No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Brother Jimmy's (East Side)

1485 2nd Ave. · at 77th St.
Upper East Side, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Stax NYC

Last licensed here under this name: 2016–18.

Checked October 18, 2026.

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Overview

Tall ceilings, a corner location, clean taps, outstanding BBQ and Texas sized portions.

History

Twenty-five percent off with a Southern ID

This was the original Brother Jimmy's, which opened at 1572 First Avenue in 1988, moved down the block in 1990 and in 2000 settled around the corner on Second Avenue between 77th and 78th¹. Time Out filed the chain under faux-thentic Carolina honky-tonks for meat, ball games and blasting tunes, and at this flagship a Southern ID got you 25 percent off on Wednesdays². By December 2016 Ziggy's, a seafood-focused Mexican place with tiki torches and a wall-mounted marlin, had taken over a former Brother Jimmy's BBQ space on the Upper East Side, with Brother Jimmy's owner James Goldman among the partners³. Ziggy's has since closed too³.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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