Drinks in New York

The Columbia bar on the corner of 110th and Amsterdam, established in 1994 and taken over by new owners in 2024. Oak bar top, booths at the back, a pool table and a dart board. It opens at four in the afternoon and runs to four in the morning every day.

Daily, 4pm to 4am. Happy hour 4pm to 7pm

A bar at 169 East Broadway that opened in 1916 and was known for years as the Bloody Bucket. A leopard-print pool table sits under the neon and the sound system stays on seventies funk. It opens at two in the afternoon and runs until four in the morning.

Daily, 2pm to 4am. Happy hour 2pm to 7:30pm

A tavern in the old Clarksville Inn at the corner of Strawtown Road and West Nyack Road, in a building that opened as the Clarkstown Hotel in 1840 and became Knapp's Hotel in the 1850s. It was a stopover for wagon traffic and threw farewell parties for Civil War soldiers, was restored in 1957, and reopened under the current name in 2020. The bar pours from 11:30 in the morning to midnight or later, and the kitchen runs wings, burgers, steaks and pot pies until 10pm early in the week and 11pm from Thursday.

Sun to Thu, 11:30am to 12am. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 1am

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

A pool hall on 11th at Fourth Avenue with a full bar at the front and tables behind it. Pool, ping pong and darts, open to 3am every night of the week. You can take a table for an hour or sit at the bar and not take one at all. Leagues run here, so some nights a section of the floor is spoken for while the rest is walk-up.

Every day, 11am to 3am

Twenty rotating taps on lower Smith Street, open since 2007, with pinball in the back corner and a chalkboard that changes weekly. There is no kitchen, the dog next to you belongs to someone at the bar, and the staff will pour you a taste before you commit. It closes at 4am every night of the week.

Mon to Fri, 2pm to 4am. Sat and Sun, 12:30pm to 4am

Ludwig Bemelmans, who wrote Madeline, painted these walls in 1947 and took payment as a year and a half of accommodation for his family rather than a fee. It is the only Bemelmans commission left that the public can walk into. The ceiling was leafed in gold during a 2002 restoration.

Sunday and Monday noon to midnight, Tuesday to Thursday to 12:30am, Friday and Saturday to 1am

An Irish pub on the East Rutherford end of Park Avenue, directly across from the Rutherford train station, with the televisions on and fish and chips, steaks and sandwiches coming out of the kitchen. It opens at eleven in the morning and runs to two, which makes it the latest door within walking distance of downtown Rutherford. The kitchen goes until midnight.

Daily, 11am to 2am. Kitchen until midnight

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

The bar half of the Boi Na Brasa operation, on the corner where Merchant Street meets Ferry, with televisions on for Brazilian football and a grill running behind the bar. The churrascaria side is a separate door on Adams Street and keeps restaurant hours. This one does not, and on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday it is pouring until three in the morning.

Mon to Wed and Sun, 11:30am to 2am. Thu to Sat, 11:30am to 3am

A Carlstadt brewery with a bar attached, pouring its own beer and the Broad Street hard seltzers it makes alongside. It sits on a side street in the industrial grid rather than on a main street, so you are walking past loading bays to get there. It stays open to ten Thursday through Saturday, nine on Wednesday and eight at the start and end of the week.

Mon and Tue, 1pm to 8pm. Wed, noon to 9pm. Thu to Sat, noon to 10pm. Sun, noon to 8pm

A piano bar in a narrow 84th Street storefront that has worked the same way since 1979. The staff sing, the piano starts at 9:30 every night, and there is no cover, only a two drink minimum. The front bar is standing. People who came in for one drink tend to still be there an hour later. It runs until four in the morning seven nights a week.

Daily, 4pm to 4am. Piano from 9:30pm

A beer bar on West 238th with a long rotating tap list and a kitchen doing burgers and pub food from scratch. It opens at eleven every morning and runs to two on Friday and Saturday. Dogs are allowed and there is a trivia night.

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

The Stadium shadows this Gerard Avenue beer bar, open from noon every day of the week. There is a long draft list and a full kitchen. Weekday happy hour runs from four to eight. On a non-game afternoon it is quiet enough to sit and talk.

Sun to Thu, noon to midnight. Fri and Sat, noon to 2am. Happy hour Mon to Fri, 4pm to 8pm

A bar and grill on the Jamaica Bay side at the foot of the Cross Bay Bridge, with a deck over the water and boat slips off the end of it. Fish tacos, crab cakes, burgers and a raw bar, plus live music on the deck through the warm months. It trades year round, with the indoor side carrying the winter and the deck closed when it is cold.

Sun to Thu, 11:30am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 10pm, bar until midnight. Open year round

A dark bar on Third Avenue named for the waterway a block away, with a jukebox, a pool table and prices that have not tracked the neighborhood. Happy hour runs from three in the afternoon to eight, Monday through Friday. It closes at four in the morning every night of the week.

Mon to Fri, 3pm to 4am. Sat and Sun, 2pm to 4am

A wing joint on Central Park Avenue that has been going since 1955 and is the reason people in this part of Westchester argue about wings at all. The dining area is dark and cluttered and the bar runs the length of it. It serves until one in the morning most nights, which in this stretch of strip mall is close to unheard of.

Mon to Thu, 11:30am to 1am. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 2am. Sun, 12pm to 1am

A bar on the block where the Lower East Side runs into Chinatown, open until four in the morning seven days a week. Laure Travers runs it and the music leans away from whatever is on down the street. There is pâté and a few snacks if you want something with the drink.

Mon to Fri, 4:30pm to 4am. Sat and Sun, 3:30pm to 4am

A corner bar at Grand and Roebling with a jukebox that runs to rock and soul and a handful of taps. Prices have not moved much. It opens at 1pm on weekends and stays open to 4am Friday and Saturday. Nothing about it is decorated.

Mon to Thu 3pm to 2am. Fri 3pm to 4am. Sat 1pm to 4am. Sun 1pm to 2am

A traditional Irish pub on Broadway that calls itself the longest-standing one in Astoria, in a building that goes back to the start of the last century. The current owner took it over in the early 1990s and it has stayed a darts-and-regulars pub rather than being made over. The kitchen runs Irish standards and there is a back garden. It opens in the morning and holds a 4am license.

