Don't judge Malachy's on the Upper West Side bar by its cover
This bar looks like it’s had one too many.
“Clearly, the current situation looks more like a disaster zone and needs to be fixed,” said Jon Hill, who runs the Instagram handleIrish — and plenty of other — neighborhood eyes are not smiling. But Malachy’s — a fixture on West 72nd Street off Columbus Ave. since the late ’80s — is the kind of place people like “because it’s old and ugly,” insisted Mike Mishkin, owner of news site“It kind of went from dive bar to burnt down crack den, but hopefully it will look nice once they’re done renovating,” he said.Owner Theresa Kelly McCarthy explained that plans to renovate — replacing the ripped awning and adding windows that open out — were in the pipeline pre-pandemic.