East Village

A plain corner bar at Avenue A and 2nd, open since 1985 in a building that went up in the late 1860s as the Teutonia Savings Bank. The ground-floor windows run nearly the full height of the wall. Upstairs is a lounge called Old Flings. Berlin, the music venue, is the basement of the same building.

Daily 2pm to 4am

Isaac Kaufman opened this used record shop on East 6th Street in 1996 and it has not moved since. The bins are deep on soul and disco, and the dance twelve-inches keep turning over. It is a minute from the Drom door.

Mon to Sat, noon to 8pm. Sunday hours not confirmed

An espresso counter on East 7th Street that has been going since 2007 and roasts what it pours. The olive oil cake comes out of the oven in the morning and goes fast. There is standing at the counter and not much seating behind it.

Mon to Thu, 8am to 8pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to 10pm. Sun, 9am to 6pm

A kosher dairy counter that opened on Second Avenue in 1938, when this block was the Yiddish theater district. Soup comes with challah baked on the premises. There are about a dozen stools along the counter and no table service.

Tue to Sun, 7am to 11pm. Closed Monday

Open since 1958 and named for the colors of the Ukrainian flag, still run by the founding family. Faded murals of the Ukrainian countryside on the walls, a pool table at the back and a jukebox. Drinks are among the cheapest left on this side of the neighborhood. Cards work, but the bar runs no tabs.

Reported from late afternoon until 4am, not confirmed by the operator

Adela Vargas opened this counter on Avenue C in 1976 and her family runs it now. Rotisserie chicken with rice is the order and very little on the menu goes past twenty dollars. Cash only, and you bring your own drink.

Daily, 11am to 9pm

The New York branch of the Las Vegas bar, on Avenue A since 2006 and twenty years old in 2026. Punk on the jukebox and no cover at the door, ever. It shut for two weeks in 2024 to be filmed in and went straight back to normal. The Ass Juice shot is ordered once.

Reported open from mid-afternoon until 4am, not confirmed by the operator

Opened in August 2012 in the old Joe's Bar, which closed when its proprietor died. The people behind Mona's and Sophie's took it on, refinished the bar, and put the checkerboard floor and the wallpaper back in their original patterns rather than choosing new ones. Pool table and a jukebox.

Reported evenings into the early hours, not confirmed by the operator

Frank Prisinzano opened this wood-oven pizzeria in January 2002, after Frank on Second Avenue, and later took the space next door. There is a garden out back. East Village Radio broadcasts from a street-level studio at number 21, the same owner and the next door along, with the DJs visible through the window.

Sun to Thu, 11am to 2am. Fri and Sat, 11am to 4am

Lucien Bahaj came from Morocco and opened this French bistro on First Avenue in 1998. He died in 2019 and his son Zac runs it now. The menu holds escargots de bourgogne, moules mariniere and a Marseille-style bouillabaisse. Jonas Mekas and Dash Snow were among the regulars over the years.

Daily to midnight, and to 1am Thursday to Saturday. Listings post a 10am open and the operator's own page still says noon, so treat the morning as unconfirmed

Lucy Mickevicius took the bar over in December 1987 and ran it on her own terms until an eviction closed it in 2024. It reopened in March 2025 under Golden Age Hospitality with the ceiling soundproofed, the bathrooms made accessible and a new jukebox put in, and the rest of the character left alone.

Daily 5pm to 4am

Open at 15 East 7th Street since 1854, and it still sells one thing, its own ale, light or dark, two mugs at a time. Sawdust on the floor and cash in the till. No reservations, and there is no way around the door.

Mon to Sat, 11am to 1am. Sun, noon to 1am

Tiki crossed with rock and roll, open on 14th Street since 2002. The windowless back part runs live music most nights, rockabilly through surf and garage, and burlesque and open mics on other evenings. Piña coladas come out on fire. Totem mugs cost thirty dollars and the novelty glassware carries a deposit.

Reported open from 4pm with Monday closed, not confirmed by the operator

A counter on East 1st Street that has fed cab drivers for more than twenty years, ladling a few vegetarian dishes over rice for a handful of dollars. You point at what you want. It shut for several weeks over a plumbing problem and reopened in January 2026.

Daily, 8am to 10pm

Ray Alvarez has run this storefront across from Tompkins Square Park since 1974. It is a few feet deep, the egg creams and the beignets are what to order, and it does not close.

Open 24 hours

Also called Lys Mykyta, Ukrainian for sly fox, and licensed as Karpaty Pub. Narrow and dark, with squeaky seats facing a television and a few booths behind them. Shots run about four dollars. The kitchen next door will send pierogi over until 10:30pm.

Tuesday to Saturday from 6pm, closed Sunday and Monday

A pool table and cheap drafts have kept this East 5th Street bar useful. EV Grieve began in December 2007 as Sophie's Bar Blog, written to document the closing of this bar and Mona's after Page Six reported both were for sale. Neither one closed, and Rich Corton and Kirk Marcoe took Sophie's over in 2008.

Daily, 2:30pm to 4am

A narrow front bar on First Avenue with a rear alcove and a yard behind it, every surface layered in graffiti and stickers. It opened on St Marks Place in 1979 and moved here soon after, sat empty for years, and was brought back in 2008. The doors open at 10am.

Daily 10am to 4am

Scribbled-over walls, shelves of books nobody reads, a jukebox, and a projector at the back running B-movies on a loop with the sound down. It has held this end of Avenue A since the early nineties. Dark and cheap and loud.

Reported open from midday until 4am, not confirmed by the operator

Ten and a half acres between Avenue A and Avenue B, and the center of gravity for everything on this stretch. The elm near the middle is where the first Hare Krishna chanting outside India took place in 1966. It stays open until one in the morning.

Daily, 6am to 1am

Inside the Ukrainian National Home on Second Avenue, in a building that traces back to around 1830 and has been a private house, a YMCA and the Stuyvesant Casino along the way. Pierogi, stuffed cabbage, borscht and roast pork, run largely unchanged for more than fifty years.

Monday to Friday 4pm to 10pm, Saturday and Sunday noon to 10pm

Antonio Veniero opened this pasticceria on East 11th Street in September 1894 and the pastry case still runs the length of the front. Cannoli are filled to order and you can sit down with an espresso behind the counter. They stop seating half an hour before close.

Sun to Thu, 8am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to 11pm

A Ukrainian counter and restaurant on Second Avenue since 1954, run by the third generation of the same family. Pierogi and borscht go out all day and the kitchen runs through the night again on weekends. It brought back round-the-clock Friday and Saturday service in April 2026.

Mon to Thu, 9am to midnight. Sun, 8am to 11pm. Around the clock on Friday and Saturday

A 1926 building that opened as the Yiddish Art Theatre, with a Star of David set into the domed ceiling and Moorish plasterwork around it. It has shown films since 1992 and both the interior and the exterior were designated city landmarks in 1993. Seven screens now, and the largest one is the original auditorium.

Roughly daily, 11am to 10pm, with screening times setting the day