Daily, 8am to 4am

A Haitian and Jamaican kitchen on Route 59 with a lounge attached, cooking oxtail and rasta pasta and pouring cocktails alongside it. Weekend nights bring DJs and hookah and the place stays busy until closing. It opens at noon and is dark on Monday.

Tue and Wed, 12pm to 8pm. Thu, 12pm to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 12pm to 11:30pm. Sun, 12pm to 10pm. Closed Mon

A pocha out at the far end of Northern Boulevard that does not open until five in the afternoon and then stays open until four in the morning. Soju and beer are the point and the food is built to be eaten alongside them, rose tteokbokki and army stew and kimchi fried rice. On Friday and Saturday it runs to five. This is the answer to the question of where anything in Flushing is still serving at one in the morning.

Sun to Thu, 5pm to 4am. Fri and Sat, 5pm to 5am

A bar on Station Square, thirty years in the same doorway, started in 1995 by Christopher Lucien File and now run by his sister Jamie. Burgers and white wine mussels are the menu and there is a house sangria. The walls carry concert posters and band memorabilia, which makes sense given what is over the wall.

Mon to Fri, 5pm to 10pm. Sat, noon to 10:45pm. Sun, noon to 9:30pm

A cheap neighborhood bar on Bedford Avenue that is open from noon until four in the morning every day of the week. It is run by the people behind Skinny Dennis and Lucky Dog in Williamsburg. Dogs are welcome and the drinks are priced accordingly.

Daily, noon to 4am

A mezcal-leaning bar on Fulton at Classon with a large backyard and a ping-pong table in it. DJs play records inside most weekends. It takes no reservations and the yard fills up early once the weather turns.

Mon to Wed, 5pm to 1am. Thu, 5pm to 2am. Fri, 5pm to 3am. Sat, 4pm to 3am. Sun, 4pm to 1am

James Dorrian opened this on Second Avenue in 1960 and his grandson runs it now. Red checked tablecloths, burgers, a long bar, and the same family name over the door for sixty-six years. It has had more written about it than most bars on this avenue and the inside has not changed much for any of it. Open until just before four in the morning every day.

Daily, 11am to 3:45am

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

A long narrow bar under a neon harp sign on 79th Street, opened by the Caraway family in the 1920s and licensed as a pub since 1933. The front bar is where the regulars sit and there are tables at the back. Drinks are cheap by Upper West Side standards and it is open until four in the morning every night.

Daily, noon to 4am. Happy hour from noon to 7pm

The brewery's New York taproom, in a warehouse on George Street off Metropolitan. Twenty rotating taps plus cocktails, natural wine and New York State cider, with a food pop-up in the space. The weekend noon open is the useful part.

Monday to Thursday 4pm to 9pm, Friday and Saturday noon to midnight, Sunday noon to 10pm

An Irish pub that has been on the corner of First and 73rd since 1972, two doors and a crosswalk from Bohemian National Hall. Pints come across a long bar facing televisions with whatever is on. The kitchen does pub food. It is open until four in the morning every night of the week, which makes it the honest answer for anything that lets out late up here. The building was sold and a demolition clause sits in the lease, so it is worth checking the door is still there.

Daily, 11am to 4am

A taproom in a Tompkinsville warehouse with twelve of its own beers on, plus cocktails and Fort Hamilton whiskey for anyone who does not want beer. There is no kitchen, so the house policy is that you order food in from whatever is nearby and eat it at the table. Children are allowed in before 9pm and so are dogs.

Wed, 5pm to 11pm. Thu to Sat, noon to midnight. Sun, noon to 8pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

Classic horror covers this dark Woodward bar, run by Tracy Bradbury and Chad Johnson, with a kitchen that runs to 11pm. The theme is played straight enough to be funny rather than grim. Brunch on weekends from noon.

Tuesday to Thursday 5pm to 11:30pm, Friday 5pm to 1:30am, Saturday noon to 1:30am, Sunday noon to 11pm. Kitchen until 11pm, 10pm Sunday. Closed Monday

A bar and kitchen by the Long Island Rail Road station with a long wooden counter, a couple of dozen taps and burgers and wings off the kitchen. It opens at noon every day and runs to two in the morning on Friday and Saturday. The crowd is local most nights and becomes a Stadium crowd when there is a show. There are booths in the back and the televisions are on.

Sun to Wed, noon to midnight. Thu, noon to 1am. Fri and Sat, noon to 2am

Twenty-seven taps and a long bottle list on Fourth Avenue a few doors from Bergen Street, with a walled back yard of picnic tables that is open in the warm months. Bowls of popcorn sit on the bar. There is no kitchen, and it runs to 4am most nights. It is the closest late bar to Roulette by a wide margin.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to 4am. Fri, 3pm to 4am. Sat, 1pm to 4am. Sun, 1pm to 2am

A corner bar on Beekman Street that serves the people who live in the Seaport rather than the people photographing it. Beer and cocktails with a short food menu, and a happy hour that runs four hours every day. The 2am close on Thursday and Friday is the latest thing standing on these blocks.

Monday, 4pm to midnight. Tuesday and Wednesday, 4pm to 1am. Thursday and Friday, 4pm to 2am. Saturday, 1pm to 2am. Sunday, 1pm to midnight

The oldest operating gay bar in Queens, on Roosevelt Avenue since 1989, owned by Eduardo Valentin and Casimiro Villa. It has served the Latino LGBT community here for most of that time and the music and the crowd reflect that rather than anything imported from Manhattan. Happy hour runs from four in the afternoon and the door stays open until four in the morning.

Daily, 5pm to 4am. Happy hour from 4pm to 9pm

A natural wine bar five doors from Loudmouth on Marcus Garvey Boulevard, with a free pool table inside and a back garden under one big tree. There is a long communal table out there and a scatter of bistro tables. Jazz plays inside and food pop-ups turn up in the yard.

