No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Half Pint

76 W. 3rd St. · at Thompson St.
Greenwich Village, Manhattan

In 2026

Still pouring

Checked October 16, 2026.

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Overview

Beer lovers tend to fall into two groups connousiers and frat boys. The beer selection here is excellent (including cask conditioned ale), but thanks to an NYU location and giant beer towers for the tables the crowd leans far into backward baseball cap land.

History

Before the beer towers, a three-ring circus

Long before the beer towers, 76 West 3rd Street was home to Ernie's 3 Ring Circus, from the 1940s into the '60s¹. The music hall singer and male impersonator Ella Shields played there in April 1943, according to The Billboard¹. The Half Pint opened at the same address in June 2007, and it's still there². It remembers its predecessor with Ernie's at The Half Pint, billed as an ode to the old place¹.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

What's nearby

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