Welcome to the Johnsons Review

April 26, 2002 Rivington Street Pub Crawl: Welcome to the Johnsons (Ludlow/Essex). Beloved by many for its $1.50 happy hour Pabst Blue Ribbon special (served from the fridge), this bar-cum-'70s-rec-room may be the best bar on the entire LES. In honor of MBS's return to NYC, we recall our favorite Johnson's story from his visit last December. We're sitting at the bar shooting the shit. Strike up conversation with two guys sitting next to us. After some time passes, one guy pulls something out of his pocket. "Check this out." Hands it to us. A phone bill from MCI. Amount owed: $144,000. Footnote: it wasn't a misprint.