Mon to Thu, 5pm to midnight. Fri to Sun, 3pm to midnight

Third floor of 28 West 32nd, where you take a booth by the hour with a remote, a couple of microphones and a tablet of songs rather than singing to a bar. The drink order comes to you. It runs to half three in the morning on a weeknight and four on weekends, which is later than almost anything else on the block.

Mon to Thu, 6:30pm to 3:30am. Fri and Sat, 6pm to 4am. Sun, 7pm to 3am

Built in 1924 by immigrants from Gottschee, a German-speaking pocket of what is now Slovenia, and still run as a bar with a hall behind it. Imported and domestic beer at the bar. There are spirits too, with a short menu of German pub food. The front bar is the part you want.

Tuesday to Thursday 4pm to 11pm, Friday 4pm to midnight, Saturday 1pm to midnight, Sunday 1pm to 11pm. Closed Monday

A corner bar on Fremont Avenue a block off Hylan Boulevard, open from ten in the morning until four the next, seven days short of Sunday. Pool table, darts, televisions, and regulars who have been coming for years. There is no kitchen and no cover.

Mon to Sat, 10am to 4am. Sunday hours vary

A corner bar at the bottom of New Dorp Lane, down where the street runs out at the beach, open from eight in the morning until four the next. Televisions, a pool table and a kitchen putting out burgers and wings. It is the last thing open on this end of the island most nights.

Daily, 8am to 4am

A long-running gay sports bar on Eighth Avenue between 18th and 19th, with pool tables and arcade machines. Games stay on the screens. It is plain inside and the crowd is mostly regulars and the gay sports leagues whose nights it hosts. No cover, no line, and it opens at one in the afternoon on weekends.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to 2am. Fri, 4pm to 4am. Sat, 1pm to 4am. Sun, 1pm to 2am

A bar on Third Avenue at 6th Street with a pool table, a dartboard and sidewalk seats. Its own site describes it as a neighborhood bar among the gritty Gowanus industrial streets, which is accurate and also the whole pitch. The kitchen does toasted cheese sandwiches and not much more.

Mon to Fri, 4pm to 2am. Sat, 2pm to 2am. Sun, 2pm to midnight

A loosely tropical dive on Myrtle with cheap drinks and a yard out the back. It is queer-run and has been the reliable late option on this end of Myrtle for years, which matters because the Myrtle-Broadway venues do not have many.

Sunday to Wednesday 5pm to 2am, Thursday 5pm to 3am, Friday and Saturday 5pm to 3:30am

Kevin Bradford, Kim Harris and Stacey Lee opened this in June 2018 and it was the first entirely Black-owned craft beer bar in Harlem. The taps lean local and the place is small enough that you end up talking to whoever is next to you. It sits directly across Adam Clayton Powell from the Shrine.

Wed and Thu, 3pm to 11pm. Fri, 3pm to midnight. Sat, 1pm to 11pm. Sun, 1pm to 9pm. Closed Mon and Tue

A Cuban kitchen and mojito bar on East Tremont Avenue in Schuylerville, open since 2010 and busy most evenings. Ropa vieja, lechon and croquetas on the food side, rum on the other, and live music some weeks. It opens at noon and goes to two in the morning on Friday and Saturday, which makes it the latest reliable option anywhere near Westchester Square.

Mon to Thu, noon to 11pm. Fri and Sat, noon to 2am. Sun, noon to 10pm

New Orleans bar food shares the counter with beer-and-shot deals and rotating drafts at this dark Wyckoff bar. It opened in 2012 and the kitchen runs late, which is the difference between this and the pure drinking options on the same block.

Monday to Wednesday 2pm to 1am, Thursday and Friday 2pm to 2am, Saturday noon to 2am, Sunday noon to 1am. Kitchen until 11pm, midnight Friday and Saturday

A dim pub on Henry Street with a long bar, a tin ceiling and a beer list that runs to a couple of dozen taps. There is a burger and a plate of wings if you want them, and the back has a few booths. It has been on this block for nearly thirty years and nothing about it is trying to be anything.

Mon to Wed, 3pm to 12:30am. Thu, 3pm to 2am. Fri, 3pm to 4am. Sat, 1pm to 4am. Sun, 1pm to 2am

Down a staircase off Chrystie Street into a low, dark bar that has been going since 2006, with taxidermy on the walls above cheap drinks. DJs and live sets start around ten on weekend nights. It is sixty seconds from the Bowery Ballroom door.

Mon to Sat, 6pm to 4am. Sun, 8pm to 4am. Happy hour to 8:30pm on weekdays

A sake and shochu place on the Korean stretch of Northern Boulevard, built out to look like a village lane with wood and lanterns. Skewers and small plates come out all night alongside sake flights, and it keeps going until two in the morning every day of the week. Walk-ins sit at the counter.

Daily, noon to 2am

A cash-only tavern on the corner of Third and 74th, serving the same burger on the same checkered tablecloths since 1972. The bar runs most of the length of the front and is where you should aim if the tables have a wait, because they often do and there is no list to get on. Order the burger and the cottage fries. The kitchen shuts well before the bar does.

Mon to Sat, 11:30am to 3am. Sun, 11:30am to 1am. The kitchen closes earlier

A bar on Williamsbridge Road with a jukebox, a pool table that costs a dollar, bottled beer and a patio out back. It opens at half past ten in the morning and runs to four, so it covers both ends of a day in a way almost nothing else around here does. There is no kitchen, so eat before you come.

Mon to Fri, 10:30am to 4am. Weekend hours vary

Beer comes in styrofoam cups the size of a pitcher and the ceiling is covered in neckties and bras left by customers. It started under the Brooklyn Bridge ramp and moved a block to 228 Front Street, keeping the fryer and the prices. Fried clams and a cup of Bud is most of the menu.

Monday to Friday, 8am to midnight. Saturday, 10am to midnight. Sunday, noon to midnight

A narrow bar off Times Square papered floor to ceiling with fight posters. Jimmy Glenn cornered Ali. The jukebox runs soul and the pours are heavy.

