and free cheese puffs?!?! These are my kind of people

I've been going here for the past four years... that alone should speak volumes. I've also dragged everyone I know here. It's hard to say if it's the cheese puffs or the fact that I can get a beer for a $1 during happy hour that keeps me coming back. let's not forget the PhotoHunt machine and the darts!! Scrabble, pinball machine, pool table, jenga, free twizzlers, a REAL jukebox.. and now they just opened up the patio. This is the bar I would open if I had the money.. and the one I still go to even after moving from Greenpoint to the asscrack of Brooklyn (1 hr train ride..) The clientele is hard to lump... i don't mind the hip kids as much as I mind the random bridge and tunnel teens that pop up every so often. But, still, THE BEST! read more

The drinks are cheap here, but no cheaper than other bars in the area. They have lots of games, like Jenga and Buck Hunter, perfect for the hipster kidults who seem to populate this place. Kinda corny and gimmicky; free cheeseballs? Free cheeseballs, indeed. read more

it's a dive bar, in the truest sense in willie. cheap drinks. good tasting bad for you food. crust punks with dogs. big buck hunt. nice folks. the bathrooms are gross, but what do you expect in a dive bar? read more

Went on a Friday night. It was absolutely packed but I had a lot of fun. They have a special called The Sportsman. It's a can of black label and a shot of Evan Williams for $4. You can't beat that. The music was pretty much all groove metal. Pretty hipster but rad. read more

The service started out very pleasant and was amazing. After 10 min I went to the bar and asked one of the bartenders for a drink and the response, " I'm busy, I'm not gonna serve you." As a paying customer, who never was rude, I don't appreciate this treatment. A simple I'm doing something else would have worked. read more

Great prices and a chill vibe. A couple of cool beer and a shot combos. Plus, they put out free cheese balls in a bowl!

Best dive bar in the neighborhood! Free cheesy poofs, cheap drinks, old school games like Jenga, Candyland & Connect 4 plus you can bring your dog - how awesome is that?! The bartenders are cool, the music is rockin heavy metal, the place smells rank, but hey, that's what makes it a dive, right?! read more

I would and will never go back to this place. The bartenders were atrocious and extremely rude. I waited on the side that we were sitting for a long while and then went to the other side to find them chatting and looking at their phones. It was super crowded so it didn't make sense. Then, when I finally placed my order, which I had a long list for our table, he would run away before I could finish and proceed to yell at me and give me attitude for not telling him in its entirety....There is nothing redeeming enough about this place to ignore what a horrible and not so fun place this is! read more

One word: SPORTSMAN. $4 for a Carling Black Label (in a beer cozy, duh) and a shot of Evan Williams. There is just no way you can beat that. And if whiskey ain't your jam you've got the Fratboy (bottle of Bud & shot of Jager) or the Texas Two Step (bottle of Lone Star $ shot of tequila) for $5. I've made the mistake often of mixing all three in larger quantities in the same night, but separate and controlled they are good friends. The vibe in this bar is like no other. There's a few meatheads who wander in here and there but for the most part everyone's just friendly and there to get drunk and enjoy where they are. Killer jukebox (this is important to me) and the most divine frito pie in town. Grab a Sportsman, grab the Jenga and meet me at the big table by Buck Hunter. read more

I like this bar but there is a dodgy step in from the smoking area and i tripped over it as you wouldnt really see it so that might want to be something they check out and i love the cheese balls read more