Drinks in West Village

Often called the oldest continuously operating gay bar in New York, and the site of the April 1966 Sip-In that established the right of gay customers to be served in a licensed bar. A griddle behind the bar turns out burgers all night. The floor is sawdust and the walls are covered in photographs nobody has taken down.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to 2am. Fri, 4pm to 4am. Sat, noon to 4am. Sun, noon to 2am

A dark bar on Christopher Street with darts and an old Ms. Pac-Man cabinet, plus couches people sit on for hours. It is the Green Bay Packers bar in New York, which on a Sunday in autumn means the place is full of Wisconsin accents by noon. The rest of the week it is quiet and cheap.

Listings disagree. One posts noon to 4am seven days; another posts 3pm to 4am on weekdays and 2pm to 4am on weekends. The 4am close is consistent across both

A basement bar on Grove Street where a piano player works through show tunes and the whole place sings along, whether or not you know the words. Drinks are cheap and the crowd is a mix of Broadway people and anyone who wandered down the steps. It runs until 4am every night of the week.

Every day, 4pm to 4am

Open on the Hudson Street corner since 1880, with the carved horse heads and the long dark bar still in place. Dylan Thomas drank his last here and the tavern has never once stopped mentioning it. It changed hands in 2019 and the fittings, the layout and the beer-and-a-shot pricing survived the handover.

Mon to Wed, noon to midnight. Thu to Sat, noon to about 3:30am. Sun, 11am to midnight