Daily, roughly noon to 4am

An English pub on 76th between First and York, named for the wood that covered this part of Manhattan before the grid reached it. Fish and chips or a pie go with cask-style ales. The back garden opens when the weather allows. The front bar takes walk-ins and stays open to midnight after the kitchen has stopped. Quieter on a weekday than almost anything else on this stretch.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to midnight. Fri, noon to midnight. Sat, 10am to midnight. Sun, 10am to 11pm. The kitchen closes at 10pm

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

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

Kings County Brewers Collective brews on Troutman Street and pours it a few steps from the tanks, a couple of doors from the Bushwick Collective walls. The tap list turns over constantly. Dogs are allowed and the space absorbs a crowd without a wait.

Monday to Thursday 4pm to 11pm. Friday 3pm to midnight. Saturday noon to midnight. Sunday 1pm to 10pm.

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

Maxfield Parrish's Old King Cole was commissioned for the Knickerbocker on 42nd Street and moved here in 1932. Fernand Petiot mixed the drink he called the Red Snapper behind this bar in 1934, because the name Bloody Mary was thought too coarse for the address. Doors at 4pm.

Daily 4pm to 11pm

Kings County started distilling in 2010 and now works out of the old Paymaster Building inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with a bar in the 1896 gatehouse at the Sands Street entrance. Whiskey comes as flights or straight pours. There are cocktails, while the rest of the list stays with New York wine and beer. Bottles are for sale by the door. Production-floor tours run on select evenings and have to be booked ahead, but the bar itself is walk-in every day.

Mon to Thu, 2pm to 10pm. Fri, 2pm to midnight. Sat, noon to midnight. Sun, noon to 10pm

Frank Krug started selling burgers in 1932 and the tavern has been on the corner of Wilson Avenue and Napoleon Street since 1938. The burger is a twelve-ounce patty cooked on a flat top behind the bar and it is most of why anyone comes. It is a bar with tables rather than a restaurant, deep in the residential Ironbound.

Tue to Sat, 11am to 11pm. Closed Sun and Mon

A small tavern on Innis Street in the shadow of the Bayonne Bridge, with a bar at the front and family-style Italian-American food behind it. Platters come out for the table rather than plated per person, and it does a Sunday brunch. It has been the sit-down on this side of Port Richmond for years and the crowd is local.

Sun to Thu, 11:30am to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 11pm

A long dark storefront halfway down Mamaroneck Avenue that has been pouring since 1994, with around fifty rotating drafts and a bottle list past a hundred and fifty. The kitchen runs wings and prime burgers well past midnight. It opens at 11:30 in the morning, which means it is as available before an afternoon set as it is when a late one lets out.

Sun to Thu, 11:30am to 2am. Fri and Sat, 11:30am to 3am. Kitchen closes 11:45pm Sun to Thu and 12:45am Fri and Sat

An Irish pub on 181st Street with twelve taps, a proper spirits shelf and a kitchen that runs all day. Live music turns up a couple of times a month without anyone making an event of it. The name is Irish for together, which is roughly how the place operates.

Mon to Wed, 11am to midnight. Thu to Sun, 11am to 2am

A French tabac styled bar on the corner of Canal and Orchard, with most of the crowd standing on the sidewalk. Natural wine by the glass and a short menu built around pâté and tinned fish. It opened in the 2020s and has not tried to become anything larger since.

Mon, 3pm to midnight. Tue and Wed, 3pm to 1am. Thu and Fri, 3pm to 2am. Sat, noon to 2am. Sun, noon to midnight

The ground floor of the Hotel Chelsea, reopened after the long renovation, with the original staircase and the hanging art still in place. Drinks are made carefully and slowly and the bar is open to anybody off West 23rd Street, not just to guests. Only people staying upstairs can book a table, which in practice means the rest of the seating is first come.

Mon to Sun, 11am to 2am

Opened in 2023 and built to look like it never wasn't there. Named for the scenic artists' union local. Cheap beer and pinball, and nobody minds that you came straight from work.

Daily, afternoon to 4am

A sunny bar at the south end of Third Avenue with a planted backyard and better food than it needs to have. There is live folk on Mondays, karaoke on Wednesdays and a night where people bring records and play them. The spicy mac and cheese sandwich is the thing people order.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to 2am. Fri and Sat, 3pm to 4am. Sun, 3pm to 1am

A small dark bar on the corner of Second and Coles, a few blocks off the plaza and away from the newer buildings. There is a jukebox, a short beer list and wings, with DJs playing records on some nights. Tuesday is a singer-songwriter showcase at 8pm, so the bar sometimes has a bill of its own.

Mon to Thu, 3pm to 2am. Fri, 3pm to 3am. Sat, noon to 3am. Sun, noon to 2am

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

A small pub on 72nd Street a block from Strawberry Fields, trading under this name since 1989 and as the Blarney Castle before that. Wood bar, a few tables, televisions on for whatever is playing. It opens at noon and runs to two in the morning most nights.

Mon to Sat, noon to 2am. Sun, noon to 1am

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

A pub on Montgomery Street at the top of McGinley Square, with a long beer list, happy-hour pricing and a kitchen doing bar food. It serves the Saint Peter's crowd and the streets around it rather than anyone coming over from Manhattan. The license runs to 3am on a Friday and Saturday.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to 2am. Fri and Sat, 4pm to 3am. Sun, 1pm to 2am

Frank McGovern opened this on New Street in 1936 and it has not moved or changed its name since. It is a narrow old bar with a kitchen, a long wooden counter and a sign reading in God we trust, all others pay. On a night when downtown Newark empties out after an event, this is the place that is still serving.

Mon to Wed, 11:30am to 1:30am. Thu to Sat, 11:30am to 2:30am. Closed Sun

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

Twenty-six lanes under a low ceiling on 37th Street, family run, with a bar at the end where the bartender has worked for decades and will talk to you about the neighborhood. League nights fill the place and the rest of the time you can walk in and take a lane. Arcade cabinets along the wall, cheap pitchers, no attempt at a concept.

Mon to Thu and Sun, 9am to midnight. Fri and Sat, 9am to 1am

Open on Lorimer Street since 2002 and known locally as Metro, with a pool table and a large backyard that runs all summer. Drag and go-go nights follow a rotating schedule. Happy hour runs from 3pm to 8pm every day. It closes at 4am seven nights.

Daily, 3pm to 4am. Happy hour 3pm to 8pm

Sawdust on the floor and a wood-burning fireplace that gets lit in winter, in a bar that has stood at 287 Third Avenue since 1895. Peter O'Connell took it over in 1991 and gave it the current name. The mahogany bar is original and the Guinness pour takes as long as it should.

Every day, 11am to 4am

A tapas and wine bar at the downtown end of Ferry Street, with a bar you can stand at and a garden out the back. Plates are small and Spanish and the wine list is long. Of the Ironbound places this is the first one you reach walking east from the arena.

Tue to Thu, 11:30am to 10pm. Fri, 11:30am to 11pm. Sat, 11am to 11pm. Sun, 11am to 9pm. Closed Mon

A longshoremen's bar at the foot of Atlantic Avenue that has been run by the same family for over seventy years, from the days when it opened at 8:30am for dockworkers coming off the overnight shift. The walls are covered in ship photographs, life rings and union plaques. Karaoke runs Thursday through Saturday and it is loud and completely unserious.

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

A two-floor pub at Lispenard and West Broadway with pressed tin ceilings, a shuffleboard table upstairs and a jukebox the regulars keep feeding. It opens in the morning and does not shut until four. PUNCH calls it a holdout from the days when neighborhood pubs were everywhere down here.

Monday to Friday, 9am to 4am. Saturday, 10am to 4am. Sunday, noon to 4am

Stephen Hughes runs this taproom on Broad Street north of Military Park, brewing on site under names borrowed from the neighborhood, including a Kolsch called Lite Rail and a stout called Coal Train. It fills growlers, sells cans to carry out and lets dogs in. There is no kitchen, so people order food in and drink it at the tables.

Mon to Fri, 4pm to 10pm. Sat, 2pm to 10pm. Sun, 2pm to 8pm

A tavern on Newark Avenue that traces back to 1933, closed for a stretch and was reopened in 2008 by Mike and Regina, who kept the Irish-American bar it had been. The back bar carries more than 150 whiskeys and the draft list runs past seventy. There are DJs Thursday through Saturday and the kitchen stays on until one in the morning.

Mon, 3pm to 2am. Tue and Wed, 11am to 2am. Thu and Fri, 11am to 3am. Sat, 11:30am to 3am. Sun, noon to 2am

A pub on Cedar Street a block south of the World Trade Center, covered wall to ceiling in shoulder patches left by the fire and police departments that sent people here after September 11. It was buried in dust that day and reopened the following year. Pints and bar food, and the patches are the whole decor.

Monday to Friday, 11am to 1am. Saturday, 11am to midnight. Sunday, noon to 1am

Open on 53rd Drive since December 5, 1933 and owned by the same family the whole time. The front is a long bar and the back is a dining space of booths doing steaks, oysters and shrimp alongside standard bar food. Saturday brunch is the thing the kitchen makes noise about. The bar runs to one in the morning most nights and to half past three on Friday and Saturday, which makes it the only thing in Maspeth still open after a late show.

Daily, 11am to 1am. Fri and Sat to 3:30am. Kitchen closes at 10pm, 11pm Fri and Sat

Opened at 45 East 18th in 1892 and still running a dumbwaiter that hauls plates from the basement kitchen to the upstairs dining floor, the oldest one working in the city. Tin ceilings above a long mahogany bar, and a burger that has not changed much. The upstairs is where you go when the bar is three deep.

Mon, 11:30am to midnight. Tue to Thu, 11:30am to 12:30am. Fri, 11:30am to 1am. Sat, 11:30am to 12:30am. Sun, noon to 10:30pm

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

Established in 1884, and the reason it still looks like 1884 is that the owner would not sell. A 47-story tower went up around it in the late 1960s and the original building lost its top two floors rather than the whole thing. Buddy Holly proposed to his fiancee here in 1958.

Hours are not confirmed by the operator

A small corner bar on St Nicholas that has been the default Bushwick meeting point since 2011. Draft beer and cocktails come in mason jars. Board games sit behind the bar, and a DJ plays some nights. The 2pm open is the useful part.

Monday to Thursday 2pm to 2am, Friday 2pm to 4am, Saturday noon to 4am

A basement-level beer bar on Bleecker that carries several hundred bottles from around the world, with old church pews for seating and initials carved into the tables. It is dark and loud and nobody is dressed for it. The kitchen is limited, so come for the beer list.

Mon, 4pm to 1am. Tue and Wed, 4pm to 2am. Thu, 4pm to 3am. Fri, 3pm to 4am. Sat, 1pm to 4am. Sun, 3pm to 12:30am

Opened in 2016 by people who already lived here, with a pub menu that happens to be entirely vegetarian and a yard out the back. Downstairs there is a smaller bar called PS that puts on comedy and art shows and music on its own nights. The front is a plain bar with a plain beer and cocktail list.

Mon to Thu, 4pm to 2am. Fri, 4pm to 3am. Sat, noon to 3am. Sun, noon to 2am

On the corner of Irving Place and East 18th since 1864, which makes it the longest continuously operating bar and restaurant in New York. The front bar is the original and the booths are worn, and O. Henry is supposed to have written The Gift of the Magi in one of them. It is open until 2am seven days a week.

Every day, noon to 2am. Kitchen closes at 11pm Sunday through Thursday and midnight on Friday and Saturday

An unreconstructed Irish bar on 40th that pours until four in the morning every night of the week and runs happy hour all day, every day. Televisions on, Guinness on tap, a back bar with seats and a few tables out on the sidewalk in warm weather. No one is policing what you are wearing.

Mon to Sat, 11am to 4am. Sun, noon to 4am

Open since 1936 on the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 19th, and still run by the McManus family, which makes it about the oldest family-held bar in the city. Dark wood, a long bar, booths at the back and a burger the place will argue about. It has shown up in Seinfeld, Radio Days and Law & Order, and none of that has changed anything about walking in.

Mon to Sun, noon to 4am

A bar on Grattan Street in a building that used to make caskets, opened in October 2010 by two people who had been playing in bands. Everything behind the bar is vegan, mixers included, and there is pizza late. Trivia and karaoke fill most of the calendar.

Monday to Thursday 4pm to 2am. Friday 4pm to 4am. Saturday 2pm to 4am. Sunday 2pm to 2am.

Up a staircase off West 32nd into a tented Korean street bar with soju by the bottle and corn cheese to go with it. It gets loud and it stays open until five on a weekend.

Sun to Wed, 5pm to 2am. Thu, 5pm to 3am. Fri and Sat, 5pm to 5am

A corner pub on Myrtle at the Clinton Hill end, with a full kitchen, a long bar and windows onto the avenue. It opens at 11am seven days and runs to 2am Monday through Saturday, with happy hour from four to seven. For anyone walking out of the Navy Yard it is the first real bar you reach.

Mon to Sat, 11am to 2am. Sun, 11am to midnight

A bar off the Graham Avenue L built out of salvaged wood, with a back patio and a window where Howlin' Taco runs Austin-style breakfast tacos seven nights a week. It stays open to 4am every night. Happy hour runs 5pm to 9pm on weekdays.

Monday to Thursday 2pm to 4am. Friday to Sunday noon to 4am.

A 7,000 square foot German beer hall on the corner of Market Street and Edison Place, with its back door facing the arena and long communal tables inside. Seating is open and reservations are not taken, so you walk in and find a bench. The kitchen stays open after every Prudential Center event lets out, which is the whole reason it is here.

Mon to Thu, 11am to 2am. Fri and Sat, 11am to 3am. Sun, open for Prudential Center events. Kitchen to 10pm, extended on event nights

A yard behind a garage door on Beach 87th Street with picnic tables, a bar, murals on every wall and Tacoway Beach serving Baja-style tacos out of the kitchen at the back. It runs art shows and markets alongside the drinking, and it is where a lot of the peninsula's creative trade ends up on a summer evening. It is open May through October only, so it is no help at all in the winter.

Seasonal. Daily mid-May to October, noon to 11pm, weather permitting. Tacoway Beach serves 11am to 8pm. Closed November to April

A narrow tiki bar in the storefront strip under the Beach 67th Street station, so thin that the bar runs most of the length of it. Frozen drinks, rum, a short beer list, and a back patio when the weather allows. It opens at four in the afternoon most days and noon on Sunday, and it stays open through the winter when a good deal of the peninsula does not.

Tue to Thu, 4pm to 11pm. Fri and Sat, 4pm to midnight. Sun, noon to 11pm. Closed Monday

Ruby's has been on the Riegelmann Boardwalk since 1934 and the walls are covered in framed photographs of Coney Island going back about that far. You drink at a long bar with the ocean on one side and the boardwalk crowd walking past on the other. It is beer and a shot and a burger rather than anything that needs explaining.

Daily, 11am to 9pm in season. Shut for the winter, roughly November to late March

Cheap pitchers and a free hot dog with every drink. The duct-taped red booths have outlasted most of the block around them.

Daily, 8am to 4am

Infused vodkas by the carafe with a piano going late. Brodsky and Baryshnikov backed it in 1986 and the late crowd still skews people who just finished working.

Mon 4pm to midnight. Tue to Fri, 2pm to midnight. Sat and Sun, 2pm to 1am

Down a few steps on 85th between First and Second is an Irish pub, with a pool table at the back and bowls of free chips on the bar. Guinness poured properly and nothing on the walls that looks like it was bought as a theme. It runs to four in the morning seven nights a week. Quiet enough on a weekday that the pool table is usually free.

Mon to Fri, noon to 4am. Sat and Sun, 11am to 4am

A Black-owned wine bar on Rockaway Beach Boulevard with a beer garden in the back and a kitchen running tapas until one in the morning. There is live music most weeks and a Sunday film screening in the garden, which is a fair indication of who drinks here. It opens at two in the afternoon and runs to four on Friday and Saturday, the latest hours on the peninsula.

Sun to Thu, 2pm to 1am. Fri and Sat, 2pm to 4am. Kitchen until 1am

It started as a bakery on the corner of Lenox and 120th and turned into a full Italian kitchen with a glass of wine attached. The sidewalk seating was among the first in Harlem and it is still the reason people sit there. There is jazz on Sunday nights.

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

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 brewery on Wheeler Avenue that makes its lagers and ales on the premises and pours them alongside wine and cider. It won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2024 and turns up in Westchester Magazine's yearly list, and neither has made it hard to get a seat. Snacks rather than a kitchen, so eat before you come.

Wed and Thu, 4pm to 10pm. Fri and Sat, 1pm to 10pm. Sun, 1pm to 7pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

Six thousand square feet on Lawrence Street with the tanks visible behind the bar, a long list of its own beer and a wood oven turning out pizza. It opened as Circa Brewing in 2016 and renamed itself Sound + Fury at the end of 2023 with a reworked beer lineup, same building and same brewery. It is big enough that a group walking in after a show does not have to wait.

Mon to Thu, 3pm to 10pm. Fri and Sat, noon to 11pm. Sun, noon to 10pm

Up the stairs on the second floor above Gage & Tollner on the Fulton Mall, fitted out like a ship's saloon with brass, dark wood and a long rum list. It takes no reservations at all and runs first come, first served, so going early is the way to get a seat. It is 21 and over after 7pm.

Sun to Thu, 5pm to 11pm. Fri and Sat, 5pm to midnight

A florist at the front of the storefront and a bar behind it, on the Cortelyou Road strip west of Kings Theatre. The back garden is the reason to come and it gets enclosed and heated once it turns cold, so it works in January as well as July. Seventy-odd whiskeys on the shelf, craft beer on tap, and bar staff who do not make a performance of either.

Mon to Thu, 3pm to 2am. Fri, 3pm to 3am. Sat, 1pm to 3am. Sun, 1pm to 2am. The flower counter runs Tue to Sun, 11am to 6pm

This is the old Tumulty's Pub address on George Street, taken over in 2018 and reopened under a new name with a good deal of the old menu kept. The bar runs the length of the front and the tables behind it fill with people who have just come out of something. It is the closest proper bar to both theaters and it does not need a reservation to stand at the counter.

Tue and Wed, noon to 10pm. Thu to Sat, noon to midnight. Sun, noon to 10pm. Closed Mon

A bar has operated in this 1887 corner building for most of the time since, and the Peter Doelger Brewing glass over the door is still there. The food is burgers and fish and chips at a price that has not chased the neighborhood. Closed Mondays, which catches people out.

Closed Monday. Tue and Wed 4pm to 11pm. Thu 4pm to midnight. Fri 2pm to 1am. Sat noon to 1am. Sun noon to 11pm

A bi-level bar on Spring Street, open since 1998 and about a mile from Newark Liberty, which is where the name comes from and where a lot of the custom comes from too. Sixteen screens downstairs and a quieter lounge upstairs. The kitchen is Portuguese under the wings and bar food, and the drafts are a dollar and a quarter during happy hour.

Mon to Wed, 11am to 2am. Thu to Sat, 11am to 3am. Sun, 11am to 2am

A dive on Waterbury Street with pool, a tented back patio and a kitchen doing Mexican-leaning pub food. Loud guitars on the stereo and art covering the walls. It opens at noon and runs to 4am from Thursday through Sunday.

Monday to Wednesday noon to 2am. Thursday to Sunday noon to 4am.

A bar built into the Arthur Avenue market in 2013 that pours Bronx Brewery, Gun Hill and other New York beer and lets you eat whatever the surrounding stalls are selling. There are long tables and it spills onto the sidewalk in good weather. When the market closes around it in the late afternoon the bar keeps going on its own.

Tue, noon to midnight. Wed, noon to 10pm. Thu, noon to 11pm. Fri, noon to midnight. Sat, 11am to 11pm. Sun, noon to 6pm. Closed Monday

A corner bar at Hoyt and Bergen inside the Boerum Hill Historic District, with a carved mahogany back bar, a pressed tin ceiling and a pool table through the arch at the back. There is no food, no television and no music loud enough to shout over. It is cash only, which is the fastest way to tell how little has changed.

Mon to Wed, 3pm to 2am. Thu to Sat, 3pm to 4am. Sun, 3pm to 2am

Wyckoff Avenue has had this bar off the Jefferson L since 2012, female owned, with coffee during the day and a yoga studio behind the bar. Karaoke, comedy and pool fill the nights. It opens at 3pm and closes at midnight.

Daily 3pm to midnight.

A small cocktail bar a few doors down the same block, open six in the evening until four in the morning seven days a week including holidays. Drinks are discounted between six and nine. New York Magazine called it the best bar on Staten Island, which has not turned it into somewhere you need a plan to get into.

Daily, 6pm to 4am. Discounted cocktails 6pm to 9pm

A Levittown corner bar on Gardiners Avenue with a pool table charging two dollars a game, burgers and Philly steaks out of the kitchen, and a door that does not shut until four in the morning. It opens at noon, so it is a bar you can be in at one in the afternoon as well as one at night. Free parking in the lot, which on Long Island is the point.

Daily, 12pm to 4am

A bar about twelve feet wide on Amsterdam Avenue, with a long mahogany counter, bookshelves above the bottles and drinks named after writers. It opens in the early afternoon and runs to four in the morning seven days a week. A few booths at the back are the whole of the seating.

Mon to Thu, 2pm to 4am. Fri, 1pm to 4am. Sat and Sun, noon to 4am

Three floors and a roof deck on West 28th, the surviving leather bar of the stretch that used to be full of them. A pool table is on the second floor and a DJ plays some nights. The roof opens when the weather allows. Nothing opens before ten except on Sunday, and it runs to four in the morning the rest of the week.

Mon, 10pm to 3am. Tue to Sat, 10pm to 4am. Sun, 5pm to 4am

A bar in a federal-era house at 326 Spring Street that has been serving since 1817, which puts it among the oldest continuously licensed bars in the city. The neon sign reads EAR because painting out part of the B on the old BAR sign avoided a Landmarks review. It does handmade burgers, and live music fills the place three nights a week.

Daily, noon to 4am

Twenty taps and a long can list in the Van Duzer Street storefront that used to be Martini Red, with Skee-Ball and arcade cabinets along one wall and growlers to fill on the way out. The kitchen runs pizza, wings and burgers until late. It is open until four in the morning every night of the week, which is unusual anywhere and almost unheard of on this island.

Mon to Thu, noon to 4am. Fri to Sun, 11am 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

A proper bar counter inside Moynihan Train Hall, run by the people behind the Dead Rabbit downtown. Irish coffee made to order and a Guinness poured properly.

Tue to Sat, 10am to midnight. Sun and Mon, 10am to 11pm

A dark bar on Troutman with a dollar pool table in the back and swing seats by the front window. Cheap beer, a jukebox and a patio. It has been the Troutman Street dive of record since it opened in 2013.

Open into the small hours, typically until around 4am on weekends. Confirm the opening time before an early start

An 1868 waterfront bar with the original mahogany still in place. Shepherd's pie and a Guinness, and nobody moves you along.

Daily, noon to midnight

Twenty-odd years on the corner of Berry and North 3rd, pouring cheap beer and putting out bowls of Utz cheese balls for nothing. The kitchen does chili dogs and Frito pie. There is a pool table, a dartboard and a jukebox that has not been curated by anyone.

Daily, noon 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

A narrow bar on Flushing Avenue in what used to be the Pocket Utopia gallery, fitted out with art deco salvage and a back garden. Matt Webber and Keith Cochran opened it in 2010 and the drinks are still built properly. It holds a few dozen people at most.

Daily 6pm to 2am.

An East Rutherford tavern founded in 1934 and still run by the Italiano family, built around a round bar you can sit the whole way around. The food is bar pizza on a thin crust, wings and Italian-American plates, and the beer list is longer than the place looks from the street. It opens at eleven in the morning and serves until close every day.

Mon to Thu and Sun, 11am to 9:50pm. Fri and Sat, 11am to 10:50pm

A large bar on the eastern end of Nassau Avenue, in the space the old Palace Cafe occupied, with a kitchen running until 10pm and the bar going to 2am on weeknights. It is the last real stop before Greenpoint turns industrial. Prices reflect that.

Bar Sun to Thu 3pm to 2am, Fri and Sat 3pm to 3am. Kitchen daily 3pm to 10pm

A bar on the ground floor of the Meyer's Hotel building at Peck Slip, with a long wooden counter that has been serving this corner of the waterfront since the 1870s. Hurricane Sandy flooded the block and closed it, and it came back. Happy hour runs 4pm to 7pm Wednesday through Saturday.

Wednesday and Thursday, 4pm to 11pm, kitchen closing 10pm. Friday and Saturday, 4pm to midnight, kitchen closing 11pm. Lunch Friday noon to 3pm, Saturday 11am to 4pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

A bar on Second Avenue in the 80s that keeps its kitchen going until 3am and the bar until 4am. Cocktails and beer, burgers and fried chicken sandwiches late, eggs benedict and flapjacks at weekend brunch. There is a patio out back where leashed dogs are welcome. Walk-ins are the norm; only groups of four to ten take a booking.

Mon to Fri, 11:30am to 4am. Sat and Sun, 9:30am to 4am. The kitchen runs to 3am

Live piano most nights inside the Hotel Edison, with a rum list that goes deep. No cover to sit and listen.

Daily, noon to 2am. Music most nights from 9:30pm

A proper English pub on 39th with cask ale pulled on hand pump, which almost nothing else in this part of Midtown does. Dark wood, a long bar, and a rotating cask list you have to ask about because it changes. Food is pub food and it is fine.

Mon to Fri, 11:30am to midnight. Sat, 3pm to midnight. Closed Sunday

A working brewery on Douglass Street with a long bar under a skylight and a year-round yard out the back. Ninth Street Espresso runs the coffee counter inside from eight in the morning, and the kitchen starts in the late afternoon. Beer is sold to go from a separate shop counter on the sidewalk.

Mon to Sat, noon to midnight. Sun, noon to 11pm. Coffee counter 8am to 3pm. Kitchen from 4pm or 5pm

Walter Alston opened this as a pool hall in the early 1950s and his daughter Linda Greer runs it now. The jukebox plays seventies R&B, the Christmas lights and the birthday banner stay up all year, and a shot with a beer is five dollars. Thursday is snacky hour, when the wings and hot sausages are free.

Open daily into the early hours. The bar publishes no fixed schedule, so call before a very late arrival

A bar and grill on New Dorp Plaza right beside the Staten Island Railway platform, which is where the name comes from. Breakfast from nine, a long bar, burgers and wings the rest of the day. Trains going past the window are part of the deal.

Mon to Thu, 9am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 9am to 11pm. Sun, 9am to 9pm

A basement on West 23rd that has been done out as a trailer park since 2000, with wood panelling, garden gnomes and Christmas lights left up all year. Tater tots, corn dogs and very large frozen margaritas. Nothing about it has been updated since.

Mon to Fri, 4pm to 2:30am. Sat and Sun, from noon, closing about 2:30am

Named for Tubby Hook, which is what the Inwood waterfront at Dyckman Street was called before anyone called it Dyckman Street. Burgers, a full bar and a regular crowd that the staff knows by name. Trivia on Tuesday and karaoke on Thursday.

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

Family run since the 1980s on the corner opposite McCarren Park, with a pool table and cheap beer and the ball game on. It opens at 11am and does not close until 4am, every day of the week. Nothing about it has been updated to match what went up around it.

Daily, 11am to 4am

The pub that anchors Stone Street, the cobbled block where the Financial District does its drinking outdoors. Tables run down the middle of the street in warm weather and the bar keeps going until 4am every day of the year. It has been there since 2003 and the crowd turns over from office workers to whoever is still out.

Monday, 4pm to 4am. Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 4am

A bar with a stamped tin ceiling and an oak counter from the late 1800s, on the corner of North Moore and Varick. There has been a bar in the building since the 1880s and the current operators named it Walker's in 1987. The kitchen does a burger until 10pm and the bar keeps going until 3am.

Bar Monday to Friday, noon to 3am. Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 3am. Kitchen daily 4pm to 10pm, lunch weekdays noon to 4pm, brunch weekends 11am to 4pm

A beer bar on Washington Avenue with a long back yard that dogs are welcome in and a draft list in the high teens. Nobody is working the door and nobody is checking a list. It is the kind of place where the same people are there on a Tuesday at six and a Saturday at ten.

Mon to Thu, 5pm to 11pm. Fri, 3pm to 11pm. Sat and Sun, 1pm to 11pm

A long bar on West 23rd between Eighth and Ninth, going since 1997, with pool tables at the back and a jukebox somebody is always feeding. Its own site describes the regulars as the point and says they are there every day until four in the morning. Cheap beer, no cover, nobody at the door. It sits on the same block as the 24-hour diner, so the two work as a pair after a late set.

Mon to Sun, until 4am. Opening time varies by day and the operator does not post it

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

A veteran-owned brewery and taproom on East Post Road, built into a corner storefront with the tanks visible from the bar. The house list runs to a dozen or so of its own beers, and the kitchen turns out smash burgers and wings rather than pretending food is an afterthought. It is the closest door to the comedy club of anything in this batch.

Mon and Tue, closed. Wed and Thu, 4pm to 10pm. Fri, 3pm to 12am. Sat, 12pm to 12am. Sun, 12pm to 8pm

A bar on East 161st that opened in 1927, the same year as the original Stadium across the street, and has been feeding and watering the same crowd since. It is a long wood bar with televisions and photographs everywhere. The menu starts with wings and burgers. Sandwiches fill out the rest. On game days it is packed solid and there is a line on the sidewalk. On any other day you walk in and sit down.

Daily, noon to midnight